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Pushed to her wits’ end, Linda can no longer suffer those limits, even if she knows that it’s against the same code she swore by when becoming a therapist herself.

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“Don’t be looking for trouble,” Leroy tells Charlotte, who responds, “There’s going to be trouble anywhere we go. That’s the country you swore your life to defend.”

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President Ahmed al-Sharaa was once aligned with Islamic State before switching allegiances to Al-Qaeda, then ultimately swore off extremism as he and his forces fought to control Syria.

Ms. King grudgingly allowed production to proceed but swore “that she would never attend a performance, and would not promote the show, or be involved in any fashion. Never, ever.”

Notably, Johnson swore in Patronis and Fine back in April during a pro forma session — congressional meetings in which no legislative business occurs — just a day after their elections.

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

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