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pan

noun as in container for cooking food

verb as in look, search for over a wide area

verb as in criticize strongly

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Is Newsom the Democratic front-runner or a mere flash in the pan?

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If that pans out, the companies will have spent $1 trillion in four years, largely on AI.

In the millions of words said and written in the preamble to this game, in all the different scenarios presented about how it might all pan out, nobody came up with this.

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Investors have panned the company’s plan to continue increasing its capital expenditures for AI development.

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She’s also been participating in Project Pan, which requires her to finish a makeup product—or “hit pan”—before she buys another one.

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

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