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  • 81strike — 1. verb 1) the teacher struck Mary Syn: hit, slap, smack, beat, thrash, spank, thump, punch, cuff; cane, lash, whip, club; informal clout, schmuck, wallop, belt, whack, thwack …

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  • 82strike — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. hit, smite, beat, thump; give, deliver, deal; affect, touch, impress, occur to; blast; lower, take down; collide, bump; conclude, agree upon; attack; collide; walk out, quit, rebel, cancel; print. See …

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  • 83brick — [brik] n. [ME brike < MDu < breken, BREAK (in sense “piece of baked clay”) & MFr brique < OFr, of same orig.] 1. a substance made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc …

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  • 84Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 — Launch Complex 39 redirects here. For the Proton launch complex at Baikonur, see Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200. Launch Complex 39 An aerial view of Launch Complex 39 Launch site Kennedy Space Center Locat …

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  • 85Alberta Union of Provincial Employees — (AUPE) Founded 1977 Members 68,000 Country Canada Key people Guy Smith (President) Bill Dechant (Executive Secretary Treasurer) …

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  • 86OU812 — Studio album by Van Halen Released May 24, 1988 …

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  • 87Michael Woods (producer) — For other people named Michael Woods, see Michael Woods (disambiguation). Michael Woods is a UK producer and remixer of various dance music genres, including electronic, trance and jazz. He has worked under the monikers Warrior, Accadia, M1 and… …

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  • 88depart — [v1] leave, retreat abandon, abdicate, absent, beat it*, blast off*, cut and run*, cut out*, decamp, desert, disappear, emigrate, escape, evacuate, exit, get away, git*, go, go away, go forth, hit the bricks*, hit the road*, hit the trail*, make… …

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  • 89strike — [v1] hit hard bang, bash, beat, boff, bonk, box, buffet, bump into, chastise, clash, clobber, clout, collide, conk*, crash, cuff*, drive, force, hammer, impel, knock, percuss, plant*, pop*, pound, pummel, punch, punish, run into, slap, slug,… …

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  • 90brick — [[t]brɪk[/t]] n. 1) bui a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln and used for building, paving, etc 2) bui such blocks collectively 3) bui the material of which such blocks are made 4) any block or bar having a similar… …

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