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Creeps
noun
Plural of creep
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It would be nice to think that, as Jowell says, "this ridiculous ageism that creeps out like a bad smell will just disappear", but to anyone who senses themselves being "granny-tracked" at work – subtly counted out of the running – it probably doesn't feel that way.
But in the 20th century, it was writers in particular who took advantage of the fact that collectors were increasingly regarded as creeps.
The Holocaust narrative is about how oppression and fascism creeps up by targeting and blaming communities".
(Naturalist William Beebe admitted the touch of the octopus gave him the creeps).
Still others questioned what might happen in the summer when the temperature creeps close to 40 degrees: "As residents, what smell if any should we expect?" But Forbes said a full environmental impact assessment had been conducted and the project had been given the all clear: "It actually won't have a negative impact on the environment, and certainly there won't be any odour or anything".
"The focus of the attraction is the bus creeps forward so the customers have plenty of opportunity to blast away at the zombies," Sergeant Crawford Ward told the Associated Press.
Even so, some imprecision creeps in and the final numbers are slightly off from the beginning ones.
Bigger and bolder gangs of self-righteous creeps are gathering outside clinics, saying their prayers, trying to stop abortions, and I thought we'd won that one ages ago.
The title creeps ever closer to a return to Stamford Bridge.
But later on, doubt creeps in.
A DARK herd creeps across a grassy plain, wades a shallow lagoon and clambers to safety.
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