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bay

noun as in alcove in wall

noun as in howl

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At least on this sunny festival day, as incarcerated musicians play cheerfully in the courtyard, that violence feels temporarily at bay.

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Coast Guard base across the bay in Alameda County, where the Department of Homeland Security has begun staging additional forces.

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Armed resistance groups control most of Rakhine and Chin States, and are holding the military at bay, and even driving it back in places.

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“There’s a steel grate, and the water runs underneath the grate, underneath the tunnel, below PCH, and right onto the sand and right out into the bay. This is a real public hazard.”

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Our literature and other traditions tell us we have longed for but also feared a secular savior powerful enough to put these fears at bay.

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

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