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foil
noun as in contrast
verb as in circumvent, nip in the bud
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Great tits flew to fame in the 1920s after birds started opening the foil lids of milk bottles to feed on the cream within.
As she sings of her foil, in my favorite line of the song, “She peels me back like I’m her cabbage.”
“Friendships can be a mirror for yourself,” she says, calling close pals “a foil for ourselves.”
However, some trucks seem extra sensitive – on my tour I see a couple foiled simply by rough roads.
Newsom brushed off the ad as “politics,” but Rexroad said the governor’s approval ratings in swing districts in California make him an easy foil for the GOP.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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