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stroke

noun as in a blow, a striking

Strongest match

Strong matches

noun as in accomplishment

noun as in seizure

Strongest matches

verb as in pat lengthwise

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Being overweight or obese increases your risk for developing health problems, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers.

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He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.

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If You're Glad I'll Be Frank imagined the speaking clock as a real woman speaking live, her internal monologue utterly at odds with the deadening repetitiveness of endlessly intoning "at the third stroke..."

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My caregiver experience started when my dad had a devastating stroke in 2019.

Sarah Frazer's three-year-old daughter Leah developed cerebral palsy after experiencing a stroke when she was only eight weeks old.

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

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