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After an expensive and acrimonious primary battle among Democrats, the general election race for the seat was sleepy, bordering on dull.
A case of massive oppositional mendacity that borders on the hilarious — except that many people believed and continue to believe him, all evidence to the contrary.
Hezbollah said it clashed with Israeli troops near Lebanon's southern border on Monday and fired rockets at a naval base inside Israel near Haifa.
His descriptions of crime in L.A. often border on the dystopian and echo conservative pundits who use the city as a punching bag.
The standard advice of only borrowing your projected salary out of college is getting further out of reach, bordering on completely out of touch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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