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in the way

SEE SYNONYMS FOR in the way
1

See in one's way, def. 3.

2

in the way of. In the nature of, as in He was getting nothing in the way of pay, or They had nothing in the way of an alibi. [Mid-1600s]

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Words nearby in the way

in the teeth of, in the throes, in the twinkling of an eye, in the unlikely event, in the wake of, in the way, in the wind, in the wings, in the works, in the world, in the worst way
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