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took

adjective as in removed

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In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.

They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.

“They sure took the Sony thing seriously,” Attkisson said dryly.

In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.

An additional 12,000 took to the streets in other German towns.

After relievedly giving the pistol to the nearest soldier, he stumbled quickly over to Brion and took his hand.

He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.

We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.

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

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