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ropes

noun as in leverage

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On Thursday, community leader Thembile Botman told the BBC that volunteers had used ropes and seat belts to pull a body out of the mine.

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I saw people doing calisthenics on the rings and ropes and the volleyball fields buzzing with competition.

When he first came into power in 2016, he was a political outsider, and, at least for a while, he surrounded himself with veteran political advisers and staff who showed him the ropes and constrained his actions.

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"We've got a lot of young boys still learning the ropes of international cricket," he said.

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He then worked in his family's export business for a few years, learning the ropes.

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

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