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raising
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- he asked members of the audience to raise their hands if they had been to his show before
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- since she was only two when her mother died, the girl was raised mainly by her aunt
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- a proposal to cover the library's red brick with vinyl siding raised a mighty ruckus with those favoring historical preservation
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- the lawsuit raised old resentments that had never been completely extinguished
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- the mattress will fit into the moving truck only if we raise it on its side
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- raised a memorial on the site of the historic event
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- carpentering,
- fashioning,
- forging,
- framing,
- hammering,
- handcrafting,
- manufacturing,
- molding,
- producing,
- shaping
- beginning,
- coining,
- creating,
- generating,
- inaugurating,
- initiating,
- innovating,
- inventing,
- originating
- reassembling,
- rebuilding,
- reconstructing,
- redeveloping,
- reedifying
- [British],
- retrofitting
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- raises ducks, geese, and other exotic fowl ultimately destined for the dinner table
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- the multiplex raised the ticket price
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- beefing (up),
- reinforcing
- (also reenforcing),
- strengthening
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- he was recently raised to lieutenant in the fire department
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- one member of the tour raised the subject of appropriate attire for visits to sacred sites in the Holy Land
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- too afraid to raise an objection
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“Raising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raising. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
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