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The responses show how rare it is for teachers to use insects in their classrooms and the small number of insect species they select for this purpose.

The beauty of a compilation usually lies in the way it can refashion a band's narrative by sequencing songs into something resembling a coherent statement of purpose.

I would help you, but of course that would defeat the purpose of protecting ourselves from spreading germs.

As of last month, the remaining $259 billion still has not been committed to any of the Fed’s specific programs or for any other purpose.

“Putting hundreds or even thousands of Virginians at risk for the sole purpose of selling guns is just not worth it,” the attorney general said on Twitter.

Reputations are constantly being disinterred, re-examined, re-purposed for use in the troublesome present.

This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.

The longer we laid there the more curious did I become as to what line of action MacRae purposed to follow.

He was a stubborn idealist, and having found something at last to admire he purposed to hug it.

This point they had to turn before they reached the spot from which Kinnaird purposed descending to the river.

Against assurance such as this the dangerous Missouri with its bars and snags purposed a present revenge.

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

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