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She’s a spirited but straightforward communicator who, like Mamdani, speaks about economic issues in a way that is both easy to understand and frankly fun.

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The city had two decades of spirited opposition politics, which took off in the final years of British colonial rule and grew into a pro-democracy coalition in the 2010s before being wiped out.

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The fear is that they have already been spirited abroad, though the prosecutor in charge of the case has said she is still hopeful they can be retrieved intact.

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In one of the stories, The Pinking Shears, the character is a spirited little girl called Jean Louie who gives a friend a haircut and faces the wrath of the child's father.

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Or will this theft join the ranks of unsolved art heists, alongside the 1990 robbery that spirited away an estimated $500 million of paintings and sketches from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?

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

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