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Then there’s the vicious social-media harassment of innocent athletes being targeted by gamblers—an epidemic that only continues to explode with the betting app boom.

He lived in south London during the some of the vicious and violent religious conflicts of the 16th Century, making his music against this troubled background.

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For the next several hours, Nick and Honey serve as unwitting pawns in the older couple’s clever, but vicious, mind games.

Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside.

The fans won't come for you in the same vicious way they came for the unwanted Martin - their sights are firmly fixed on those people above you - but best not anger them all the same.

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

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