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blanket
adjective as in comprehensive
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noun as in cover, covering
Example Sentences
Supreme Court threw out Biden’s original proposal to offer blanket forgiveness of up to $20,000 in student debt, the Education Department started work on a less expansive proposal for blanket debt relief and debt reduction.
She notes, "For me, if I have the absolute worst day or I'm sick as a dog — as the expression goes — the thing that makes me feel best is to go home and literally climb into bed under a blanket with my dog."
A few days ago, Nasa shared satellite images of a blanket of smog engulfing parts of northern India and neighbouring Pakistan.
A blanket commutation would realize Mr. Biden’s anti-death-penalty stance and move the United States further along the path to abolition.
To offer one other example, Biden could learn from what Republican Illinois Gov. George Ryan did in 2003 when he emptied his state’s death row by issuing a blanket commutation to all 167 inmates.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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