as in to prime
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Contract, Hospitality Are Key to Growth Luxury European design firms are primed for growth in places like Riyadh, where contract business is on the rise as its hospitality industry booms.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2025 -
With our national Tech Hub designation and Gov. Wes Moore’s $1 billion Capital of Quantum initiative, downtown is primed for growth in technology, creative services, and life sciences — reinforcing our role as a center for innovation and investment.—
Shelonda Stokes,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Apr. 2025
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Literacy was seen as a major factor in pre-war slave unrest, and attempts to educate Southern Blacks were greeted with everything from suspicion to violent opposition.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Mercedes also has an easier audience to sell EVs to -- their customers are educated and more willing to try new things.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2025
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The lawsuit, obtained by Fox News Digital, alleges a teacher and principal at Madison Middle School in Mansfield violated a student's First Amendment right to free speech and 14th Amendment right to due process when he was punished for wearing the shirt to school several times.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Canada is attempting to school Americans on economics and tariffs, via billboards in red states and political battlegrounds, including multiple locations in Florida.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the biggest fights lie ahead: The blueprint instructs the House and Senate to craft separate proposals that will eventually need to be reconciled.—
Riley Beggin,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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The order also instructed the military to refrain from teaching that America’s founding documents are racist or sexist and about gender ideology.—
Cheyanne M. Daniels,
The Hill,
5 Apr. 2025
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The traffic alert was reported Tuesday at 5:02 p.m., and the last update concerning this incident was provided on Tuesday at 5:08 p.m.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Mac Studio is designed for professional use in more demanding applications, using the higher-tier M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips to provide workstation-grade performance.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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Professional investors are trained to control their behavior and may succeed using a variety of different investment strategies.—
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
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Since Microsoft trained the AI model generating the interactive Quake II imagery on video footage of people playing the actual game, predictable things happen in predictable places.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Bruce Springsteen is seemingly gearing up to release another massive collection from his vaults.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
2 Apr. 2025
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Democrats' Supreme Court win in Wisconsin and the Republican margin of victory in Florida races serve as a primer for the bigger battle brewing between Republicans and Democrats as the parties gear up for the midterm year.—
Averi Harper,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Secondly, there is a very important business equation here, because Gavi spent more on vaccines supplied by U.S. companies than any other country in the world.—
Alice Park,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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At this point, the measure was at its highest value since April 14, 2024, additional figures supplied by Blockforce Capital reveal.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Boot (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28up%29. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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