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cower
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Until our lawmakers pass bold, meaningful action, more children will cower behind desks, texting their family “I love you” as shots ring out just beyond the classroom door.
Rather than blame Haitians or any other immigrant group for these structural issues, it is essential not to cower to these fears but to shine the light on institutions that make life difficult—such as the decades of corporate deindustrialization—and the people who should remedy it: the government.
Will that spur the Iranians to turn up the heat, both to puncture Israel’s complacency and to assure their own allies that they don’t cower in the face of direct attack?
I would cower in my room or the hallway, shoveling Froot Loops into my mouth until the apartment was no longer an office but our home again.
She said everyone was here tonight to show Trump “exactly how we deal with bullies. … We don’t cower, we don’t turn away. We show up. We speak up.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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