Strain
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In the best of times it puts
strain
on our resources.
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She took our order, and then went to the couple in the booth next to us, and she lowered her voice so much, I had to really
strain
to hear what she was saying.
So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.
I gave her medications to relieve the
strain
on her heart.
Now the odd thing is, is that once you've been bitten by this mosquito, and you've had this disease, your body develops antibodies, so if you're bitten again with that strain, it doesn't affect you.
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