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But he’s taken aback when he’s asked to explain why such an old-fashioned tradition persists.

But Bianchi and her colleagues were taken aback by the frequency and breadth of other tumor types they found.

"It would almost be arrogant not to be taken aback by how successful it turned out to be," she says.

Borisov artfully underplays the progression: He’s taken aback by her feral resistance, amused by her spirit, then really sees her.

But she said that firms had been taken aback by the lowering of the threshold for the payment of National Insurance, and that the pain was "really serious".