Smart people are particularly apt to get distracted by their own galloping thoughts.
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With that name he was more apt to get through to people on the telephone.
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Americans are more apt to get behind the wheel at the moment thanks to relatively reasonable fuel costs.
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An impressive body of research demonstrates that if you live in substandard housing, you're more apt to get sick.
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Among the rank and file, you're apt to get different answers, as I did, depending on who you ask.
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If a writer sets out with too much ambition — even the ambition to publish a story — she's already apt to get in her own way.
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Easy and delicious, they're the kind of dishes that are not only beloved but also apt to get you cooking more in the new year.
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The search results are best when you're looking for something very specific in a small window of time and even then you're apt to get curveballs.
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Mr. Ryan and Mr. Vance acknowledged that defense lawyers who had good relationships with prosecutors were apt to get an earlier crack at discovery than others.
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"The personality most apt to get into trouble is often a high commitment athlete who is willing to do whatever it takes to succeed," Chirban added by email.
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Whereas with oral — or aural — history, you don't know where the interviews will take you, and you are apt to get surprises, pleasant and (rarely) unpleasant, as the case may be.
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Judging by Murphy's teeming to-do list — series about Andy Warhol and Marlene Dietrich, a film of "The Boys in the Band," documentaries — they're apt to get all of those and then some.
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The '30s provide a jarring backdrop to all of this discontent, a time when making reference to a "Bolshevik uprising" actually wasn't all that long ago, and the action unfolds with a western vibe, where people are as apt to get around on horses as in cars.
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What I'm worried about is, when you have an economy that is growing as feebly as it is for as long in the business cycle as it's been — and it's only being driven by only one sector, meaning the consumer — we're more prone or apt to get hit by some negative, exogenous shock.
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I think more and more the LGBTQ creators in Hollywood are realizing that there are so many LGBTQ points of view that if you're not bringing in people that have certain experiences to help guide your creative process — either as a full-time part of the production or as a consultant — then you're very apt to get it wrong.
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And Herbert Heller is a real "Americun". Only once a year he's apt to get drunk and shoot up the place. This year, as Mike and Sarah stand listening to Christmas carolers and enjoy being together, he comes upon them, carrying a shotgun in one hand, and Old Glory in the other. When he demands that Mike pledge allegiance to the flag, then and there, it gets kind of tight.
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The basket rims at the arena were aged, flimsy, and forgiving. Balls would bounce off of typical firm rims, whereas balls near the rim in Hershey were apt to get a good roll and fall in.Pomerantz 2005, p.116–7 Playing all 48 minutes of the game, Chamberlain set NBA records for field goals attempted (63) and made (36), free throws made (28), most points in a quarter (31), and half (59).
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Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962, pp. 84–107.] discussions, and wrote in his autobiography: > [They] are extremely apt to get drunk, and when so are very quarrelsome & > disorderly...indeed if it be the Design of Providence to extirpate these > Savages in order to make room for Cultivators of the Earth, it seems not > improbable that Rum may be the appointed Means. It has already annihilated > all the Tribes who formerly inhabited the Sea-coast.
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Reviewer Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times wrote of the singing, "...one wishes there was more of it and less of the somewhat futile attempt at a story" and noted that Bill Robinson "...gives an excellent exhibition of tap dancing, which won a genuine round of applause" and concluded, "The early glimpses of the circus theatre ... lead one to expect more than one is apt to get out of this production." The film reunited the director and most of the cast of RKO's most successful film of the year before, Rio Rita, but lackluster performances and direction, as well as a glut of movie musicals led to the film being one of RKO's biggest disappointments of 1930. The film lost an estimated $300,000.
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