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Maro and his colleagues collected intact, freshly fallen fruits lying beneath trees where chimps had recently been feeding.

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The league table is not lying at the moment, and it never does.

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Cawley described how one day she was lying in her bath in "absolute agony" and decided to look for support groups in the area and found Endometriosis UK.

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Following her first conversation with another teenager, she concludes her notes with one word: “lying.”

They were then seen lying on the ground before being directed back inside the building.

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

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