Still, they existed as gay characters — and that mattered.
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Bumpa and Narny existed as if they had no history.
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Fan fiction has basically existed as long as the internet.
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To date, it's only existed as fancy computer renders and animations.
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But no such era ever existed, as Mike Konczal has written.
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Since time immemorial, American Indian tribes have existed as sovereign nations.
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Phones existed as self-contained microclimates designed for a few simple purposes.
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For decades, payments firms existed as a backwater in the banking landscape.
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They aren't timely issues, because they've existed as long as humanity has.
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For years, Steam has existed as an unmoderated space on the internet.
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"Sexual harassment" has only existed as a concept for about 40 years.
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Homecoming previously only existed as two six-episode seasons of elaborate audio storytelling.
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Certain iPhone apps have long existed as the uncool kids on your homescreen.
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I think Google forgot that even existed, as it's sometimes prone to do.
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For decades, payments firms have existed as a backwater in the banking landscape.
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At War existed as a New York Times blog from 2009 to 2016.
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After all, throwback Thursday has always existed as a standalone day for a reason.
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The rest existed as a long list of employee performance ratings to compete against.
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You see something that has existed as really an abstract possibility suddenly become real.
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Sinister statues called markayuq move like "howling carvings," having once existed as real people.
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In 2015, Dow and DuPont each existed as separate, publicly traded heavyweight chemical companies.
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Yet, since the dawn of antiquity, wine has existed as a romanticized cultural touchstone.
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As far as anyone remembers, that forum existed as far back as the 1990s.
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Since its launch, fiction startup Serial Box has existed as a desktop and iOS app.
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"Rock 'n' roll has always existed as a force in opposition to oppression," he says.
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Cultural appropriation is not a modern concept; it has existed as long as culture itself.
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The World Cup has not existed as it is forever; nor should it expect to.
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"Pikas have existed as a species for far longer than we, Homo sapiens, have," Stewart said.
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Neither Qatar nor the UAE existed as independent states when Israel humiliated Arab armies in 1967.
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Islamabad denied any such camps existed, as did some villagers in the area when Reuters visited.
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They've existed as part of the fabric of our public education system for over 25 years.
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Islamabad denied any such camps existed, as did local villagers in the area when Reuters visited.
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Yet in the end, the army of the dead almost entirely existed as a narrative contrivance.
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It's humans doing things we've done since we first existed as a species: running, jumping, throwing.
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By then he had gravitated toward graphics, which scarcely existed as a profession distinct from advertising.
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It once existed as an industrial landfill, and was frequently utilized as an illegal dumping ground.
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The law regulating that imaging, though, was first passed before satellite imaging really existed as an industry.
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What's ultimately most disappointing about Ofmatthew is that she existed as a character solely to be killed.
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For Bowie, technology "always existed as another instrument in his symphony," without distracting anyone from pure wonder.
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In 1965, critic Martin Esslin noted that the Theatre of the Absurd existed as a social tonic.
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For Finlay, like the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wrote the sonnet "Voyelles," language already existed as matter.
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In a pre-internet world they existed as flags on mailboxes or blinking lights on answering machines.
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Close your eyes and try to remember the world as it existed as recently as January 2015.
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While the two are friendly, Sanders has long existed as an outsider even with the Democratic Party.
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Musk tends to make things that either are useless or have existed as public utilities for decades.
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Desert Daze has existed as an antithesis to the festival industrial complex since its inception six years ago.
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I thought she was a miracle, the fact that she existed as a Jamaican woman who loved women.
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Indeed, like the rest of the population, I wasn't even aware that science existed as a human undertaking.
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Poncho existed as a daily text and email service for almost three years before launching its first app.
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For so long skaters have existed as a subculture, but they've also ended up manifested in popular culture.
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Some of these same problems persisted in Afghanistan, which existed as the forgotten war during the Iraq campaign.
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No traditions existed as to where people should sit, who speaks first, and other matters of governmental decorum.
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They argued that the African-American community existed as an internal colony dominated by racial hatred and violence.
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"Ghosting," even though it was first coined on Urban Dictionary in 2009, existed as a concept for eons.
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"From 1979 to 1996, Talossa existed as a completely 'real' community, based exclusively in Milwaukee," Madison told me.
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"I didn't even know it existed as a resource," a former congressional staffer told Politico of the compliance office.
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Until now, Lockbox only existed as a set of mobile apps, but Mozilla launched a Firefox desktop extension, too.
