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blow-up
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
highest, next
VERB + BLOW-UP
bang, banging, heard, played, resolves
BLOW-UP + NOUN
doll, sea-monster
PREP.
from, in, with
Definitions
adj
1
Inflatable; able to be blown up.
The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
noun
1
An explosion (physical or emotional).
I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
But BBD said that “several” wholesalers it spoke with said they are “waiting out the storm” — expecting the backlash to fade a few weeks following the initial controversy, as many similar blow-ups have in the past.
2
An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
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The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
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I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
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But BBD said that “several” wholesalers it spoke with said they are “waiting out the storm” — expecting the backlash to fade a few weeks following the initial controversy, as many similar blow-ups hav
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How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between pr
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The man was banging a blow-up doll.
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In order to bang a blow-up doll, you shouldn't have too sharp a dick.
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