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It stopped beside the front porch of the farmhouse and dropped its last crate to the ground.

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There is a trap you can fall into, whereas these technologies get better and better, and you stop thinking.

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“This week, making sure we can stop that will be huge for us.”

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GOP legislators and animal rights activists have sought to stop a plan to cull barred owls to save spotted owls.

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Another warned Newby that information about his confrontational behavior would be leaked to the newspapers if he didn’t stop.

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

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