lines
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general appearance or outline
a car with fine lines
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a plan of procedure or construction
built on traditional lines
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the spoken words of a theatrical presentation
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the words of a particular role
he forgot his lines
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informal a marriage certificate
marriage lines
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luck, fate, or fortune (esp in the phrase hard lines )
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rows of tents, buildings, temporary stabling, etc, in a military camp
transport lines
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a defensive position, row of trenches, or other fortification
we broke through the enemy lines
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a school punishment of writing the same sentence or phrase out a specified number of times
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the phrases or sentences so written out
a hundred lines
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to understand or find an implicit meaning in addition to the obvious one
Example Sentences
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A separate statement from worker organizations and unions representing Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft employees urged their own employers to maintain the same red lines in any contracts with the Pentagon.
Anthropic’s hesitance to give the blanket approval and desire to maintain red lines banning uses for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons frustrated some administration officials, people familiar with the conversations said.
The actor who currently stars in NBC’s comedy series “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” also admits that he doesn’t always remember the “Harry Potter” lines fans quote to him on the street.
Hours later OpenAI announced a deal with the Pentagon subject to the same red lines.
Should prices blow past $90 a barrel and start hitting companies’ bottom lines, he added, “The phones will start to ring.”
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