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Root has played 14 Tests in Australia and scored 892 runs, a respectable return.

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It’s a respectable fund with a small corner dedicated to hunting for value in the margins.

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If they succeed in making racism respectable again, they will be the ruin of America.

The New York native, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine, had spent 16 years running the Discovery cable channel group, a respectable business, but one that lacked Hollywood flash.

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Baltimore should be rested after a week off and could do a respectable job against Chicago’s ground game.

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