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vet

adjective as in practical

noun as in old hand

noun as in veteran

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It was like witnessing the last two weeks of the life of a blind and toothless dog you knew the vet was just itching to destroy.

Instead, the time has been spent setting up a system to vet potential recruits.

The City of Phoenix does not now have a single homeless vet; they have constructed apartments for them.

Imagine being an Iraq vet who lost friends securing a place such as Fallujah only to see ISIS now seize it.

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

She was such a picture that I asked who she was, and found she was a high school mistress, the niece of old Cooper, the vet.

She's an Irish girl—was governess to some rich Jew in Edgbaston, and she married a vet.

Freckles tried to think connectedly, but there were too many places on the trail where the Angel's footprints were vet visible.

I wrote at once to the vet, telling him to telegraph "Curable" or "Hopeless," and to act accordingly.

We had the vet out from Westchurch two or three times, but there was nothing much he could do.

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On this page you'll find 416 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vet, such as: accomplished, capable, competent, mature, professional, and qualified.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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