Doesn't friendship require something approximating equal contribution to the deal?
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And as she did, she didn't feel anything approximating jitters.
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Someone had arranged the rectangular desks into something approximating a circle.
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The system utilizes electrical impulses to stimulate muscles, approximating resistance and touch.
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Other garments took on sharp, geometric shapes approximating trees, roses or swans.
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She likes the Chanel Brow Powder Duo for its hair-approximating shades.
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The method is analogous to approximating a tree's age by its growth rings.
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It is approximating my area of interest to the direction of my forehead.
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Will you succeed at producing infinitely many approximating fractions under such specific conditions?
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All instances of anything approximating love or tenderness arrive in hock to cruelty.
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"That's not my cup of tea," he said with something approximating a smile.
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Two separate incidents also drew criticism after killing a combined total approximating 150 civilians.
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Every year it sets immigration targets approximating to roughly 1% percent of the population.
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Or maybe players just have to get themselves back into something approximating game-shape.
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The final generic ballot numbers typically perform well in approximating the House popular vote.
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But he felt, in the end, that he would always be merely approximating it.
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Technology improves security, but it is not easy to write a formula approximating intuition.
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OK. Sure, the actress might have overspent on these Camubutterfly denim shorts (approximating $2,190).
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So far, I'd managed something approximating a shoe, a face and a pair of triangles.
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But while today's AI can solve complex problems, it's still far from approximating human intelligence.
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Approximating a human brain is maybe not even possible, but a primitive parasite is another story.
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But here, too, are deep-fried momos shaped like waning moons, approximating little hard taco shells.
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Francis Lowndes invented a device approximating the function of an exercise bike in the late 1790s.
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Well, our shoots have never even come close to approximating what goes on in Brimstone & Glory.
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Superman 64: You look like some kind of humanoid smear approximating Superman, and you can't change that.
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Take this usual dilemma, pump it full of steroids, and you get something approximating the Embiid Situation.
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Music blasted throughout the gym as the teenagers halfheartedly played something vaguely approximating a game of volleyball.
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A rectal thermometer is the gold standard, as it comes closest to approximating the body's core temperature.
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Thereafter, Fitch estimates revenue increases will be in the low single digits approximating Fitch's estimates for GDP growth.
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"DeepStack is a paradigmatic shift in approximating solutions to large, sequential imperfect information games," the system's creators wrote.
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In recent years, O'Keefe has pivoted from shoddy hits on liberal social organizations toward something approximating media reporting.
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Thereafter, Fitch estimates revenue increases will be in the low-single digits approximating Fitch's estimates for GDP growth.
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And so "Metropolis" was restored again, finally approximating its original form for the first time in 250 years.
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So there were fast cars and patient mechanics, but also cheerleaders and country music and something approximating barbecue.
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But the scent of the cabbage was ambrosial: sweet-bitter, approximating caramel on the razor's edge of burned.
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Oh, just the open sea, a giant hamster wheel, and internal temperatures approximating 2014 degrees F. Chiiiiiiiilll, Coast Guard.
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By approximating the starting and ending spot of that first car, I get a distance of about 468 meters.
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"Taken collectively, these essays do not comprise anything approximating a seamless whole," Andrew J. Bacevich writes in the introduction.
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The premise reveals itself as an expression of despair, approximating the tedious but crushing burden of a meaningless existence.
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This way of approximating what's going on in the market, he said, pointed to the need for reliable data.
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Now, these expectations aren't written in stone anywhere, so this is just my best attempt at approximating what they are.
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I felt a swell of something approximating pride when this happened, but I am not going to investigate that further.
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Smaller lakes appeared at heights several hundred feet higher than Titan's sea, again approximating something we see on our planet.
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After all, in 2016 a federal court essentially ruled that approximating white people's hair makes one more qualified for jobs.
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The engineers found that keeping this forefinger very stiff came closest to approximating how a human would play the notes.
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In effect, a deal meant to provide an opening for a formal peace process contained nothing remotely approximating a ceasefire.
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VR allows viewers to experience the landscape, settings, and enormity of a character's world, approximating the experience of actually being there.
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There are a number of content creators and advertisers, approximating the online ad market before Facebook and Google took it over.
