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A year before, Frost might have done one billion-dollar deal each month; now he was doing twenty, all of them insuring putatively diversified piles of consumer loans.

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Instead, the strategic calculation appears to have been that you can fold some of the groypers back into mainstream conservativism, but only by tiptoeing around the flaws of their putative leaders.

In India, the unexpected pummeling by a putative partner has led to anger and soul-searching.

This effort, which has bipartisan support, is important because disability judges sometimes have approved or disapproved disability benefits based on the putative availability of old jobs that no longer truly exist.

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The answer is because the Democratic left wants to force businesses to disclose publicly their putative climate risks and CO2 emissions.

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

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