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Yet their current abilities remain limited because qubits lose their information before complex calculations can be completed.

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In 2017, Imagination had recently lost its most important client, Apple, and had seen its share price fall dramatically.

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Mr. Strong’s book dives into the political machinations behind the chess face-off in deliberate detail—Florence, born in Communist Hungary, is threatened by Walter with deportation if she doesn’t get Freddie to lose the match.

Though there is never a good way to tell employees they are losing their jobs, he said, “At the end of the day, you’re looking for the least-bad option.”

As trees are lost to deforestation, fire, and heat stress, the forest releases less moisture into the atmosphere, he explains, reducing rainfall and intensifying drought.

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

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