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Dexterous Editor Picked Up Newspaper

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adjective satellite

• skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands

38%6Picked at, picked at, picked at
noun

• an excited state of agitation

• an angry disturbance

• a quarrel about petty points

• a rapid active commotion

verb

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• care for like a mother

33%7 Named after newspaper editor Horace Greeley
noun

• United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)

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