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"In a rare admission of something approximating humility, Donald Trump said that some of his retweets are "a little bit shaky.
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"This represents a significant forgone opportunity cost approximating $200bn in lifetime earnings with each and every graduating class," the report says.
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These simple organisms aren't likely capable of experiencing anything approximating pain or frustration; they're basically script-driven automatons with photophilic tendencies.
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The Nature Conservancy was tantalizingly close to its goal — to restore Santa Cruz Island to something approximating its prehistoric, virgin state.
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Yet when deployed, it's even larger than the average umbrella stroller, approximating the feel and function of a full-sized option.
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The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture has you add up the measures of the sets of irrational numbers captured by each approximating fraction.
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Some scientists question whether the WHO projection might be an underestimate, especially since approximating future death rates has proved to be difficult.
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And in the wake of so many long playoff runs, Curry and Thompson are expected to return at something approximating full strength.
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Some string-like samples come in approximating dubby rhythms, but even its presences is unpredictable, an untrustworthy flicker in an unfamiliar landscape.
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Archimedes's mathematical strategy is used in computer-generated movies, approximating Shrek's smooth belly and trumpet-like ears with millions of tiny polygons.
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If actual pixel edges and crunchy output aren't your thing, then Slick Mode does a pretty good job of approximating anti-aliasing.
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What's happening: In a flurry of recent papers, researchers propose tweaking or approximating backprop to explain how the brain learns from mistakes.
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Many foreigners I've discussed the election with find the notion that Iowans have something approximating a debate before proceeding to vote antiquated.
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Implicitly underlying this, however, was the presumption that the UK's election system would deliver something approximating two-party politics with strong majorities.
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This results in walkers extending one leg farther down than the other, approximating a limp that sacrifices stability and strains the opposite leg.
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The rod also comes with a number of buttons conveniently placed on the handle, thus approximating the feel of using a real controller.
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Artificially high electricity costs imposed so as to achieve environmental benefits approximating zero cannot be justified in terms of standard benefit/cost analysis.
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Strictly speaking, DeAndre Jordan is not what you would call "good" or "serviceable" or "in any way approximating competent" at shooting free throws.
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In March 2016, Windstream entered into an incremental secured term loan approximating $600 million, and in September 0003, increased the amount to $747 million.
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Those depicting the monuments alone became the visual framework for a studio shoot, for which Mladenovic had models pose in shapes approximating the sculptures.
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She said that Sprint is the only one of the four national carriers that offers anything approximating commercially reasonable roaming rates to rural carriers.
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And so: Here is the Knicks court, with two (Neon Green, for visibility) marks approximating the distance between Giannis's plant and step-back move.
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Queer Eye's success is—with the aid of expansive production values and Netflix's Leviathan budget—in elevating these restrictive conventions to something approximating art.
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"The economic literature suggests that with arbitration, you are going to get something approximating a competitively set price," says Cooper, the study's lead author.
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People can visit a quaint British church, admire Bauhaus architecture, and walk along something approximating the canals of Venice in a hodgepodge of Western motifs.
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Black tape on the gallery floor demarcated his stage, its angles approximating those of a geometric form in the vast Louise Lawler painting behind him.
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To do it, it helps to know the properties of blood that you're approximating and the non-biohazardous ingredients you can use to imitate them.
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Calm the country: Pick someone who sends a clear signal that anything approximating the status quo of Trump or even pre-Trump won't cut it.
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When the Void's beta testers feel something approximating a wall, he says, they're satisfied — especially when special effects like mist and heat come into play.
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Prior to the new work, mathematicians had wondered whether they could get away with approximating infinite-dimensional matrices by using large finite-dimensional ones instead.
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The result was a substantial fiscal stimulus, approximating $1.83 billion, that was nevertheless hundreds of billions of dollars too small to induce a proper recovery.
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"American Dharma" includes a musical score approximating that of a theatrical thriller, underscoring the sense of urgency -- and passion -- that Morris brings to the fray.
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Approximating about 130 hours to complete each piece, an illustrator strives to revive his long-dormant passion for hand-drawing by adopting a ballpoint pen.
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And then there are the transformationalists, who think Democrats need to push the United States toward something approximating a single-payer system as closely as possible.
