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passage

noun as in excerpt from document

noun as in authorization; enactment

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She recalled that when she became pregnant with her first child, in 1955, she refused to accept “folklore” about pain as a rite of passage.

When Google first announced passage ranking, the company called it passage indexing.

Some scenes are connected by a rippling piano riff that suggests the passage of time, though we’re never quite sure if days, weeks or months have gone by.

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Time marches on for all of us, and even if we refuse to acknowledge what we see in our own mirrors, we rarely hesitate to mark its passage in the faces of our actors.

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When an odor—say, vanillin, the dominant chemical in vanilla—drifts into the nasal passage, it grasps onto its preferred receptor.

She fails to appreciate the congressional and constitutional obstacles Johnson had to overcome to win passage of the bill.

One of the rites of passage for every young political reporter is to listen to the elders tell stories about campaigns past.

Going to The Ball, signing up for JDate, downloading JSwipe are all modern-day rites of passage.

In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.

That morning, he sat in the windowsill and began his day like every other: reading the Bible passage that coincided with the date.

Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.

That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light.

She heard through the half-open door Mr. Orgreave's slippers on the tiles of the passage leading to the stairs.

This work is now lost, and we know it only by the abstract given by Photius in the passage quoted.

Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.

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On this page you'll find 179 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to passage, such as: clause, paragraph, portion, quotation, reading, and section.

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

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