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Thomas gives town talks on “Great Expectations,” “Middlemarch” and other novels.

And the fields beyond town that became the moors from “Great Expectations” in the fog.

It was a bold move by Luis Enrique to drop Donnarumma and turn to the Frenchman, but one that could prove a masterstroke in the future if Chevalier lives up to great expectations.

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Jonathan Pinkney, professor of endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Plymouth, says while there are "great expectations and hope around the drugs", trials show people "do tend to relapse" after they stop taking them, meaning the weight loss isn't sustained.

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According to Carlin, the band had no great expectations for 1992’s “Automatic for the People,” an album of mostly quiet, mournful ballads that, along with “Out of Time,” remains its most popular album.

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

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