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squeaker

noun as in cliffhanger

noun as in near miss

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In 2020, Trump won two-thirds of the vote in Greenlee County while losing Arizona in a squeaker he falsely maintains was stolen.

Smart lost a couple of limited series supporting squeakers in 2016 and 2020, when she competed with great performances in “Fargo” and “Watchmen.”

The Californians Against Proposition 1 campaign said the measure wasn’t a “huge” win for Newsom, but “an embarrassing squeaker of a victory.”

It’s a squeaker, but “Spider-Verse” likely prevails for the simple reason that more people saw it.

Traditionally, Iowa caucuses are squeakers, so close that Democrats failed to produce definitive results in the chaotic 2020 contest.

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

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