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Before you know it, you’re handing over your credit card and receiving an immaculately packaged shopping bag — a feat no e-tailer could ever compete with.

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“Ma, I watched you walk through town, and no one even noticed you. We’ll be fine! Let’s follow those robots into the last car, I’ll find a hiding spot, and we’ll be in the city before you know it!”

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Before you know it, work is coming home with you - seeping into weekends and disrupting time with family and friends.

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"It takes time to then get players out, get players in and then before you know it, that manager doesn't get the results and then they're gone and you're back to square one," said Rooney.

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“Where it’s like, you’re a little off, you want to see what’s wrong with your swing, and you don’t realize that it snowballs. Before you know it, you’re thinking so much about your swing, you’re off of the situations out there.”

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

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