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She is doing all she can to keep him calm, covering the windows with blankets to block out the noise and the flashes of light, and turning up the volume on the television.

From BBC

And that was before Pyongyang fired a banned intercontinental missile on Thursday, on the longest flight recorded yet – after turning up the rhetoric against Seoul for weeks.

From BBC

The Trump campaign hopes, by turning up the misogyny, they can get a lot of those infrequent male voters to turn out.

From Salon

"I remember him as a 14-year-old turning up to audition on The X Factor, and blowing us away singing Sinatra. He just loved to sing," he wrote.

From BBC

"I remember him as a 14-year-old turning up to audition on the X factor and blowing us away singing Sinatra," he wrote alongside a picture of the pair.

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

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