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expulsive

adjective as in eliminative

adjective as in eliminatory

adjective as in excretory

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Some parts of the birth story I can only hope to forget: induction, complications, “failure to progress,” interventions, fetal distress, “poor expulsive effort,” tearing, episiotomy, hemorrhage.

In Los Piletones, too, residents were against being handed the official deeds, says Dos Santos – “because that could mean that people start selling their land, and then the neighbourhood is at the mercy of the market. And the market will have an expulsive effect on the poorest. The poorest people could start losing their homes and going to live in places even worse than this.”

In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.

In his spirited account of the coalition years, Clegg revealed how his relationship with Michael Gove soured to the point where Gove banned Lib Dem special advisers from entering the Department for Education, let loose his “somewhat unhinged advisers” to brief against Clegg, and on one particularly expulsive occasion “hid in the toilet to avoid speaking to David Laws”.

This is the expulsive part of Goldberg's personality and art: the paradoxical point where regulation meets — and briefly blends — with chaos.

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

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