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Then he kind of turned on you — accused you of being a cop, took your interview tapes.

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Her finger is broadcast, aiming heavenward, on flat screens scattered around the show, like a motion detector that turns on lights in a dark alley to silently alert passersby of their endangered status.

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This Halloween, do something small but radical: turn on your porch light and open your door.

Best of all, we have so much natural light that we don’t turn on fixtures until the sun sets.

Until the glasses and waistband computer are turned on, the implant has no visual stimulus or signal to pass through to the brain.

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

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