repelling

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• Madison and Monroe ordered cannons to the banks of the river to prepare to repel the next wave of invaders.

• As in any conflict, sometimes the effort to repel an infection can itself be damaging.

• In other number news, Vesselin Dimitrov used another well-known bridge — connecting polynomials to power series — to quantify exactly how certain numerical solutions to polynomials work to geometrically repel each other.

• A water-repelling compound keeps the web from absorbing water.

• This is what leaves you immunized and ready to repel the real virus if it turns up.

• None of this should be read as anti-male or man-hating, jokes about man-repelling aside.

• Harkness saw the last ones vanish as Chet drove down through the repelling area.

• You hold yourself aloof from your school-mates, repelling every offered familiarity, yet I have seen you weep after such an act.

• The rebels had exhausted themselves, even, more in their assaults than the Union men had in repelling them.

• Years were between; and there was a division of circumstance, more repelling than an abyss or the rush of deep wild waters.

• Part of this was owing to her education, part to the necessity of repelling sometimes the advances of conceited coxcombs.