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By the early aughts an older, wiser Dolours is disillusioned with the meaninglessness of so much bloodshed and pondering what it means to have so many spent matches poking her from inside her pockets.

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Television footage showed a bomb-defusing robot creeping up to the bag and poking it until it popped with a bright flash.

As she went downstairs she could see her mother with her hand on the front door as if trying to close it and a "gun tip" poking through the open door.

From BBC

It comes a year after Halloween revellers in Shanghai went viral for donning costumes poking fun at the Chinese government and its policies.

From BBC

Police arrested him after noticing the tip of a rifle poking through shrubbery a few hundred yards away from Trump who was inside the golf course.

From BBC

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

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