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King Krule's The OOZ, released last October, is pretty much one hour of a benevolent alien approximating human speech, as well as hip-hop and jazz.
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So there will be a push to lift Donald Trump up and bring Hillary Clinton down, until they are at least something approximating two equivalent choices.
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Democrats, by contrast, are trying to figure out whether they can come close to approximating the African-American turnout during the two presidential races of Obama.
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Ordinary wine glasses are fine for port, and unless you plan it as an aperitif, serve it cool, approximating cellar temperature, about 55 to 60 degrees.
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The result, Mr. Handler said, comes closer to approximating the cadence of serialized melodramas like "The Perils of Pauline," to which his series owes a debt.
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CES 2017 is supposed to be the stage where Faraday finally unveils something approximating a production vehicle, but the company's buildup to the show has been calamitous.
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Why it matters: The bot is only still approximating — through repeated machine learning — what it thinks a conversational response should be, rather than holding a genuine conversation.
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The project was chilling because it made visible the work of often-invisible machines, approximating what military drones and their pilots actually see when they are deployed.
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Let us put aside how it possibly can be that predicted reductions in temperatures and sea levels approximating zero could yield over $21625 billion in net benefits.
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This is how published writers think, so when we help students get their words into the world we are more closely approximating the moves of published writers.
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Inside the sandy yard of St. Gabriel's Primary school, my classmates and I raced around with those action figures, approximating our best combat thunder and flight sounds.
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Even Google Translate, which pulls off the neat trick of approximating translations by statistically associating sentences across languages, doesn't understand a word of what it is translating.
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The lull lasted until 2008, when a group of researchers discovered a powerful trick for approximating solutions to Polyakov's bootstrap equation for CFTs with three or more dimensions.
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Two creative technologists have created an oddly mesmerizing website that provides something approximating the overview effect, by drawing on the most mundane thing you might imagine: YouTube videos.
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For artificial intelligence to begin approximating human know-how, scientists will need to create models of how people think — such as simulations of your and my actual brain.
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To the mournful tones of an ambient vocalist approximating the sound of an electrical current, the camera patiently captures natural light as it pans across these empty sites.
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Counting the number of lines required making judgment calls, including approximating the number of individual lines in blackened paragraphs and the fraction of a line of redacted text.
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Instead, the song, "Veneno," has skittering drums and a muted, eerie instrumental, à la Drake, with J Balvin approximating a melodic flow that could have come from Atlanta.
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"Mudbound" moves at a methodical pace -- basically approximating its rural, mid-20th century environs -- but with a constant sense of purpose, imbued with a strong sense of foreboding.
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According to that view, the modern Europeans most closely approximating Europe's original hunter-gatherers would be the red-haired blue-eyed Irish on the west coast of Ireland.
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Super Res Zoom works well in tandem with the new lens, while Live HDR+ does a better job approximating how the image will ultimately look once fully processed.
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The Frosts, for all their eccentricities, had an instinct for the kinds of creative people who might establish a community, maybe something approximating a family, even for them.
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A double kickflip isn't achieved by an abstract series of button presses; it's done by approximating the movement your feet would make to produce a real life double kickflip.
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This is especially the case for gushing Kilauea, which is acting just as it should if it ever wants to grow into something approximating its looming predecessor, Mauna Loa.
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With the opposition sidelined and the ruling party having secured five more years of rule through highly questionable means, Bangladesh has become something closely approximating a one-party state.
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A room approximating the bridge from "The Next Generation" — though not remotely as complicated or colorful — offers a simulation of galactic warfare while evaluating your response to battle conditions.
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I have made some weak attempts to engage (joining a call, buying a book, following the play-by-play of the Alabama special election) but nothing approximating real action.
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Spirituality, or something approximating it, is repackaged into a kind of emotional get-rich-quick scheme and sold to people who are as much customers as they are converts.
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What counts as "fluent" is a tough concept to describe, but the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (or CEFR) is a widely-accepted standard for approximating fluency.
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The show generally succeeds, though, in approximating the dreamlike quality of the book, through inky nighttime visuals and elegantly slowed-down scenes of hallway swagger and brutally powerful acrobatics.
