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Kelly confirmed that some of the CEOs of Ginkgo’s partners, including the head of Motif, raised concerns to him about the unpredictable way Ginkgo was expending the foundry credits they’d been awarded.

It’s a little depressing to think of all the energy that was expended to get those toys across the sea, through the ports, on the railways, and in a truck, to my doorstep.

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For the nautilus, the energy expended for swimming also allows for respiration.

However, the existence of those contracts and what has been expended on them can be public information.

Commissioner Nadia Keilani ultimately signed an order compelling SDPD — not the city attorney — to turn over the evidence Cusack believed she was owed, but not before expressing frustration over the energy being expended by the court.

You may not win a medal, but it will help you expend some calories while you watch.

The assumption is that obesity is fundamentally caused merely by consuming more calories than our bodies choose to expend.

The fatter we get, the more we need to eat, and the less energy we will expend.

As Carter writes, “Within the limits of the energy [Letterman] was now willing to expend, he was still trying.”

We were both to look to Fraser, Trenholm & Co., for all the money we were to expend, as indeed were all the diplomatic agents.

But Peter and Sogrange were both of them too wise to expend any more of their strength in a useless struggle.

Mind that none of my nephews or nieces expend any fraction of their guineas on presents for me.

He was therefore naturally anxious not to expend more than was absolutely necessary in defraying his passage.

Any individual who has time and patience to expend ad libitum, cannot desire a fairer field of exercise than the ‘Bibliotheca.’

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

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