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metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.600 | One result: Mr. Bushkin 's law firm here plans to dissolve ; much of its business was Carson-related . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.614 | Cannons Engineering , a closely held concern that was convicted several years ago for criminally falsifying incinerator reports it filed with the state of Massachusetts , was dissolved as a corporation , EPA officials said , but has been technically `` revived '' for purposes of litigation . |
metaphorical | target | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3516 | He says he will work to improve the quality of education black children receive , and that he will target certain black school districts for special support . |
metaphorical | played | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2439 | Proceso has played a key role in making possible the once-unthinkable displays of disrespect that Mr. Salinas has faced . |
literal | destroying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.505 | He did n't set a deadline for destroying PCBs , but said movable disposal units might be leased from the U.S. to help eliminate those stored in warehouses across the country . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1938 | The parts , which included a tail assembly for the F-104 and a key component of the A-7 's stability system , were critical items , and Navy fliers could have been killed if the parts were used , the prosecutor said . |
metaphorical | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1636 | By endorsing bank authority to underwrite corporate equities , the senators gave the Fed a defense against claims that such a move would fly in the face of congressional opposition . |
literal | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1418 | Mr. Cicerone and his colleagues slogged into flooded rice paddies a few years ago to take methane measurements . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1438 | The glutted oil market could soon be flooded with even more Persian Gulf crude . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1396 | They included fixtures required by the company and the salaries and expenses of four assemblers who flew in from Italy to set up the store . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.188 | None of the Democratic leadership in the House or Senate was notified about the move , unlike when the U.S. ordered troops into Grenada in 1983 or last October when U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf attacked an oil platform that had been converted to a military facility . |
literal | rains | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2698 | Mr. Syiem says there are times when it rains heavily , day and night , for two weeks running . |
metaphorical | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2993 | Not only did this technique let sleeping elephants lie , as the `` Peaceable Kingdom '' exhibit demonstrates , it resulted in some very striking images . |
literal | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1410 | If the area were flooded , these mud-embedded bombs might loosen and float to the surface . |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1011 | Many traders and analysts said they think yesterday 's gains will soon evaporate . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2965 | She was up all night in a tent ; the next morning , she plopped into the raft , feeling nauseated and trying to sleep as she bounced over rapids . |
metaphorical | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2942 | As simple as that sounds , Joseph Duffy , the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the case , will have a tough time proving the charges to a federal court jury without also putting the panel to sleep . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2974 | To keep the puffed-up style looking puffy , it was advisable to sleep with the hair wrapped in toilet paper and to forget about using shampoo . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.782 | Then it finally comes to him: `` It 's a good reason to drink beer . ''/'' |
metaphorical | melts | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2213 | The problem it would confront is those last decades -LRB- 2030-2050 -RRB- of the scenario , when the surplus melts away to zero . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.365 | They began from scratch , amateurs learning to sing and dance and act , working up to 18 hours a day , almost every day . |
metaphorical | besieging | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.272 | The marauding huns of the takeover game are besieging ever-larger corporate kingdoms . |
metaphorical | kills | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1972 | Centralization , on the other hand , kills motivation and crushes the human spirit . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.616 | Haiti dissolved an agency that administered major development projects . |
literal | killing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1964 | His pal Shorty -LRB- John Mahoney -RRB- is an apparently gentle man , driven to killing blacks in cold blood in the middle of the night by the death of his son in Vietnam and by the loss of his farm . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3458 | After rattling off Bell Atlantic , BellSouth and Southwestern Bell , he stumbled . |
literal | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.385 | `` I was so happy that I practically danced back into the house , '' Mr. Popejoy says . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2964 | She lost weight , could n't sleep , and did n't work again for six months . |
metaphorical | played | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2435 | After two hours of this and more , Mr. Grappelli finally came on stage , wearing the loudest plaid shirt you 've ever seen , and impishly , sweetly played circles around everyone , never for a second showing his age . |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.153 | While proposing such cuts to attack the current deficit , Mr. Jackson is vague on how the expensive new social programs he proposes would pay for themselves . |
literal | evaporates | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1051 | While gas wells usually produce liquid as well as gas , `` it evaporates , '' he said . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3538 | He code-names companies targeted for possible acquisition with B-words , like batman , bellini -LRB- `` a wonderful combination of champagne and peach juice '' -RRB- and baccarat -LRB- the gambling game -RRB- simply because `` it struck me as an interesting strategem . ''/'' |
literal | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.411 | Twenty-eight thousand buildings were leveled in the quake , but a few years later , 20 , 500 new ones had been built , and people of the reborn city were dancing in the streets . |
literal | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.302 | You have to build up the equipment to a certain power level , test it , cool it down , then possibly repair it , and it may take months to bring it up again . ''/'' |
