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Perseverance carried Ingenuity with it, a tiny offspring clinging to the under-carriage of the rover during the seven-month, 300-million-mile journey, the white knuckled landing through Mars’s atmosphere and the frigid Martian nights since.

Gentrifying Bombay Beach doesn’t seem probable, he said as I peered through the cage, wind whipped and white knuckled.

He “white knuckled it” when he got there.

“The water started rising higher and higher on my legs and I realized that I couldn’t feel it. This was once a place that felt like home, but I had no feeling until the water hit about my belly button. In that moment, my hands were white knuckled on the armrests, and I was terrified,” Mallory said.

From Forbes

They entered the three-game series against Pittsburgh a little more white knuckled thanks to San Francisco's eight-game winning streak and a three-game skid of their own that ended with a win over San Diego on Sunday.

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

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