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flies
verb as in take to the air, usually employing wings
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verb as in run or pass swiftly
verb as in escape, flee
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Warm weather means an uptick in flies and other insects, drawing out the spiders who feast on them.
The researchers also used fruit flies as a model to explore how CPD mutations affect hearing.
The video shows officers moving out of the way as several open fire; dust flies off the truck cab, and the sound of bullets hissing by can be heard.
The airline flies to 40 destinations worldwide, including 37 states and 12 countries, according to its website.
Even more strikingly, fruit flies genetically engineered to carry the same four naked mole-rat-specific mutations in human cGAS lived longer than flies with the normal version of the enzyme.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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