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Recent Examples of Synonyms for combing (out)
staving off
Verb
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His being here—scraping, sanding, painting, sitting across the table from us for dinner most nights—had been one of the joys of the past few weeks, a way of staving off the tension of moving and the sameness of the routine with the kids and the meals and the bedtime stories and all the rest.—
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025 -
And no longevity-claiming therapy is considered fruitful without sound research that confirms efficacy after following a diverse cohort of humans for decades to see if the therapy is associated with extended life or staving off chronic disease.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Combing (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/combing%20%28out%29. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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