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scale

noun as in thin covering, skin

verb as in ascend, climb

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verb as in measure

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This means the military would need to join with the private sector and civilian organizations on a scale it hadn’t done before.

But when the new site changed the radar's colour scale, long-time users were left scratching their heads as their "hard-won intuition for reading storm intensity became unreliable overnight".

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Sunny Bonnell, a brand expert who is the chief executive of the Motto agency, said the show is “one of the few franchises that can still influence culture at scale.”

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“As these markets scale, lenders may face indirect exposure if borrowers use credit to fund speculative activity,” the analysts wrote, “reinforcing the behavioral risk theme already evident in sports betting.”

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And Article 25 states "the relevant Fifa judicial body may scale down the disciplinary measure to be imposed or even dispense with it entirely".

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

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