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In the video above it's clear that Handle is kind of approximating four wheels by using its arms to offer the precise counterweight needed to keep the thing upright.
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Reviewing books also had the advantage of approximating college work almost exactly, which was especially appealing to the younger version of myself who lacked an iota of career-oriented imagination.
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The app also provides information, should someone step out, about what they missed, approximating the role that a friend (who has the bad habit of talking during movies) would play.
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We need to deepen our connection with patients, not take shortcuts by approximating information from readily available information sources with questionable validity and efficacy that may violate a patient's privacy.
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Far from a curiosity, the gambling markets stand as a rare source of something approximating clarity in the face of Brexit-borne confusion, assuming they turn out to be right.
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Indeed, Trump's surprising popularity is perhaps most surprising insofar as it appears to have been attained in the absence of anything approximating a Trumpian intellectual persuasion or conventionally partisan organization.
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The orchestra's string section, using minimal vibrato, slimmed down its trademark plush sound to something approximating the lean tone of period-instrument bands, but without those ensembles' buoyancy and grace.
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The arrangement accentuated the song's soulfulness, with a chorus of backup singers approximating an ecstatic choir, especially as Mr. Michael moved into the song's bridge around the four-minute mark.
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The Nanobébé Breastmilk Bottle makes every step of the bottle-feeding process easier and more beneficial by approximating the shape of a breast and preserving the nutrients in the milk.
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For one thing, it's almost halfway through before anything approximating a story emerges; even then, it's such a pale, sickly thing you'd be forgiven for thinking you had imagined it.
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Here I found the sort of somewhat-slim winter coat I'd been seeking: the Fission SV ($650), which contoured to the body rather than approximating the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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But while he was more successful than Ms. Bachzetsis in approximating Brown's fluid, sinewy swoop, neither could give it a reason for living within this medley of gender and bodily explorations.
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Likewise, to understand the appearance of … exoplanets' atmospheres requires approximating them as fluids and understanding the macroscopic manifestations of the quantum mechanical properties of the individual molecules: their absorption and scattering properties.
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Todd Grantham's kamikaze defense can bleed big plays, and it's still too soon to tell whether the Cardinals have a defensive lineman who can come close to approximating the departed Sheldon Rankins.
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"I don't think that CBD is doing anything approximating what people are purporting is its magic quality," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who stepped down as F.D.A. commissioner in April, said in an interview.
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But since we can't even come close to approximating any of their pure gold gymnastic routines, we'll just have to settle for their equally bold hair and makeup moves, which we're highlighting below.
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Here's what I love about this: They cared enough to add fake weathering and scoring to the paint job, which results in something approximating the "lived in" nature of the Star Wars universe.
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In "Chrysalis" (1964), "Icarus" (1964), and "Combat" (1965), myriad dots, curving lines, and precipitous arcs impose semiabstract order within washes of pinks, reds, and violets, approximating the collective and individual grandeur of wildflowers.
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Previously, the product -- which uses headsets and a lightsaber-approximating wand, powered by a smartphone app -- exclusively featured battles against characters from the series, like "Star Wars" villains Darth Vader and Kylo Ren.
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Haha, like: Within 15 to 20 minutes of the start of the infusion, control subjects passed gas per rectum at a rate approximating the infusion rate, and they usually experienced very little associated discomfort.
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Filled with insider references and visual flourishes aimed squarely at the comics faithful -- from thought balloons to approximating the Ben-Day dots from old-fashioned printing -- the movie caters to a very particular crowd.
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Obviously, free speech concerns in the United States complicate any discussion around internet service providers blocking access to major websites, and I highly doubt we'll see anything in America approximating such swift unilateral action.
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When I tried the demo for the VR project Gnomes & Goblins, from Iron Man and Jungle Book director Jon Favreau, it did a good job of approximating the basics of human-to-human eye contact.
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Complicating matters are the small pieces of wood littering the steps, approximating some of the non-ideal circumstances the robot will have to grapple with during the search and rescue missions for which it's designed.
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For a man who betrayed something approximating glee when shutting down the government two months ago, it would have been more in step with his character to abandon tradition and re-engage the people anew.
