very thing, the
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Snook was dealing with the kind of calculations that mothers have to make all the time, the very thing the show itself is addressing.
From Los Angeles Times
“I insisted to everyone that it was unscrupulous to distort the truth in reports but those who rose through the ranks were those who did that very thing,” the voice over says in Russian.
From Reuters
It reveals a powerful sense of a community feeling forgotten, with emotions stirred by the very thing - the barge - designed to reassure voters that asylum seekers are not living in taxpayer-funded luxury.
From BBC
He had that very thing the FBI was trying to bring down.
From Seattle Times
To love "Emily in Paris" would be to love the very thing the show tells us to hate.
From Salon
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