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life preserver

noun as in flotation device

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Landon Knack has been a human life preserver for the Dodgers, an unsung rookie right-hander who has helped keep the rotation afloat when seas get a little rough.

“They are dressing her for the deck and putting her life preserver on.”

With no parachutes, no life preservers, no rafts and no radios, the four planes guided by eight U.S.

He threw all the life preservers he could reach to other men, then pulled himself further up the sloping deck, away from the water now angrily smashing its way through windows and doors.

From BBC

The measure “was simply a life preserver that was being thrown or could have been thrown to schools to stem the crisis,” he said.

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

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