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lip

noun as in edge, brink

noun as in insolence

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“All their faces. Stoic. Weeping. Biting their lips so hard.”

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I spent days pressing a light-up toy when we said his name to draw his attention and babbled incessantly in his face so he could copy my lip patterns.

She wears Hedda’s lovely mask with confidence — red lips, lush cheekbones, cool demeanor — and periodically allows it to slip.

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Not so the state’s other Democratic leaders, who for years have paid lip service to making New York more hospitable for the wealthy and businesses while they do the opposite.

In recent months, she described on Instagram her body shakes, dizziness, “nausea creeping up my throat,” and “eyes and lips drier than the Sahara desert.”

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

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