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- s slightly open
the door was ajar
- I put my head out slowly and the road was a disaster houses on fire, windows broken, every gate ajar in a country where tidiness is valued.
- Indeed, presidential advisers hoped to leave the door ajar for tax increases "as a last resort," in the President's words.
- Several of its ceiling panels were ajar, service trays got stuck, and window shades slipped down without being pulled.