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The overly inclusive approach undermines the curators’ arguments, and examples of such miscategorizations are numerous.

Given the rapidly changing economic and financial landscape, investors need to be wary of becoming overly dependent on the Federal Reserve’s guidance on interest rates.

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Nord Stream had long been contentious for enabling Russian gas to bypass eastern European transit routes and leaving Germany overly reliant on cheap energy from Moscow.

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It said the asylum process took an overly "defensive approach", with "assessments of likely legal challenge, and even the possibility of defeat" used "as a reason not to do something".

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The comment paints with an overly broad brush, but there is no question that anti-Israel activism stokes anti-Jewish harassment and violence.

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