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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
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Regardless of the undertow of danger, Johnnie would not give back the diaphragm case.
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Sylvie had raved, raved with that undertow of intensity which always made her seem to be speaking the truth.
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The wave had a great deal of undertow .