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adjective as in cadenced

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The Miombo Woodland Restoration Project in Zambia aims to remove some 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2030 by planting tens of thousands of trees, while also creating 50,000 “ecopreneurs” to facilitate the project.

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In one instance, a partner wanted to add a metric for whether a founder had started multiple companies before.

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The People’s Bank of China has added 21 metric tons of gold to its reserves this year, based on calculations from Reuters, bringing its overall total to just over 2,300 tons.

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This week, the stock pulled back to its 21-day exponential moving average—a metric that places emphasis on recent price changes—for the first time since moving decisively upward from $260.97 last month.

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“You’ve got a risk off asset generally historically in gold, and you’ve got a very much risk-on appetite metric in Bitcoin.”

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

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