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sheer

adjective as in almost vertical; very steep

Strongest match

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"I'm really, really good at hiding it, but behind closed doors it's sheer panic," she explains.

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North Korea touts success on nearly all fronts, in part due to the sheer volume of tests it has carried out in past years.

One problem is the sheer magnitude of these promises.

While “The Perfect Neighbor” is certainly one of the finer examples of true crime documentaries in the last decade, its potency is hampered by the sheer extent of the trauma in the film.

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But the sheer horizontal and vertical reach of the progressive mindset in newsrooms, the entrenched nature of their ideological skew, will militate against a successful resetting of their compass.

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

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