literal | plant | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2362 | `` The new irrigation tunnel has allowed us to plant 6 , 000 willow trees and 600 apple trees and to earn money for the education of our children , '' she says , tears welling in her eyes . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.618 | In an extraordinary act of courage , the archbishop of Manila , Jaime Cardinal Sin , has just stated publicly that the Philippine bishops ' own social-action organization was so `` highly infiltrated '' that it would have to be dissolved . |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3596 | Thus , Japanese companies would have to fight it out with foreign rivals that are targeting the same niche , including Fokker B.V. of the Netherlands , British Aerospace PLC , MBB and Boeing . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2940 | Almost one-third of the heavy smokers sleep less than six hours . |
literal | rains | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2701 | `` If it rains three inches , we 'd go down 30 cents , '' said Mickey Luth , a soybean analyst at Shearson Lehman Hutton , Chicago . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1484 | Industry consultants predict groupware will flourish because personal-computer software that helps individuals work better has n't noticeably increased the productivity of groups . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.435 | The department maintained that fighter aircraft , for example , `` must be fast enough and maneuverable enough to evade and destroy enemy aircraft . |
metaphorical | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.455 | An example: Last fall , Joseph Biden 's campaign was destroyed after a leaked videotape showed similarities between his speech and one given by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock . |
metaphorical | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1035 | Several issues were still sought after in the wake of last week 's bid for Consolidated Gold Fields , but the majority of the takeover froth has evaporated , dealers said . |
metaphorical | besiege | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.252 | For their part , though , Chicago aldermen have been too busy functioning as art critics to besiege the statehouse in Springfield on behalf of the team , and state legislators have shown more inclination to clown than to move quickly or positively . |
metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1499 | Baseball flourished in certain parts of England and Wales before World War II . |
metaphorical | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2384 | Last week , after a team had gone through its paces , one of the handlers forgot to remove a stick of dynamite that had been planted in the suitcase . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1881 | According to Indian government estimates , more than 2 , 800 people were killed by the escaping gas and thousands were injured . |
literal | rain | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2660 | But Champion International Corp. may soon have to curtail production at its Canton , N.C . , paper mill if it does n't rain soon . |
metaphorical | target | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3521 | The agency uses company-kept injury records to target inspections to work sites where injuries are most likely to occur , a system that Rep. Lantos contends provides irresponsible firms `` a premium for cheating , '' but that OSHA believes is the most effective use of its resources . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.779 | The new Johnnie Walker pitch has attractive young women gushing about the wonderful young men in their lives who drink Johnnie Walker . |
metaphorical | stumble | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3451 | People have been predicting Paramount would stumble ever since `` Beverly Hills Cop '' in 1984 . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1383 | For the first three months of 1988 , the airline said it flew 2.95 billion revenue passenger miles , up 15.2 % from the 2.56 billion miles a year earlier . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1469 | And the court rejected the attempt to foster patriotism through compulsion as an insult to the American tradition: `` To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds . ''/'' |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1594 | A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile . |
metaphorical | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2973 | This weapon could be extremely powerful , perhaps ideal for the European battlefield -- simply put attacking troops to sleep . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2191 | The father and grown son walked slowly , their long , ebony shadows in sharp contrast against the tawny strips of switch grass , as the young hunter 's golden retriever melted in and out of sight in front of them . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.274 | Britain , expected to be the European growth `` locomotive '' at more than 3.5 % , recently raised interest rates again to cool off its `` overheating '' economy . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1430 | So far , the outside money has n't flooded in ; Owens-Illinois and affiliates still account for 95 % of the mutual funds ' total assets of $ 267 million . |
metaphorical | pumped | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2607 | Japanese investors pumped in $ 190 million in this year 's first half . |
metaphorical | stumbles | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3503 | `` From an issuer 's perspective , this is a market that occasionally stumbles over the truth but quickly picks itself up and hurries on as if nothing has happened , '' said Joseph Fichera , a vice president at Smith Barney , Harris Upham & Co . , paraphrasing Winston Churchill . |
metaphorical | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2969 | The daughter of actress Tippi Hedren -LRB- the former model who became Alfred Hitchcock 's leading lady in `` The Birds , '' but whose career reputedly was dashed when she refused to sleep with him -RRB- , Ms. Griffith grew up in Hollywood 's fast lane . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.623 | Last week after months of litigation , the company was officially dissolved , and the trademark was sold for $ 8 million to a Stamford , Conn . , investment firm . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.434 | The chief substitutes will likely be variations on this chemical structure but with less chlorine , the element thought to destroy atmospheric ozone . |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1005 | But party leaders ' hopes of writing a broadly worded document began to evaporate , as early versions of platform planks were cluttered with specific promises . |
literal | kills | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1973 | Federal researchers are exploring a possible new biological weapon against cells infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are studying a chemical that seeks and kills AIDS-infected blood cells without harming healthy ones . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.620 | In the extreme we have revolution , where the existing social contract is dissolved . |
