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classical

adjective as in concerning ancient culture

adjective as in simple, chaste

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If these devices produce answers to problems considered impossible for classical machines, how can anyone confirm that the results are correct?

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Jazz was striving toward new levels of sophistication in the 1950s, as advocates for the music argued for its due consideration alongside classical music.

But the roots of this development, he contends, lie even further back—in the classical texts that early modern thinkers read and absorbed.

In the 1980s, Jon-Perse acquires his first personal computer at the same time that he is becoming enamored with classical Arabic verse, particularly a form of love poetry called the ghazal.

Bones transformed classical singer Charlotte Church into her drag sister, named Blood, and the pair donned co-ordinated cream silk and lace outfits as part of a vampire wedding fantasy.

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