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Both Steve Rubell, a co-owner of Studio 54, and Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club, are depicted, but the second act focuses on the downtown outpost, approximating its most avant-garde sounds.
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This innovative detective-murder, psychological puzzle (and director Christopher Nolan's breakthrough film) tells its story in non-linear stops and starts in order to put the audience in a position approximating the hero's short-term amnesia.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS For AT&T, Fitch's key assumptions within the agency's rating case include: --Fitch estimates AT&T's revenue on a stand-alone basis grows in the low-single digits approximating Fitch's estimates for GDP growth.
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All of that is just a sampling of the bad news that's accrued over the past week or so, and more is likely to come until the number of returned devices reaches something approximating 100 percent.
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Bale will undoubtedly garner well-deserved accolades for the role -- he's already received a Golden Globe nomination, one of several for the film -- not only approximating Cheney's gravelly voice, but practically disappearing underneath the astonishing makeup.
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It said that you can find infinitely many approximating fractions for each irrational number if your denominators can be any whole number, and if you're willing to accept an error that's 1 over the denominator squared.
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And with that lesson often comes a resolve: to show that the other members of the team have some pride and skills, and are capable of at least approximating a competitive basketball team in James's absence.
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So the authorities have turned to aquaculture — with some of the animals raised in sedentary conditions in pens or ponds near the shoreline, while others are raised in the sea in something approximating their natural habitat.
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When the residents of Villamartín heard that the landmark castle near their small town in southern Spain was to be restored, they probably envisaged a thoughtful restoration of the medieval stronghold to something approximating its former glory.
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Rutgers, only an hour from my home by bus, was so far from my old life and so alive with possibility that for the first time in the longest I felt something approaching safety, something approximating hope.
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He asked us to improvise physically in rehearsal, approximating, as closely as possible, the "effanineffable"—that slippery concept invented by T. S. Eliot in "The Naming of Cats," which is sung near the beginning of the show.
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Doing so would be a taunt to the "dishonest media" and "elites" Trump so often derides, even as Pence fulfills the basic political task of approximating some kind of party reconciliation and covering Trump's social conservative blind spots.
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The so-called artificial pancreas, or closed-loop insulin delivery system, monitors blood sugar levels and increases or decreases insulin delivery in response - approximating how a healthy pancreas would work, researchers write in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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Looking at our contemporary era — a time when the overtly acrimonious generation gap of the Woodstock era has yielded, according to the Pew Research Center, to "something approximating peace" — Fass's capacity to engage with her material runs aground.
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Kingdom Hearts III has to make order out of its own chaos, all while having the players visit a number of self-contained worlds approximating the setting and plots of popular Disney films, as its contractual obligations stipulate.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Key rating triggers that could result in a downgrade include: --Lack of meaningful progress over the next 12 months towards debt-EBITDA and financial leverage ratios approximating 1.5x and 40% respectively; --EBITDA-to-interest coverage below 13x.
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But there are moments when it's important to remind even our staunchest pro-Trump readers that this often isn't anything approximating normal: In 18 years of covering presidents, we have never seen a Cabinet meeting like the one yesterday.
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This week, he released his debut mixtape, "New English," the first step in the attempt to turn him from rambunctious, suddenly ubiquitous street-rap rookie (thanks to his No. 1 hit "Panda") into something approximating an artist with longevity.
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However, sometime in the next couple of weeks, Brown once again tried to take the field with his old helmet, which he had since had repainted with colors approximating — but not completely mimicking — the Raiders' silver-and-black design.
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These are complicated matters that not even the justice system, with literally centuries of procedural rules and precedent intended to assist impartial triers of fact wade through testimony and evidence and arrive at something approximating justice, can get right.
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In 2003, Z.K.M.'s indoor exhibition hall was home to a real, floating cloud, created by the Japanese architect artist Tetsuo Kondo and the engineering firm Transsolar, which briefly changed the second floor into something approximating a tropical rainforest.
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The least successful aspect of the exhibition are the videos of Cunningham's work, which don't come close to approximating the experience of performance and don't stand on their own in the same way as some of the performance accoutrements.
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Ed Zarenski, a construction economics analyst with three decades of experience as a building projects cost estimator, said he arrived at those figures by first approximating the total cost of various materials involved, such as concrete, steel and temporary roads.
