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measure

noun as in standard, rule

noun as in bill, law

noun as in beat, rhythm

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The great thing about this discovery is that we now know that we can measure such tiny asteroids from Earth.

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Travelers who don’t have a compliant ID have been subject to additional screening measures, and can be denied access to their flights if their identities can’t be confirmed.

Along with team member Laura Clifton Byrne, an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, he also shadowed foraging chimpanzees, retrieving freshly dislodged fruits from beneath the canopy and measuring their alcohol content.

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"The court is facing an unprecedented time with these coercive measures that have been levelled at judges and prosecutors, including one French magistrate," said Darmanin.

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The U.K.’s budget watchdog failed to protect its assessment of measures to be announced by the government from premature access, but didn’t intentionally make the material public, an independent review concluded Monday.

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

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