Definitions
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- noun grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs
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Examples
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A sandspur to scammers who keep trying to lure animal lovers.
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A sandspur to the money-saving tip in The Wall Street Journal coverage in a Sunday edition the other week.
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A sandspur to predators on our community's contingent of grandparents.
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A sandspur to the road job that, seemingly, will go on forever.
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A sandspur to the road job that, seemingly, will go on forever.
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I have no idea why, whether it was growing up in that god-forsaken, sandspur-infested, snaky wilderness or what, but my father just didn't have the normal fear of snakes.
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A sandspur to the economic reality that a tenant of the coffee capital of the world -
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