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More than 2,000 continue to make submitting the results of SAT and ACT scores optional, for instance, something many started doing during the pandemic.

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Embracing AI is “a necessary task and not an optional one,” China’s Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Zhang Yunming said recently.

Citing murky laws and growing case law, online service HelloPrenup last year added optional clauses to its forms to help couples spell out what happens to embryos in a breakup.

It later emerged that Khawaja skipped optional training on Thursday to play golf, but Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg said the back stiffness was a pre-existing issue.

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Her recommendation for coating with a marmalade glaze is “optional,” but for me it is a must.

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

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