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burner

noun as in torch

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Of the five, Gish is her least favorite, a girl every bit as clever as she was — a reminder of what she’s permanently put on the back burner.

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Trailing a Brink’s big rig on Intestate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley, the seven men used burner phones so their signals couldn’t be traced to them.

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The galley-style kitchen had two burners that only sometimes worked and was a wreck.

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The quarterly results could push trade concerns to the back burner once again.

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Some people, however, go as far as creating burner accounts just for shopping to keep the cesspool of targeted ads separate from their main profiles where they interact with family and friends.

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

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