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Most revealing was the description of his relationship with Brendon McCullum – "I'll bet on the favourite and he'll bet on the longest odds possible".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Separately, Mann wrote that a description of the data sets was “deliberately vague since it’s libgen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The Pineapple” in its limited online description promises an alien encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
A chemistry concept taught to generations of students may need to be explained very differently, according to an international team of researchers who say a long-accepted textbook description does not match modern evidence.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“I was taken aback by how intense and vivid the descriptions were, and not only detailed, but very viscerally described … Mona Awad is not a generic prose writer,” Ah Sing says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The new experiment explores a region where these two descriptions overlap.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Without technological help, departments were left working with partial descriptions taken from grainy surveillance footage of suspect vehicles, Rodriguez said.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The descriptions in two emails pulled lines directly from his LinkedIn profile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
This caused him to mistrust all purely rational descriptions of human behavior as incompatible with the more passionate stirrings he felt within his own personality.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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