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Daishin straightened out his lab coat and said, “I see Dr. Hopkins has returned, and appears to be functioning normally.

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Ok, a quick phone call straightened out his new preferred location for us in the gallery for tonight that was perfectly acceptable.

Subscape Annex@Bickett: fantastic and ephemeral badger 2003

At last he straightened from a weedy pool and in one swift stretching motion shed his few clothes.

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 1939

We noticed that whenever she straightened from the table she grunted.

Tish 1916

It's kind of hard to see in that photograph but it looks like, yet again, they're giving Ben "good hair," which is to say straightened and parted on the side, as if Ben rolled into a Pittsburgh barber's shop and said "Gimme a John Gavin."

Now THAT's what I'm talkin' about! Arbogast 2008

I found this frustrating and confusing until I realized their messages were consistent once you got the terms straightened out.

Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

But when he heard his name he straightened up and looked at me.

A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

But when he heard his name he straightened up and looked at me.

A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

You could -- if we can't get all our titles straightened out, you could give us all -- we could all shift and take one another's job and we couldn't repeal the changes.

Presidents Remarks At Gillette ITY National Archives 1993

Poor Porter outlived Oldfield for more than thirty years and, having also outlived an annuity settled upon herself, spent her declining days in what polite writers call straightened circumstances.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902