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Since the introduction of MTV in the 80s, videos have existed as expensive promotional material for singles and albums.
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However, it was not true multiplayer: other users existed as floating orbs that could only talk and nothing else.
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The death penalty has largely existed as a symbol for how we can exact the ultimate punishment on criminals.
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Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual.
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More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that were in place at the time existed as mechanical placebos.
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These new sources already existed as data compilations in one form or another before we got hold of them.
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She was prepared to live a life without that, so she existed as a knight on her own terms.
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Such proposals would be politically impossible in the sort of balanced budget environment that existed as recently as 2000.
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Clarification: Lands' End existed as a mail-order company for nearly four decades before Sears purchased the company in 2002.
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For months the plan existed as little more than a slogan and a catch-all for progressive hopes and dreams.
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The desire to cheat death, or at least uncover its mysteries, has existed as long as we've recorded our history.
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For a while at least, part of the label's magic was that it existed as a kind of pseudo-label.
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Our reporters noted a "peculiar sensation" in Washington, where pockets of eerie quiet existed as residents and others skipped town.
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Cognizant, whose shares were up 2397.2 percent at $265 in early trading, said the material weakness existed as of Dec.
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When Cap'n Jazz really existed as a band, a couple of us had real drug problems, which made it impossible.
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Localism barely existed as a political force until the Umbrella Movement ended, having failed to extract any promises of full democracy.
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For Ailes, women existed to be put on display, and dominated; other men existed as audiences for his displays of domination.
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Goofy accessories have existed as long as video game consoles have, and looking back, the Hot Stik was a genuine failure.
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"Understanding the composition of the lunar mantle is critical for testing whether a magma ocean ever existed as postulated," they wrote.
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The latter had existed as a California public benefit corporation, and now it will be converting into a California business corporation.
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Of course, like most things, technology has amplified and accelerated them, but their backbones have existed as long as relationships have.
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For about a year it existed as a terrible J-pop style recording that I loved but everyone else absolutely hated.
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Although before this, we were skeptical that the Egg even existed, as the company had only published renders of the devices.
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So you know that being bought by an existing firm is a good option and has always existed as an option.
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To their white classmates and teachers, each existed as one half of a singular whole: the new black boys on campus.
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In a way, though, Robinson's music has always existed as a rebuke of that world, even as he inhabits its outskirts.
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Val only existed as a hologram for most of season 1, and he's even less of a compelling character in the flesh.
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She's spent four decades releasing pure pop bangers that are iconic before they even existed as a vague thought in her head.
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The 2016 sequel — we'll forget the 2000 one existed, as Lionsgate seems to have done — is an attempt to bring it back.
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Prior to this study, scientists thought the disease only existed as several strains, only two of which were present in Medieval Europe.
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That means there must have been some other factor that warmed Mars up enough so that surface water existed as a liquid.
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New Horizon's flyby of Pluto has given scientists an unimaginable amount of data, considering it's previously only existed as a pixelated blob.
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Before the sale to Sequential, Stewart's brands existed as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a company she formed after buying out Time Inc.
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As such, you'd be forgiven for not even knowing it existed, as the Pixel line has not been an especially hot seller.
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It already existed as a giant tabletop touchscreen, meant primarily as a kind of interactive kiosk for retail businesses, restaurants, and hotels.
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Despite its natural resources, educated population, rich history and geographic size, Iran has existed as a pariah state since its 1979 revolution.
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Basically, these products existed as loss leaders of sorts for Microsoft, ways to ensure that the mainstream public got hooked on computers.
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The sibling companies under the Redstone family's National Amusements corporation had, at various points in their histories, existed as one corporate entity.
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It was those spaces, where downtown existed as a state of mind as much as a place, that held my attention longest.
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None of that existed as part of the collective consciousness before, which is hard to imagine, given just how much it does now.
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A few joke posts were permanently calcified on the front page but it mostly existed as a silly, private running gag between friends.
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He was interested in embodying this very horrible position that people were taking and then it really existed as a moment in time.
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Or, to put it another way, if A New Hope never existed as a film, Rogue One would still tell a complete story.
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The flag for the United Kingdom had existed as an emoji since 2015, but those regions wanted flags to use during soccer matches.
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Sheridan believes that the idea of gang-stalking has always existed as a delusion, but that the internet has helped it to grow.
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There's so much language beyond English, beyond academic understandings of transness and queerness, in which our people have always existed as trans bodies.
