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prise

noun as in lever

Strongest matches

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Curran nicked off Mitchell but was unable to prise out another before New Zealand reached the winning line.

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The US has sought to prise the app's US operations away from Chinese parent company ByteDance over national security concerns.

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Although it was recovered, the crown was damaged, and Laurence des Cars told the senators that it had probably been crushed as the thieves prised it from its display case.

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However, Schmidt's tenure ended with two losses and he was unable to prise the Bledisloe from the All Blacks.

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Liverpool are interested in the 25-year-old Sweden forward but know they would have to break the British transfer record to even stand a chance of prising him from the Magpies.

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

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