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tugging

noun as in quick pull

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“Great Gold Bird” can be heavy, tugging at our hearts even as it becomes more mystical — its themes ricocheting among grief, science fiction and spiritualism.

While the jobs came quickly, the undertow of racism in the industry was always there, tugging at him.

Based only on a brief moment of Walz tugging on his son’s hand, commentators declared Walz an abuser with a secret rage problem.

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Even if a patient were “tugging for breath, literally suffocating in my exam room” and needed to terminate their pregnancy, by law she couldn’t help them, she explained.

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Scientists found this mysterious gravitational tugging everywhere.

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

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