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So you hunker down and give in to the alpha male.

Mahan socked money away during the summer months and hunkered down in the slow times, before things started picking up around the New Year.

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Instead of making a run for it, he resolves to hunker down until the heat is off.

Gee Gee Rosell, who lives on Hatteras Island, stopped by her store Buxton Village Books on Wednesday to unpack a new shipment and manage orders from residents before they hunker down.

The assailant was shot dead by British police but not before he stabbed and killed a man and tried to barge into the synagogue itself, where worshipers were hunkered down.

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

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