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Madison and Monroe ordered cannons to the banks of the river to prepare to repel the next wave of invaders.
IN 1814, BRITISH FORCES BURNED THE U.S. CAPITOLJOEL ACHENBACHJANUARY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POST
As in any conflict, sometimes the effort to repel an infection can itself be damaging.
EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO COVID VACCINESKAREN YUANDECEMBER 31, 2020FORTUNE
In other number news, Vesselin Dimitrov used another well-known bridge — connecting polynomials to power series — to quantify exactly how certain numerical solutions to polynomials work to geometrically repel each other.
THE YEAR IN MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCEBILL ANDREWSDECEMBER 23, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
A water-repelling compound keeps the web from absorbing water.
WHY TODAY’S ‘FAST FASHIONS’ CAN BE BAD FOR THE PLANETKATHIANN KOWALSKIDECEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
This is what leaves you immunized and ready to repel the real virus if it turns up.
WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENTS OF PFIZER’S COVID-19 VACCINE?KONSTANTIN KAKAESDECEMBER 9, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
The following extracts are quoted from the press of China, upon the subject of repelling the Ti-pings from Shanghae.
TI-PING TIEN-KWOHAUGUSTUS F. LINDLEY
Glittering and glassy, they sparkled like ice—clear, sarcastic and repelling—and oh, how cold!
THE MONCTONS: A NOVEL, VOLUME ISUSANNA MOODIE
"Perhaps he prizes it for its own sake," Mrs. Gould said in a tone as if she were repelling an undeserved aspersion.
NOSTROMO: A TALE OF THE SEABOARDJOSEPH CONRAD
That full-blooded, powerful temperament is the only nature capable of repelling the action of time.
BEATRIXHONORE DE BALZAC
She had no intimates of her own sex; with the women she was courteously distant, repelling and rather despising them.
DESERT CONQUESTA. M. CHISHOLM

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