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Those businesses are even harder to reach, hemmed in by checkpoints on both the east and west.

Leisa Alexander, her husband and her mother-in-law scrambled into their car on Laurice Avenue, only to find themselves hemmed in on both sides on Marathon Road.

But in practice, he found himself hemmed in by experienced Cabinet officials, White House lawyers and military officers, some of whom dubbed themselves “the adults in the room.”

Vickers believes these efforts could help address inbreeding among pumas in the Santa Anas that are hemmed in by the I-15.

But journalists and documentary filmmakers are hemmed in by what they can demonstrably prove.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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