arresting

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He had a terrible disorder I have sometimes succeeded in arresting -- I attack the cause instead of the symptoms, which is the old practice -- and so that detained me.

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  • The cockeyed perspective she'd absorbed from the surrealists served her well in the arresting, absurdist images she captured during the Blitz: a crushed Remington typewriter; a male mannequin standing incongruously in a heap of curbside rubble. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Equally arresting is the sequence where our desi dude, superhero Drona, meets the arch-villain Riz, played by Kay Kay Menon, for the first time. —  India eNews
  • Of all the study's findings, the most arresting are the responses ranked by type of Jew. —  Signs of the Times
  • An inspection of the lyrics chanted by Flo Rida show him to be an adherent to rap's most arresting, advance-to-the-rear conventions. —  Can't Stop The Bleeding
  • Then police would stop arresting, then the legislature would be forced to change the laws. —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
 

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arresting:   arrest ·  arrests ·  arrested
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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