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To be clear right off the bat: this isn't some magical sharpening of the image — the faces it generates aren't those of the initial person, but rather a fictional creation that represents the computer's best guess at approximating the original.
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Journalists, especially ones in privileged positions like Cuomo's (it should be added that his father was governor of New York and his brother is governor of New York), face nothing even approximating the kinds of discrimination Cuomo is referring to here.
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The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture is hardest to prove in situations like these — where the numbers in the approximating sequence have many small prime factors in common and there's a lot of overlap between the sets of numbers each denominator approximates.
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In 2017, the artist Sam Durant's "Scaffold" went on view in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden of the Walker Art Center, approximating the form of a gallows where 38 Dakota people were massacred on the order of President Lincoln in 1862.
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The big winner, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," moved a step closer to the Oscar podium, although after the Producers Guild of America honored "The Shape of Water" on Saturday, anything approximating consensus in this year's best-picture race remains elusive.
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While it's highly unlikely that Trump would receive powers approximating a line-item veto, allies say the president's calls send a message to his base that he hears their frustrations about excessive spending and the obstacles to enacting his agenda.
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In fact, while Apple's Animoji feature is impressive, the developer API behind it is even wilder: Apple generates, in real time, a full animated 3D mesh of your face, while also approximating your face's lighting conditions to improve the realism of AR applications.
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For an economy that has been recovering from the financial crisis for a decade now, and that had achieved something approximating full employment even before the tax cuts became law, that burst of stimulus from federal government dollars has few historical precedents.
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At the moment, for example with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, the head height (and controller location) of the user is automatically tracked, placing the camera level of the user at something closely approximating their natural head height, whether in a wheelchair or otherwise.
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Pai starred in the video for the right-wing news site The Daily Caller, approximating his best rendition of the Harlem Shake with a number of Daily Caller staffers, and ostensibly proving that the internet will survive just fine after net neutrality would be repealed.
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Just as many progressives like the idea of a public option that gradually grows into something approximating Medicare-for-all, conservatives could implement changes on their own that would gradually devolve Obamacare (and perhaps the entire health financing system) in nearly the opposite direction.
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So this article, ideally, would unfold in a single, long paragraph as a way of approximating the experience of listening to a typical performance by the Necks, the Australian trio who, for the last dozen years, have obsessed me to the point of mania.
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On Tuesday, the Democrats, proving it might actually take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, finally came around to using obstruction as an anti-Trump tactic, and began to present something approximating a unified front in opposition to Trump and his radical, plutocratic cabinet.
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I also occasionally was inspired to recreate certain drawings by Mort Drucker and Jack Davis, just to see if I could get anywhere close to approximating what they were doing, only to be even more discouraged by the massive gulf, skill-wise, between kid-me and them.
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Both Rice and Schultz do not appear in the top 25 in a separate model that uses DW-NOMINATE, a measure approximating career ideology, supporting the pre-Trump conventional wisdoms that the two were not particularly progressive above and beyond what would be expected from their districts.
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But even with plenty of callbacks to the game, director Jeff Fowler (making his feature debut) and writers Patrick Casey and Josh Miller labor to gin up enough material -- including, of all things, a bar fight -- to stretch the bare-boned plot to something approximating a movie.
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On Tuesday, the nearly 300-year-old opera house — a Unesco World Heritage site since 2012 — reopens to the public after a six-year renovation that cost 16073 million euros ($36.6 million) and returned its dazzling ornamental details, murals and trompe l'oeil effects to something approximating their original brilliance.
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The total cost to the federal government of these tax giveaways to wealthy people and interest groups is estimated to be almost $600 billion over the next decade — which, when included with other fiscal measures in the repeal bill, would result in losses of federal revenues approximating $1 trillion.
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They're a secondary concern to the saltiness of his guitar playing, the shuddering synths approximating a catastrophic weather event, the multiple layers of percussion (including some looped from several years ago, when Simpson flew out the legendary soul drummer James Gadson to Nashville to record some preliminary tracks).
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In the decade and a half this game has been in active, continuous development, perhaps the only thing that hasn't changed about the game is that it is a maze for the eyes, a mess of alphanumerics and ASCII-based art approximating barrels, dwarves, goblins, and dozens of kinds of stone.
