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cast away

adjective as in shipwrecked

verb as in fritter

verb as in maroon

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The act also says anyone who “shamefully casts away his arms, ammunition, tools, or equipment or misbehaves in such manner as to show cowardice in the presence of the enemy” faces the same penalty.

It’s an issue of confidence, with Emily Mann directing her cast away from Williams’s assured dialogue and toward their characters’ flailing.

The assertion supported the defense's attempt to cast away blame by creating distance between Trump and certain details in his vastly inflated financial statements.

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There was no record of where they went, she said, and she was haunted by the comment of a Russian administrator who told her the Ukrainian children had been cast away “like kittens.”

“They must cast away centuries-old notions of themselves as God’s chosen people,” he wrote.

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

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