Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Expressed
Expressed adjective - Communicated in words.
Both words in one sentence
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Her father first came close to raping her, and then drove her off, nearly killed her, and did kill her nanny Winter when her shanir traits expressed themselves.
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Emergency Exit has quite a few relationships like this, the most obvious being the main characters and roommates Bob and Eddie, as well as Karl and Jason even though Jason technically expressed romantic interest in Karl, but since Karl's straight they are only very close friends.
Source: Heterosexual Life-Partners - The fundamental molecules of life are furthermore made up from only 6 elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.note With selenium being close runner up, as it actually occurs in one amino acid that can be expressed within the genetic code.
Source: Numerological Motif
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