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noun

concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.

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As a writer, I tried mainly to stick close to the concrete particulars of the events and the performances I was describing.
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Finally, I hope we can share concrete actions with those who attend, and want to help in the global LGBTI liberation struggle.
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It was the most common and concrete opportunity to do unto others as you would wish to have done unto you.
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What had seemed to be a theoretical and almost mythical project is just about to take concrete form.
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D.C., but it is not likely to result in any concrete and meaningful action.
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He will find that “Ice” is a concrete word, and “Slippery” indicates a quality of “Ice” and of other things.
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Then crouching low, he crossed the room to where the strainer top of the sewer drain was placed in the concrete floor.
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He crossed the room to the concrete ramp that twisted up to the second story.
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When Dr. McAllister drove into his yard he found a boy washing the concrete drives as calmly as if nothing had happened.
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But here it is arranged in temporal sequence, thus giving us a concrete view of the man and his relation to this society.
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