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pat

adjective as in relevant, suitable

adverb as in exactly, fittingly

noun as in tap, touch

noun as in small slice or slab

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Example Sentences

Their teacher, Kim Jong-sook, 58, gathered the children for pictures with Im, who wore raised brogues and a rosebud on the lapel of his suit and beamed and patted their heads.

“Then he patted her on the leg and gave her his hand to hold,” the memo noted.

They patted him down and found a gun in his underwear.

“I used to do security for a hotel in the city centre. I was armed with an AK-47 and was tasked with patting people down at the entrance.”

From BBC

But the notion of something extraordinary faded from the eighth delivery of the day, when Ollie Pope patted a return catch back to Sajid.

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

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