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spell

noun as in interval, period

noun as in seizure

verb as in give rest, relief

Strongest match

Weak matches

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Buffett spelled it out in his 2014 letter to Berkshire shareholders with all the subtlety of a divorce lawyer explaining alimony.

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Following a brief spell of weak La Nina conditions between December 2024 to March this year, neutral conditions had persisted, but the US National Weather Service declared Thursday La Nina was back.

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After 500 passes, it knew how to spell.

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It isn’t a strategy that builds long championship windows—those spells when everything is in place to win trophies—but done correctly, it can open them at any time.

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A naive and wealthy man named Simon Aron falls under the spell of Mocata, the leader of a Satanic society active in London and southern England.

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