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the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.

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The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
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Several Republicans won primaries in 2014 by running as ideologically pure conservatives who wanted new leadership in the House.
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But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.
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AIDS insanity: When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.
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A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.
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There he gave orders for the car to be put into running condition for the following morning, and returned to the hotel.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The cantonment was split into two sections by an irregular ravine, or nullah, running east and west.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Father Gaspara was about to ask another question, when Ramona appeared in the doorway, flushed with running.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The text of the amendments designed to carry out these recommendations will be submitted by the Board at an early date.
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