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And, he said with a laugh, “we’d shoot ducks at night by it.”

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Anything less, and the opposition could override Milei’s vetoes and block his often-used presidential decrees, effectively making him a lame duck.

"As a northern comprehensive girl arriving in Oxford in 1993, I was a duck out of water."

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But most of us had come to expect our leaders to duck, deal and dissemble until it would be too late.

Justification enough, I thought, to enjoy my duck breast with beetroot and Malabar pepper to the fullest.

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

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