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She’d like to see Trump straighten out the country’s dysfunctional immigration system.

McCoist, a captain on BBC's Question of Sport for 11 years, previously had two operations to straighten his fingers but the issue has not been fixed.

From BBC

“When I was in middle school, I might have straightened my hair, and now I’m making it as big as I can — redefining the beauty standards that were put on me,” Thoms says.

"On my very first period I was curled up on the floor of my parents' bedroom, screaming, unable to straighten my spine," she said.

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“Rate hikes won’t straighten out the supply chain, or speed up ships, or stop a virus that is still causing lockdowns in some parts of the world.”

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

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