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lowdown

noun as in chapter and verse

noun as in dope

noun as in intelligence

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But she performs all the characters herself, and when she launches into song with her exquisite voice, moving from a range of high bell-like clarity to dusky lowdown in both original material by Irving and tweaked standards, the show is most fully alive.

Unlike in the moments after Reagan and his predecessor, Gerald Ford, were shot, you probably didn’t turn on the nearest TV or flee to the closest newsstand to get the lowdown.

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“He gave me the lowdown,” Crawford said.

BBC Sport has the lowdown on all the things you need to know.

From BBC

Samantha Morton’s nomination for “In America” was her second; her first came in 2000, for “Sweet and Lowdown” — a movie that starred Sean Penn, who would win that night for “Mystic River.”

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

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