pull
Example Sentences
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The pull of home can be strong – even when it is a place you can't remember.
From BBC
Ryabov said the ever-present danger has led parents to pull them out of the program.
He pulls long shifts of guard duty in the city center and still lives with his family in a working class Damascus suburb.
Meanwhile, Leeds and Forest have found far better form to pull away from the bottom three.
From Barron's
The unusual motions of galaxies and the stars within them suggest that large amounts of unseen matter are exerting gravitational pull.
From Science Daily
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