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clothesline

noun as in hearsay

noun as in line drive

Strongest match

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Inside the Airbnb, he was surprised to find a clothesline instead of a dryer.

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The long, thin spaghetti shape, he says, was an especially efficient way to dry the pasta, by hanging the strands on structures similar to clotheslines.

Other first responders also offered accounts — of babies beheaded, or hung from a clothesline, or killed together in a nursery, or placed in an oven – which were later debunked by Israeli reporters.

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A strip of a mud-floored foyer packs in a kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope beds and fraying clotheslines.

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Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.

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