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Despite a shoot-to-kill policy on the border, thousands still leave each month.
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No further details were immediately available, including the time of the shoot-down.
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This optical arms race presents a problem for makers of point-and-shoot cameras.
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That is, the defender may shoot to kill; the offender may not.
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Monstrous creatures writhe about the crags; the men shoot some of them.
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Many believe we may be welcoming the young sprout sooner than expected.
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Something like, 'Gosh, Belle, I hope you made your famous brussels-sprout dish.'
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The campanile has a round top and flowers sprout from the masonry.
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Some, like the chestnut and poplar, sprout profusely; others sprout very little.
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Then, before the sun began its long journey away, they would sprout.
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Some even require a good hot fire for their seeds to germinate.
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The seed of genius planted in his nature was beginning to germinate.
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Where any vitality remained in the nut, it was sure to germinate.
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Peas like cool soil; in fact, they can germinate in 40-degree soil.
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Birds carry up seeds and grains, and these germinate in moist thatch.
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Not that any given spud is ever such a paragon of form.
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Tom made the spud synthesiser for recent play The Potato Stamp Megalomaniac.
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Borr Drilling Frigg has a spud can diameter of approximately 60 feet.
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The dredger cuts by swinging on a center spud 16 in.
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Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.
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Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings.
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Sharp surprise and a palpable fear bourgeoned upon the Captain's face.
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The FAO received about half of the emergency funding it requested last year, Bourgeon said.
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They have bourgeoned, but they have not blossomed.
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For the tulips have not bourgeoned yet.
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Beneath their crowns and handkerchiefs burgeonedforth plaits of false hair decorated with coral and silver ornaments.
Usage of pullulate in English
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If Councillors detrain, demons pullulate about their feet, eating the echoes of their steps.
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There is no fear that the professors who pullulate all over the Baltic Plain will overcome the Latins in logic.
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A thousand schemes, a thousand possibilities sprang to life in his pullulating brain.
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Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contention.
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On the roadbed there is a man whose front pullulates with scrawny arms, each from a corpse or an amputation.
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The great towns lie, enormous, pullulating, millioned in the plains on either side; they push their limbs up far into the valleys.
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In the pullulating salon of Washington string-pullers vying to claim credit for masterminding presidential victories, the Ax-man has more right to claim credit than most.
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At any rate he was safely outside the monument, with its pullulating population of midgets creeping over its carpets and lounging insignificant on its couches.