literal | killing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1954 | A 19-year-old 737 owned by the airline was grounded after the top of its fuselage was torn off during an April 29 flight , killing a flight attendant . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1392 | Secretary of State Shultz recently flew to Geneva , for example , to `` resolve ambiguities '' over INF verification . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1629 | And Mr. Gorbachev 's proposal to remove aircraft -- which easily can fly back to Central Europe during a crisis -- would be meaningless unless they are destroyed , Mr. Chalmers says . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2945 | But most will think , ' Haven 't I got enough to worry about already? ' and fall right back to sleep . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1682 | In a flying start last year , checkers gave thumbs down to junk priced at $ 10 billion . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3536 | By hitching a ride on these proteins , drugs can be very narrowly targeted to attack diseased cells , Mr. McCamant says . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3487 | The Geneva talks stumbled on two issues: U.S. insistence that Moscow promise not to arm the Afghan regime after withdrawal and Pakistan 's demand that an interim government be established , including Afghan resistance fighters . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2633 | Instead of buying assets and pumping up bank reserves last spring , the Fed should have been heeding the run-up in gold and commodities and playing the sell card . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2672 | Coincidence perhaps , but within 48 hours , Ms. Fox says , it rained here . |
metaphorical | plowed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2478 | Though the company 's cash flow looks healthy on paper , one analyst said , much of it has to be plowed back into operations . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1660 | Three former scholarship winners now fly border patrol for the U.S. Customs Service . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3568 | Union Pacific , for instance , gained 1 3 4 to 64 on speculation that it might be targeted by acquirers who want to obtain the company 's petroleum holdings . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3476 | In 1936 a German chemist , Gerhard Schrader , stumbled on a phosphorus compound extremely poisonous to insects . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1400 | But Cameloot was just another loser among the entries that flooded the offices of Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. during a contest to name its planned $ 290 million castle-theme resort . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2391 | On Friday , an analyst at another major commodity firm said he expects no more than 60 million acres to be planted to soybeans . |
metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1500 | But entertainment flourished , with audio and video items logging the biggest quarterly increase in consumption -- $ 23.2 billion . |
metaphorical | withering | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3736 | The nation 's cattle herd is withering . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3463 | But the future of the bill remained unclear as the Senate stumbled forward on its version of the measure without the leadership of Lloyd Bentsen , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1449 | `` If the S & P would 've closed , sell orders would 've flooded New York '' and sent the stock market sharply lower , said one harried trader overlooking the raucous S & P trading pit . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2623 | But as long as Washington keeps pumping in those subsidies , the situation will remain stabilized , even improving a bit . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2507 | Judges often ca n't review voluminous fee applications as they pour in . |
metaphorical | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.887 | Long renowned with East Germany for its relatively respectable economic performance , Czechoslovakia has lately been displaying worrying symptoms of the ills that have , in fact , long been eating away at its core . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2184 | Lord Bryce noted in 1888 , `` The conjunction of the forces of rank , wealth , knowledge , and intellect '' in a great metropolis like New York `` makes such a city a sort of foundry , '' a key place where `` opinion is melted and cast , '' and `` easily and swiftly propagated and diffused throughout the country . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1453 | `` We 've tried to set up a barrier against such people , '' says an official at one institute that has been flooded with applications . |
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] | TroFi.o.160 | By spreading the benefits of economic development into depressed regions , Massachusetts economic policy has attacked structural unemployment . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1595 | A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile . |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3575 | Also , our regulatory conceptions would suggest monetary-policy tools of the European central bank be designed so that they enabled effective targeting of the monetary variables without recourse to quantitative controls -LRB- or other direct interventions in financial markets -RRB- . |
metaphorical | destroying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.507 | Mr. Berg 's murderers were bent on destroying what they call ZOG -LRB- Zionist Occupied Government -RRB- . |
metaphorical | ate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.113 | Richard DeVane , president of the company 's fossil systems business , said it appears that oxygen in the fresh air combined with either sulfur , zinc or chloride to produce an oxide that ate away the boiler wall 's iron-oxide protective coating . |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1003 | But confidence in that forecast began to evaporate on March 4 when the Labor Department reported a much larger increase in employment last month than anyone had expected . |
metaphorical | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2519 | A military group led by two men described as supporters of former ruler Ne Win took power in embattled Burma , and angry citizens armed with homemade weapons poured into Rangoon 's streets to reject the new regime only hours after it was announced . |
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] | TroFi.o.881 | Beyond that , conditions on board were so vile that `` the sailor was at greater risk eating his meals aboard than fighting . ''/'' |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.871 | You 'll probably want to eat a crab salad . ''/'' |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.637 | This was one of the lesser-known reasons why President Zia abruptly dismissed the whole cabinet and dissolved the national assembly on May 29 . |