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carrot

noun as in plum

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The deals personally linked U.S. and Gulf leaders, unlike the usual carrots and sticks of formal foreign policy.

For the moment he has put his carrots away.

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“This policy is all sticks and no carrots, and focused on U.S. domestic politics, while China is the number one trading partner of South America.”

When Gemini for Home rolls out, you can say, “Set a timer for roasted carrots”—Gemini will ask appropriate follow-ups and start a countdown.

They had another eight albums between then and 2009, including Rings Around The World, which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001 and featured Sir Paul McCartney eating carrots and celery.

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

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