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Even as institutional expertise dooms the victim, it empowers the murderer, who has created a seemingly impenetrable alibi by taking advantage of the record-keeping intrinsic to large organizations.

Out pops the tongue—or, in this case, out pops a New York Times column uncritically linking the pathos of the Screen Actors Guild to the AI doom coming for all of humanity.

Fighting in this sensitive area was supposed to doom the hostages.

“The Fate of Ophelia” describes a lover whose devotion saved Swift from meeting the same bleak end as Shakespeare’s doomed character in “Hamlet.”

But in his opposition to establishing a museum, he was doomed to fail.

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

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