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Fanciful Plan To Narrowly Beat Editor On Paper

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99%9Exact Match!
noun

• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

32%4Beat narrowly, with "out"
noun

• the boundary of a surface

• a line determining the limits of an area

• a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object

• the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

• a slight competitive advantage

• the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something

verb

• advance slowly, as if by inches

• provide with a border or edge

• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

• provide with an edge

32%3Narrowly beat
noun

• a disease of poultry

• a minor nonspecific ailment

• a small hard seed found in some fruits

• a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

• a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface

verb

• kill by firing a missile

• hit with a missile from a weapon

• defeat thoroughly

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