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wearing

adjective as in tiring

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She was wearing a blue sweatshirt, blue pants and white-and-black New Balance shoes.

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Their players, however, know with the school’s two big wigs also wearing coaching hats, they always need to be on their best behavior.

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With a pot of glue, a blade and a keen eye, Manal al-Saadani repairs tattered banknotes -- a necessity in the Gaza Strip, where the cash in circulation is wearing out.

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If you failed to buy him socks last year, buy him whatever socks he happens to be wearing right now.

That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.

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

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