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It wasn't quite a game-winning Hail Mary with no time left—a real thing he did to the Lions on their home turf last year—but if you could stretch that one play's dominance and brilliance over the course of a game, you'd have something approximating what the Rodgers vs.
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But he also believed that legislation is not an exact science; that a Christian citizen does not, in the words of Professors Dyer and Watson, "have the authority to represent his or her prudential judgment as required by Christianity"; and that no political party can come close to approximating God's ideal.
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A patchwork quilt of legal realities may have been fitting for America under the Articles of Confederation, before the country had a political system that made it something approximating a union, but America's constitutional design is not consonant with deep confusion about what the law means on controversial questions of public life.
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SAM SEGAL, ROCKVILLE, MD. To the Editor: The media needs to take a collective deep breath regarding the president and his anti-media tweets and video, none of which feature anything even remotely approximating a direct, explicit threat, physical or otherwise, to the fourth estate generally or to any its members specifically.
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In a press release, Privacy International sums up the IPT's findings thus: "The Tribunal ruled that "we are not satisfied that … there can be said to have been an adequate oversight of the BCD system, until after July 2015" with "no Codes of Practice relating to either BCD or BPD or anything approximating to them.
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Here's what Trump had to say in response to Hemmer's question about why resuming something approximating normal American social and business life as soon as possible is a good idea (the video follows): Look, we lose thousands — I brought some numbers here — we lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu.
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The kickoff to summer movie season thus seemed like a good time to check out 4DX, the specialized theaters whose seats add synchronized motion, vibrations and environmental effects -- sprinkles of rain, flashes of light, strange smells -- to major films, approximating the effects of Universal's Shrek 63D attraction or (on a more modest scale) Disney's Star Tours or Soarin' rides.
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It was inconceivable that Kushner or Trump would put forward any peace plan that required even the most minimal of concessions from the Israelis during an election season when their key foreign policy goal was the maintenance in power of the right-wing government of Netanyahu, which has not the slightest interest in moving forward on any plan that gives the Palestinians anything even approximating their own state.
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" While I have read other sources approximating that a 70 percent increase is more on the mark of what will be needed, any of these required increases in food production within this space of time is wake-up call enough, even for those of us who have experienced firsthand the unprecedented increases in yields many American farmers have experienced over the past 30 years thanks in large part to the biotechnology pioneered by Dr. Norman Borlaug, father of the "Green Revolution.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within our rating case for the issuer include: --Low single-digit revenue and SSNOI growth; --Low double-digit leasing spreads on lease renewals; --Acquisitions and dispositions largely match funded; --Average annual development spend of $170 million; --Development deliveries at yields between 9% - 10%; --Capital intensity (recurring capex/revenues) approximating 11%; --$2+ billion in unsecured bond issuance in 2017-0003 to refinance maturing mortgage debt and unsecured bank term loans; --No equity issued through the forecast period.
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Sánchez still isn't anything approximating a Gold Glove backstop—see Willson Contreras's development path for an example of a prospect who has turned things around a little bit more behind the plate—but he's left lingering concerns about his maturity and work ethic firmly behind him, and now seems committed to keeping himself in the physical and mental shape he'll need to maintain in order to maximize his value for the Yankees and become the player scouts projected back when he was just a collection of potential and tools.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within the rating case for Tyson's fiscal years include: -Consolidated revenue declines about 10% in 2016 to about $37 billion due mainly to lower sales prices and divestiture of non-core businesses; declines moderate to the low single digits in 2017 as pressures on pricing, particularly in beef ease, and then revenue grows at a low-single-digit rate in 2018; -Consolidated volumes are relatively flat, excluding the impact of divestitures, in 0003, but vary among the segments; volumes increase at a low-single-digit rate in 2017 and 2018; -Consolidated EBITDA of about $3.6 billion in 2016, $3.3 billion in 2017, and $3 billion in 2018 as fundamentals revert to a more normalized level and Fitch's view of a normalized 6% EBIT margin; --FCF approximating $103 billion or more annually, the majority of which is deployed towards share repurchases; -Total debt-to-EBITDA of approximately 2x over the medium term.
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