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The core disputes at the court this year reflect controversial factual questions about gender and race: How pervasive and influential is racism in the current day?

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Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.

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“These initiatives really negate and mitigate the very pervasive idea of seeing immigrants as permanent foreigners in this country only because of their color or language,” Syed said.

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"No other population is under such restrictions in today's world," it concluded, adding that surveillance had become "more pervasive", helped in part by advances in technology.

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The series endures because it’s a “comic masterpiece,” Simon said, but also because it “deals with a pervasive societal problem in America: loneliness.”

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

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