Clay
Clay noun - The set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others.
Usage example: had the feeling that the natives were of a different clay than us and that neither side would ever understand the other
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Synonyms for Clay
Point
Point noun - A particular and often important moment in time.
Both words in one sentence
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Frank at one point even punches a man through the face, shattering it like a clay pot.
Source: Made of Plasticine -
Lothar's boots have sunken deep into the clay by this point, requiring him to unfasten them before he jumps off.
Source: Giving Them the Strip - Clay from Moral Orel, largely courtesy of the fact his mother spoiled him rotten and ignored his father to the point of leaving him to eat Clay's leftovers.
Source: Oedipus Complex
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