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plain

adjective as in straightforward in speech

adjective as in normal, everyday

adjective as in unembellished, basic

adjective as in ugly

noun as in level land

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I don’t pretend to know, but this much seems plain: His use of the Bible and Christianity has some purpose he won’t, or can’t, explain.

But what we do have is technology that allows us to see things as they are, at this moment, and so a market that was once opaque now operates in plain sight.

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Thursday’s announcement follows last month’s news that the Interior Department will also open the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.

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Just like how the Himalayas on Earth form a boundary separating the plains and plateaus, the 10.8 billion-year-old Cosmic Himalayas form a boundary separating distinct cosmic structures in the early Universe.

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The researchers acknowledged the important role played by fat, salt and sugar, calling for future research to isolate the effect of ultra-processing in foods such as flavoured and plain yoghurts.

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

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