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whisker

noun as in facial hair

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noun as in slight or narrow amount

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All the men have been whiskered to resemble their historical models.

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Before that, he was third in the Kentucky Derby by a whisker while being on the receiving end of some bumping down the stretch by Sierra Leone.

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Rodgers comment by Rodgers comment, those Desmond whiskers would have to started to dance.

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I look at the slender brown hound next me, grey whiskers poking out round his nose.

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"Use of any force to maintain order and discipline is just a whisker away from when we used to hit people at school, frankly."

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

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