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So far, Narcos: Mexico has existed as a relatively standalone installment of Narcos, placing a similar format onto a new set of characters.
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Courtship traditions have existed as long as cultures have accepted the concept of romantic love (though many believe they're mostly a Western thing).
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For much of its history, Netflix existed as a complement rather than a substitute for pay TV, but that's now starting to change.
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It's long existed as a large and diverse, albeit fragile, alliance between Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives who believed in education choice.
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Broadcast began as a quartet, but for the last six years, existed as a duo comprised of musicians Trish Keenan and James Cargill.
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Pan Am hasn't existed as an airline since 1991, but its blue globe logo endures as a familiar icon of the Jet Age.
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These appeals to an imagined objectivity, where "objectivity" really means "more reflective of my worldview," have existed as long as criticism has existed.
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My advice to anyone who's a bit lost in club culture, is that it is a culture that existed as a response to society.
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Since 1971, Burger King has existed as an Australian franchise called Hungry Jack's, as the Burger King name had already been trademarked in Australia.
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Perry Capital has since largely existed as a "zombie fund," in which it has owned Barneys but has not put more money into it.
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MOLD has existed as an online publication and Instagram account for more three years yet Yuan says that food design is still largely understood.
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Mitochondria have their own genome, which is likely to be a hangover from a time when they may have existed as free-living organisms.
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Independence is relatively new to Belarus, which, apart from a few months in 1918, has always existed as the territory of a bigger state.
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From cutting costs to growing sales Mondelez International (MDLZ) has only existed as an independent company since 2012, when it split from Kraft Foods.
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This was the New York that had existed as a part of his rural imagination, before he graduated from Harvard and moved to Astoria.
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Similar to the early albums of Eno, Roedelius and Moebius, Renner's sketches were strongly indebted to place but existed as their own sonic landscape.
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From then into the 1970s, the United Kingdom existed as a coherent economic, political and ideological unit, distinct from the rest of the world.
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"Candle Cove" is an unnerving puppet show that supposedly ran on public access television decades ago — but actually only existed as an internet legend.
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Scotland was politically unified with England back in 1707 but has always existed as not just a distinct administrative unit but a distinctive country.
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India said it struck at militant training camps, but Islamabad denied any such camps existed, as did some villagers in the area when Reuters visited.
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Some films at the festival existed as a means of healing scars, such as the poetic and traumatic Primas, also a personal work of film.
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In 1912, when Nathan Handwerker, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, arrived in New York, Coney Island already existed as a kind of extraterritorial pleasure zone.
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It seems to have been a completely made-up thing which existed as an idea only in the letters Chung sent to his ExCo colleagues.
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It was almost intended to make a mark, to announce that we existed as a band, almost like a well put-together set of demos.
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For more than 93 years, the piece, "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter," only existed as a demo, though Costello performed it live on several occasions.
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When the grown-ups first believed Big Bird that Snuffleupagus existed as a way to let children know adults would believe their stories of abuse.
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Apple Music, which initially existed as a music service before replacing iTunes, launched in 2015 and replaced Beats Music, which also had a web version.
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"Racial health disparities have existed as long as medicine has existed in this country," said Brian Smedley, executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity.
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The Infiniti Prototype 9, based on a 1940s model, was most on message, a fictional reference to a time before Infiniti even existed as a company.
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Tony Defries and Shep Gordon were key figures in marketing groups like Cherry Vanilla—groups that were key for Bowie and existed as products in America.
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Perhaps because those beings existed as thin bars of blue light, incapable of offensive or defensive action, they'd puzzle over our armor, our rifles, our grenades.
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And for as much as the army of the dead barely existed as a concept within the show, the Golden Company has remained almost entirely offscreen.
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Many subjects in the portraits are uncommon, and at least one is so rarely seen that it only existed as a painting in a museum drawer.
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Until the 1960s, it existed as a tree nursery on Rikers Island, where inmates were tasked with caring for thousands of plants for the Parks Department.
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The more I heard things like that, the more I worried my particulars didn't matter; I existed as a caricature for somebody else's idealized war story.
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Certainly, some of them, as the sociologist C. Wright Mills argued in his indispensable book, "The Power Elite," existed as a dubious means of self-dealing.
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At the time, it mostly existed as a more open alternative to Oculus' native browser for the Samsung Gear VR and Google's experimental Daydream version of Chrome.
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Users on an typography message board revealed that Canada 150, the typeface unveiled to celebrate Canada's sequicentennial, already existed as a free font under a different name.
