lines
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general appearance or outline
a car with fine lines
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a plan of procedure or construction
built on traditional lines
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the spoken words of a theatrical presentation
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the words of a particular role
he forgot his lines
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informal a marriage certificate
marriage lines
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luck, fate, or fortune (esp in the phrase hard lines )
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rows of tents, buildings, temporary stabling, etc, in a military camp
transport lines
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a defensive position, row of trenches, or other fortification
we broke through the enemy lines
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a school punishment of writing the same sentence or phrase out a specified number of times
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the phrases or sentences so written out
a hundred lines
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to understand or find an implicit meaning in addition to the obvious one
Example Sentences
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The firm plans to eventually shift more advisory work to the platform from its existing one, meaning Claude will span the workflows of two of KPMG’s three service lines.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Social media, however, and its cabal of influencers operate along many of the same lines as their reality TV forebears.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
NextEra owns hundreds of power plants and transmission lines as well as Florida Power & Light.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Their work included cell culture lines, primary human blood cells, and tissue samples.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
With a stick the Raven Leader stirred the fire, and Torak saw the lines of pain deepen on either side of his mouth.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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