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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they have ideas for the new project that are a world away from his own
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Recent Examples of world
The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i gives you the best of both worlds: A laptop and a tablet in one versatile device.
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Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
In 2002, the Netherlands legalised both assisted suicide and, in a world first, euthanasia.
—The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
Forging the Covert: Part Three — Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and the filmmakers explore the expanding world of Season Three’s Mandalorian warriors.
—John Archer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Babies explore their world through play, using their senses to reach developmental milestones.
—Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
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Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
In 2002, the Netherlands legalised both assisted suicide and, in a world first, euthanasia.
—The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
Forging the Covert: Part Three — Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and the filmmakers explore the expanding world of Season Three’s Mandalorian warriors.
—John Archer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Babies explore their world through play, using their senses to reach developmental milestones.
—Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
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Where Pink Floyd’s Seventies oeuvre obsessed on the brutality of the human condition, Gilmour’s latest solo music concerns itself with humanity’s fragility.Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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When, in the end, Bill removes an abused girl from the convent and walks her through town for all to see, back to his home, it isn’t played as some triumphant moment, but as an act of pure humanity.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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Whether your giftee has puffy undereyes, a migraine, or the need for some general facial soothing, these cooling ice globes can feel luxurious at the start and finish of a long day.Malia Griggs, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2024
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Regina Hall, a hamburger and a globe also appeared in the clue package.Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Weber, 33, is an alum of The Bachelor universe, including placing third on the 15th season of The Bachelorette and starring as the bachelor on season 24.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Big thanks to Andrea Arnold for letting us in so close to her visionary universe.Thomas Smith, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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There are other ways of seeing what things were like back then: Astronomers can point cameras directly at galaxies that are 5 billion light-years distant and capture light that left them 5 billion years ago.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pía will also take you along on an fascinating journey through the galaxy by identifying constellations and explaining the significance of the cosmos to the local Indigenous people.Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Scientists know now that the stealthy menace originated in east Asia and was probably spread inadvertently by people to every continent except Antarctica.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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Forests here can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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Failure would be deeply embarrassing and, more pressingly, dangerous for the planet.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The nature of California’s new system of largely vote-by-mail ballots, and a 30-day canvass period in which election officials can resolve problem ballots, certify results, and conduct an audit, prolongs the release of official final results.Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Grey’s Anatomy Night Moves Season 21 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next There are two ways a person can leave Grey’s Anatomy.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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That’s one way to explain the absence of Donald Trump’s wife from a curious new election-night Trump family photo, posted to X by Donald Trump Jr.’s daughter Kai.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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“World.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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