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His grandmother senses the peril in Solomon’s overconfident business strategy, especially as he brushes off warnings that sound familiar from the other side of the Great Recession.

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A beauty salon owner who didn’t want her name used raves about the city’s openness and brushes off any suggestion that it’s unwelcoming for her or other Latinos.

He brushes off the question, pointing to the non-famous who connect with him via his tour or his books or Calm.

So, Sae brushes off old journalism skills to unravel the mystery, exposing corruption and conspiracies living at the center of South Korea and the deeply ingrained harmful political and financial structures holding up the nation.

But Meloni brushes off any insinuation that she is nostalgic for Mussolini, writing in her autobiography, “I don’t hold the cult of fascism.”

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

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