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A ministry spokesperson said in a separate statement Thursday that some entities had engaged in "so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan", made "vile remarks about China", and helped foreign governments suppress Chinese companies.

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Officials did not state whether it would be one or two cuts, though the Fed’s so-called dot plot indicated a slight majority favored two moves this year.

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Chesson’s experience is one dramatic instance among thousands of so-called fume events reported to the Federal Aviation Administration since 2010, in which toxic fumes from a jet’s engines leak unfiltered into the cockpit or cabin.

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Doctors in a handful of states with so-called shield laws have prescribed the medication to women in states with abortion bans.

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It overturned the so-called Chevron deference doctrine, according to which regulatory agencies had wide latitude in interpreting vague statutes.

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