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the nod

noun as in high sign

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He gets the nod over Atkinson partly because of his record on this ground.

From BBC

Tom Curry has won a fiercely contested battle for the number seven jersey, getting the nod ahead of Morgan and Josh van der Flier.

From BBC

After making only 10 starts in the first half of the year following offseason foot and knee surgeries, the future Hall of Famer was shoehorned in as a “Legend Pick” by commissioner Rob Manfred, getting the nod a week after becoming the 20th pitcher in MLB with 3,000 strikeouts.

One longtime fan, who appreciated the nod to the yellow “Charger Power” T-shirts worn by Bolts faithful in the late 1970s and early 1980s, wrote on X that the uniforms are “simply beautiful.”

Give her the nod and the Emmy too.

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

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