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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A litany of nits, ringworm, fleas and unmentionables ... But as the weeks and months passed, everything changed.
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Careful examination will reveal the tell-tale nits attached to the hairs.
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His nanny had a cure for nits.
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I look a right nit in that uniform.
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Nobody wanted to share a desk with the only girl in the class with nits in her head.
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She had to work in that awful place and get nits and steal and be beaten for wetting the bed.
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The nits are shiny and firmly attached to the hair.
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You can't mistake nits for dandruff.