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Noun
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Supply chain bottlenecks and shortages of critical components—such as semiconductors and specialized machinery—have further driven up prices, highlighting the substantial gap between current book values and genuine replacement or reproduction costs.—
Mark Le Dain,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025 -
Tied to this, Bolton said, was the CEO’s belief that quantum computing should be marketed as a special tool that works alongside classical systems as opposed to a replacement.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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There’s our social life, and the life of a community, as well as our vocational lives, where job displacement and shifts are key concerns.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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In other words, gentrification without displacement.—
Edward Poteat,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Madrid are among the five teams in Europe’s top five leagues who have used all their substitutions the least.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The same can be said about some of the other substitutions.—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Based on previous eruptions, changes from current activity in the earthquakes, ground deformation, summit lake conditions, and fumarolic activity would be expected if magma began to move closer to the surface.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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If the volcano doesn’t erupt at all, gas emissions, earthquakes, and ground deformations would slowly decline, disappearing over a few weeks or months without ever escalating into an explosion.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former FCC commissioners, including two former chairmen.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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Attention also could be paid to dismantling foreign anticompetitive market distortions, in order to augment the benefits achieved through the Task Force.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
18 Nov. 2024
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Despite his legal team's efforts to highlight his mental health struggles and reformation in prison, courts have consistently upheld his sentence.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2025
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Each era-ending crisis created a credible kind of drama: In real life, revolutions, reformations, migration, invasion, disasters, and so much else can reshape societies in fundamental ways.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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But a revision enacted last year allowed only low-income homeowners to apply for the first 30 days after the application portal reopened, and then moderate-income homeowners for 30 days after that.—
Ron Hurtibise,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Many authors will invest years into their research, writing, and revisions, followed by months (or years) of promotional engagements.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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