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Simon said it was partly because she was working baker’s hours—she baked bread all night and slept during the daytime—but mostly to do with her “preparations” for the first full moon in May.

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Malin explained that metformin partly works by inhibiting specific mitochondrial processes.

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It’s partly why they are having to increasingly turn to debt to fund the data center buildout—Amazon just raised $15 billion from its first U.S. dollar bond offering in three years.

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The Big Ten is partly in this predicament, Acker said, because conference commissioners in general “were ceded far too much power.”

The PC market has showed unexpected momentum recently, as customers have upgraded devices partly due to a Windows end-of-life update.

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

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