cleave
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Mr Cleave said since the group had received the request by phone last week they had been practising the shanty in readiness, but he could not disclose which song it was.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
But that’s all we know,” said Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a grassroots gun-rights group.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024
In 1985, Dr. Cleave, an environmental engineer, flew aboard the Atlantis, helping to operate its robotic arm during other astronauts’ spacewalks.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2023
John Dickerson and Kris Van Cleave for CBS News: “How a government shutdown could cause chaos at airports”
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2023
Cleave, klēv, v.i. to stick or adhere: to unite:—pr.p. cleav′ing; pa.t. cleaved or clāve; pa.p. cleaved.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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