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tent

noun as in portable canvas shelter

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On a recent afternoon the four, plus Darragh Hettrick, Nia’s partner, were gathered in a living room that felt like a mix of an antique store, a tarot tent and an apothecary haven.

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He recalls seeing the tented graveside set-up at a family funeral and asking his mom "are we going to the circus?"

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In a phone call with Salon, he described the area as Russian-speaking, and the tent near where Kruglov was found was “very quiet” and “very private.”

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Democrats also feel comfortable taking the fight to Republicans on a "tent pole issue" central to their brand, says American University politics professor Matthew Foster.

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The wives and children are arbitrarily detained in sprawling desolate tented camps that amount to open-air prisons.

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

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