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1 - Most stutterers can recite poems or sing with relative ease, but normal conversation can be a distressing exercise in frustration.

2 - Certain features of the motorway undoubtedly ease the strain of driving.

3 - The medication helped ease the pain of the wound.

4 - Many observers predict that as China continues to open itself, state control will ease.

5 - Russia takes a series of diplomatic steps in an apparent effort to ease tensions with the West over the conflict in Georgia.