as in breathing
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as in person
a member of the human race
no one has the right to enslave another being
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as in object
one that has a real and independent existence
new parents are typically in awe at having created this separate being
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as in essence
the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is
music is such a large part of her being that she could never give up performing
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as in living
to have life
stories that begin with the familiar line "once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden"
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as in sitting
to occupy a place or location
we'll be there waiting for you
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as in ranking
to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes
our school's football team is first in its division
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as in happening
to take place
the party is next Saturday
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Recent Examples of being
Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
The official date of the Day of the Dead — a Mexican tradition rooted in Indigenous customs in which all beings who have passed are commemorated via altars — is Nov. 2.
—Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
The lawsuits, which have been consolidated in federal court in Minneapolis for the time being, allege a vast conspiracy among the world’s four largest meatpackers — Cargill, JBS, Tyson, and National Beef Packing, which together control more than 80% of the U.S. beef market.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
What Allegedly Happened To Linda Napolitano? Linda Napolitano, a NYC housewife and stay-at-home mom, said that on the night of Nov. 30, 1989, three extraterrestrial beings kidnapped her outside her 12th-floor downtown apartment.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Billy's struggle to sort out his identity as a mystical being while masquerading as a normal teen was surprisingly touching.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
The official date of the Day of the Dead — a Mexican tradition rooted in Indigenous customs in which all beings who have passed are commemorated via altars — is Nov. 2.
—Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
The lawsuits, which have been consolidated in federal court in Minneapolis for the time being, allege a vast conspiracy among the world’s four largest meatpackers — Cargill, JBS, Tyson, and National Beef Packing, which together control more than 80% of the U.S. beef market.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
What Allegedly Happened To Linda Napolitano? Linda Napolitano, a NYC housewife and stay-at-home mom, said that on the night of Nov. 30, 1989, three extraterrestrial beings kidnapped her outside her 12th-floor downtown apartment.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Reddish was ruled out an hour before tipoff because of a right peroneal strain – irritation or inflammation in the tendons that run along the outside of a person’s ankle and foot.Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
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The last person to pull that off was Navy’s Roger Staubach in 1963.Sarah Kelly, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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Each object within their home sparks etched memories and emotional tension.John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Decomposition Depends on Placement in Space For inorganic objects like a piece of metal, for example, the process of decomposition would take much longer in space.Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Paramount Nearly every TV show that Taylor Sheridan has ever produced has been, in essence, a crime drama.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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The tools take advantage of Generative adversarial networks, which, in essence, try to trick the AI algorithm with incorrect (i.e., adversarial) data.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Several passengers intervened on an American Airlines flight this week when a man allegedly attacked a woman sitting next to him, video taken by another passenger appeared to show.Brie Stimson, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
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Pictures of President Calvin Coolidge and first lady Grace Coolidge show them being sworn in as meeting the criteria for Massachusetts absentee voting in 1924 and sitting at a small wooden table picturesquely placed on the White House South Lawn.Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
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There's a lot of good, good things happening at this club.Asif Burhan, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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To sample is to lift an existing sound recording and place that into another sound recording, which isn’t what’s happening here.Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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Private equity now dominates sectors essential to daily life, from housing to health care.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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China has effectively become a lifeline for North Korea, supplying essential goods such as food, clothing, fertilizer, machinery, and construction materials—nearly everything that sustains the daily lives of North Koreans and the country’s industries.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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The Department he's nominated to run is one of the biggest, most complex entities in the U.S. - an institution that, as our next guest notes, has its own judicial code, its own legal system, its health care system.Connor Donevan, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
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No government entity has weighed in on the Guidepost investigation or affirmed any of its findings; Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel offered three times to review the school shooting, the Detroit Free Press reported, but the Oxford School Board rejected her offers.Christina Coulter, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Eventually, Collette’s rigid, defensive stare gives way to belief while Hoult’s cherubic face hides a weak, secretive nature.Armond White, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
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The nature of optics, or how the eye sees as light’s conduit, is the focus of an altarpiece fragment by Giotto from the San Diego Museum of Art.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Being.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/being. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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