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back and forth

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vacillating

oscillating

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back away from what was said

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backpedal

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back them up

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lend support

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back-up plan

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contingency

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bad acts

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indiscretions
transgressions
improprieties

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bad at

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inept

not well suited for

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bad effects

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adverse effects

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bad idea

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ill advised

inadvisable

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bad luck

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misfortune

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bad mouth

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throw aspersions on
deride
disparage
denigrate

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bad quality

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leaves much to be desired

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bad situation

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plight

predicament

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bad smelling

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putrid

rancid

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bad taste

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in poor form

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bad tempered

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irascible

cantankerous

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bad timing

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untimely

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bad weather

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inclement

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badly conceived

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misbegotten

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bag of tricks

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repertoire

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balance

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equilibrium

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bare

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austere

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barely

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scarcely

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barely know her

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we’re on short acquaintance

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barely perceptible

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liminal

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bark is worse than his bite

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he’s just blustering

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based on

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predicated on

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basic instinct

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primal urge

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be discouraged

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lose heart

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be good enough

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should suffice

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be hospitable

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extend hospitality

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be offended by

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take exception to

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be optimistic

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strike an optimistic tone

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be quiet

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keep your counsel

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be seen as

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constitute

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beat around the bush

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flutter round it

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beaten badly

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routed

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become president

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assumed office

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become a victim of

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fall victim to

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become more accepted

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gain currency with

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become public

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came to light

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becomes

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it rendered

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before mentioned

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aforementioned

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beg

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implore

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begin again

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resume

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begin

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commence

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beginner

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novice

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beginning (are beginning)

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incipient

emergent

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beginning (the beginning)

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the inception
the onset
the emergence

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behave

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conduct oneself

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behavior

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conventions

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behind the scenes

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the inner workings of

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being attacked

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beset upon

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belief

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notion
conviction
sentiment
tenet

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believability

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credence

plausibility

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believable

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plausible

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believe

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subscribe to

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believe in

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adhere to

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beneficial

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salutary

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benefit

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would profit by

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besides

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quite apart from

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best

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unparalleled
unrivaled
incomparable

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best way to

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how best to

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betrayal

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duplicity

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better

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preferable

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between

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among

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between us

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between you and me

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biased

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partisan

tendentious

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biographical movie

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biopic

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birth

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nascence

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birthplace

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provenance

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biting

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acerbic

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bitter

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acrid

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bitterness

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rancor

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black sheep

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pariah

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blame

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implicate

apportion blame

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blaming yourself

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self reproach

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bland

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insipid

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blatant

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overt

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blend into

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assimilitate

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block

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thwart

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blood feud

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vendetta

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bluffing

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posturing

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boastful

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vaunting

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bodily

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corporeal

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bogug

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without merit

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bold

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brazen

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boldness

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temerity

audacity

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bombard

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barrage

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bond

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a rapport

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boos

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a chorus of dispain

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bored of (incorrect usage)

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bored with

bored by

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boredum

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tedium

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boring

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tedious

mundane

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born with

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graced with

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bossy

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imperious

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both

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both of which

respectively

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bothered by

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encumbered by

burdened by

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bottomless pit

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abyss

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brag

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boast

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brainwash

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inculcate a sense of

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brave

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undaunted

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break apart

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fracture

disband

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break open

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breach

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break up

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fragment

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brief

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cursory

fleeting

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briefly

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in passing

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brightness

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luminosity

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alive with

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brimming with

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bring about

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engender

elicit

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bring to life

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animate

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bring together

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assemble

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bring up for discussion

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broach the subject

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brings out

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accents

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broad range of

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eclectic

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broken down

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derelict

in disrepair

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brown-nosing

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fawning

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brush aside

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dismiss

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buffer

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hedge against

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built-in

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inherent

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built on

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rests in part on

is predicated on

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bullied

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hectored

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bum

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indigent

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bum-looking

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unkempt

harried

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bunch of

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accumulation of

repository of

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burden (a burden)

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an encumbrance

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burden (to burden)

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to encumber

to weight heavy on

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busy

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preoccupied

absorbed in

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busy thinking

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pensive

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busybody

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a yenta

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but

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with the caveat

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butt in

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horn in

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by chance

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happenstance

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by itself

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intrinsically

in its own right

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by the way

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incidentally

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by your own decision

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by your own volition

of your own accord

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busy place

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swirl of activity

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