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A Tenor Is Currently Helpless

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adverb

• floating freely; not anchored

• off course, wandering aimlessly

adjective satellite

• aimlessly drifting

• afloat on the surface of a body of water

23%8 In a pitifully helpless manner
adverb

• in a hopeless resigned manner

23%9 Rendering someone helpless or immobile
adjective satellite

• that cripples or disables or incapacitates

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