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quarry

noun as in object pursued

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Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be particularly valuable.

Replacement stone was sourced in quarries in northern France.

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Their innovation, described in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters, could help axion hunters spot quarry that would elude current detectors.

A review of the quarry’s haul reveals a long length of vertebrae from a single animal that connects the two and solves the riddle: Gnatalie, Chiappe confirms, is indeed a previously undiscovered species.

Irwin Mitchell said the large number of stonemasons, quarries and stoneyards in Leeds and Bradford had led to more victims of the disease coming forward to seek legal advice.

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

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