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spine

noun as in backbone

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“It’s for people with shoulder impingement or spinal compression issues. It takes all the compression off your spine and allows you to perform a squat under resistance.”

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A spider can flick off irritating hairs from the backside of its abdomen, which feel like fiberglass or minute cactus spines.

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In war he states the brutal fact, then the explanation: “Both legs stuck out awkwardly. He had been hit in the spine.”

"I fractured lower vertebrae in my spine and cracked about five ribs and broke my wrist".

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Meanwhile, Del Toro amps up the action, starting the film off with a ghastly great sequence in which Elordi’s Creature punches a sailor so hard his spine snaps into a backward somersault.

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

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