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tissue

noun as in cloth

noun as in cobweb

noun as in muscle

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Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in tendon

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Exposure happens whenever saliva or tissue from a rabid bat enters the body through a scratch, bite or contact with a wound, mouth, nose or eyes, county officials said.

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During the war she’d earned legendary status in the Soviet spy service by sneaking past FBI agents with atomic bomb plans hidden in a tissue box.

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In Finley’s mind, this work is the connective tissue between so many different types of lineages, both artistic and familial.

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The researchers suspected that the immune system might be attacking these intruders and causing collateral tissue damage.

Since then, the veteran consumer-product executive has helped the units make gains, but could only do so much selling Huggies diapers, Kleenex tissues and Scott paper towels.

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