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- chopping wood with a finely ground axe
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- an escorted tour of the White House and its surrounding grounds
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- evicted the tenants on the grounds that they violated the lease
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- I'll meet you at the parade ground in two hours
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- opposed to the notion that religious law should be used as a ground for civil law
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- anchorage,
- bed,
- brace,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- framework,
- infrastructure,
- mount,
- prop,
- shore,
- stay,
- substratum,
- substructure,
- support
- assumption,
- justification,
- premise
- (also premiss),
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- rationale,
- supposition,
- theory,
- thesis,
- warrant
- stuck the shovel in the ground and went inside for a glass of water
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- take her picture against a blue ground in order to bring out her blue eyes
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The Floor/Ground Is (Lava)
The Floor/Ground Is (Lava)
A game (and meme) in which players must avoid touching the floor
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“Ground.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground. Accessed 14 December 2019.
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The first known use of ground was before the 12th century
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