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jawbreaker

noun as in candy

Strongest match

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“I always describe the bags as being like beautiful white jawbreakers with saccharine colors all over them,” says Liana Satenstein, 35, a writer who focuses on the vintage market.

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Most people give little thought to Earth’s deep interior, thinking of our home planet as simple nested layers, like a jawbreaker hard candy.

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“You could get the giant jawbreaker, the one the size of a tennis ball, and you’d have it for a year.”

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I feel like such a baby about the jawbreaker lump in my throat that feels like it’s gonna dissolve and spill outta my eyes in liquid form.

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I see those floppy ears and jawbreaker eyes and I’m a puddle of hot bone broth, like anyone else.

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

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