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noun as in cancer

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The search query report metrics in column C are lower because of Google’s search term filtering.

The cases followed a blockbuster 2017 state Supreme Court ruling that inspired the Measure C campaign to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a signature-gathering effort to facilitate such a challenge.

These all involve adding some sort of error to data—like a classic code where you shift the alphabet over two letters so that A is encoded as C and B as D, and so on.

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Founded in 2004, it went public in 2015, but not before raising four venture rounds first, including from FirstMark and Jani, who was there at the A round, B round and the company’s last private funding event, its C round.

For example, the pitch of the note A above middle C needs to be 440 hertz.

Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.

“I just got my nails done,” gushes Michael C. Hall, extending his manicured, silver digits towards me.

Right off the bat, papyrologist Brice C. Jones noted that something was awry.

Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.

“Chick Chick,” the latest tune by C-Pop sensation Wang Rong, is like “Gangnam Style” on MDMA.

The 1980s series followed in that tradition with episodes from Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, and Anne Collins.

A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.

The 1950s, observed C. Vann Woodward, resembled the era of Reconstruction in many ways.

He contracted Hepatitis C from drug use, which was a contributory factor in his death.

C-list TV star Adam Baldwin threw her GamerGate conspiracy video a much appreciated tweet.

According to the Montgomery Police Department, transmitting a sexually transmitted disease is a class C misdemeanor.

As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed.

The door to Unit C was made of reinforced steel and had a small double-paned window.

John C. Beck, now 54 years old and the owner of a consulting firm, then was 23 years old, fresh out of Harvard.

He joked about the deafening noise levels in the old C-130 transport planes and sex at his age, then approaching 60.

Watching you and John C. Reilly together was like a watching a Never Been Kissed reunion.

You play a sweet, soft-hearted mom in the film and John C. Reilly is the strict rule-enforcer.

The airdrop mission consisted of a C-17 and two C-130 aircraft that were escorted by two F-18 fighters.

That's tame compared to the C-word and racism other Republicans have thrown on the social network.

“They were C-team fighters,” says a Lebanese military intelligence officer.

C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.

He was a bookseller, but better known as a translator of the German contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, &c.

(c) Decomposition of exudates anywhere in the body, as in empyema, bronchiectasis, and large tuberculous cavities.

En effet un soir, sa femme et enfans l'abandonnerent entierement, et s'en allerent cabaner ailleurs, pensant que c'en estoit vuid.

The usual forms are: (a) Ammoniomagnesium phosphate crystals; (b) acid calcium phosphate crystals; and (c) amorphous phosphates.

But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.

It applies only to an ill-used man whose date (birth or death, &c.) was in 1506.

Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.

(c) They are decreased in chronic lymphatic leukemia, and greatly increased in the myelogenous form.

Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

Thomas Smith died; a learned English writer on the manners and religion of the Turks, &c.

Samuel Clarke, a famous English divine, died; celebrated also for his writings on mathematics, &c.

About 350 tons of the acid, which is used in some dying processes, &c., is sent out annually.

Dederat ipse in mdatis, vt antiquo in monumto c demortua prius familia (qu scieb paganic obijsse) sepeliretur.

It has been stated that many articles of furniture, &c., made by him are still in use.

Wire Nails, Staples, &c., are made at Nettlefold's by machinery much in advance of what can ba seen elsewhere.

This Method can be readily applied to events in ancient or modern times, or to an accumulation of facts in the sciences, &c.

An octave coupler without such extension is incomplete and is no more honest than a stop which only goes down to Tenor C.

Samuel Pepys, a learned Englishman, died; celebrated for his collection of valuable documents, &c.

They will be further lost in the chamber C, and practically none will remain by the time the chamber D is reached.

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