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heel

verb as in follow

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News of a potential deal comes on the heels of another big SPAC transaction in electric planes, for Archer Aviation.

On the heels of this latest round, nextmv is working to simplify its product.

The round comes also on the heels of the company raising $21 million just in June of last year.

Meanwhile, Marie drifts to the stove like an exquisite zombie—she’s still draped in the slinky liquid column of a dress she wore to the premiere, though she’s kicked off her heels—and starts to cook up some mac and cheese.

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The legislation comes on the heels of other calls for action.

His goal: to make the perfect (and absolutely comfortable) high-heel, with the help from Nike CEO Mark Parker.

The high heel has gone through endless aesthetic changes throughout the years.

Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball.

Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.

The high heel is revolutionary, and evolutionary, as an engrossing Brooklyn Museum show reveals.

The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.

And with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.

With which magnanimous sentiment he turned on his clumsy heel, and entered his apartment again.

He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.

But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heel, such as: attend, and obey.

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

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