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swathe

verb as in drape

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verb as in enfold

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America’s small business community is recovering from the pandemic, but large swathes of it haven’t yet recovered.

From Axios

Plus, unlike a lot of other campgrounds, you won’t be crowded among other campers—each site gets its own swathe of wilderness to itself.

It may make it harder for the developer to purchase the plot, Graulau says, but it’s not a guarantee that the swathe of land that has given her neighborhood coastal access for generations won’t end up being built into condos for newcomers.

From Time

As well as enabling researchers to tackle a broad swathe of new questions in neuroscience, the authors hope the device could eventually help restore the independence of people suffering from paralysis.

These are innovations that can be applied to broad swathes of the economy and can have profound impacts on society.

Here and there a swathe of mist lay on the plains below; but up on the hills all was comparatively clear.

As the distension of the belly had been very great, a swathe was applied, and drawn gradually tighter as the water was evacuated.

Like Tristan, they hate the day as the destroyer of poetry, and swathe themselves in the trembling chiaroscuro of twilight.

"He said it made the swathe better there than any where else," they reply.

Sometimes his wives caress his body, ply him with delicacies or swathe him in perfumed garments.

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

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