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Since the novel's publication three decades ago, Gilead has existed as a paper nightmare that gains or loses dimension based on the state of our national politics.
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Still, rentals of evening dresses or designer items by Chanel or Louis Vuitton have long existed, as have co-investments in assets including private jets and yachts.
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When Orwell visited Wigan, however, the working class existed as a clear socioeconomic category defined by backbreaking work for near-starvation wages in coal mines and factories.
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"They tended to play defense, trying to protect what already existed as opposed to playing offense and try to create what the future would be," he said.
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She has primarily existed as a foil to Burnham's dreariness throughout the season, and outside of that, we've really seen her be only meek, nerdy and nervous.
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Flanders has existed as a political entity since the Middle Ages, encompassing the territory around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres, but never achieved full sovereignty.
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Mixer, which was originally called Beam, was acquired by Microsoft in 2016, and it has existed as a potential competitor to Twitch and YouTube Gaming ever since.
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Ward&aposs approach isn&apost necessarily new: It&aposs existed as a way sex workers have raised money for past causes, such as the Amazon rainforest fires.
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It existed as early as 19833, when Brooklyn was an independent city, and the flag has not changed since (even when Brooklyn became a borough in 1898).
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And until the latest scandals involving Virginia's governor and others, the matter of Zulu's black makeup existed as just another long-accepted quirk of America's quirkiest city.
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This discovery and classification for Decennatherium reveals that the sivathere-samothere line is millions of years older than previously thought, and had existed as far north as Europe.
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And unlike European automakers, which re-established their prewar reputations relatively quickly, "made in Japan" largely existed as a pejorative, synonymous with cheap manufacturing methods and flimsy construction.
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Websites existed as static objects, power was still centralized, and there were still gatekeepers—those who had access to albums and press releases ahead of the general public.
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While it had existed as a trading port along important Middle Eastern trade routes since the 2141s, its main industry was pearling, which dried up after the 23s.
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If braceros were shadow workers with nebulous rights, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers who came in the wake of the program existed as shadows of shadows.
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A company spokesperson noted during our conversation that consumers/hobbyists only existed as the primary market for the company early on, while it was still selling wooden kits.
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Researchers studied burial remains from a medieval cemetery connected with a women's monastery in Germany, where they believe a women's community existed as early as the 10th century.
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For decades, the Office of Government Ethics has existed as a mouse of an agency, focused on the bureaucratic work of properly filled out forms and training employees.
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While much of its initial attention was largely written off as a lazy "lack of new ideas," the term has always existed as a loose joke among enthusiasts.
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But the person said use of the bland term was intended to neither confirm nor deny that the investigation existed — as was standard Justice Department and F.B.I. practice.
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The nonprofit organization I run, the Supportive Children's Advocacy Network, better known as SCAN New York, has literally existed as a Yankees neighbor for more than three decades.
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A backup system was in place for all video on the unit, but the requested footage no longer existed "as a result of technical errors," the government added.
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Rodin's work has long existed as a statement on what figurative sculpture is supposed to look like: stridently evocative of human expression and greatness, agonized, and seemingly immortal.
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With this record, Skinner documented an ambiance that's existed as long as pubs and clubs have been around, yet hasn't been described with such poignancy before or since.
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Though the general consensus that Russia was behind the attacks appears to have existed as far back as the summer of 2016, the attribution was not released until October.
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It nixed the following tab in October, which had existed as far back as 2011 as a tool for keeping an eye on what posts your friends interact with.
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How it was put into play — as it played through the auction houses, as it played through the whole process of brand identification, as it existed as an object.
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"Without having a killer application, Bitmoji just existed as a novelty and Facebook wasn't a killer platform for it," said Brian Solis, an analyst covering social media at Altimeter Group.
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Waymo, which previously existed as Google's Self-Driving Car project, also recently took a number of steps towards making its primarily research-focused organization more of a potential revenue center.
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The Danbocchi personal cardboard studio has existed as far back as 2013, but measuring just over five-feet-tall, they required most adults to uncomfortably crouch when they climbed inside.
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And in recent years, #SayHerName has existed as separate entity to acknowledge the women impacted by anti-Black violence as male victims dominated news cycles and Black Lives Matter conversations.
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There was also the joy of seeing the video of Calder playing with his "Circus," which has existed as a somewhat sad, immobile display at the Whitney Museum of Art.
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As Coates told the Intercept earlier this year, Obama existed as a "conservative revolutionary" — someone who believes thoroughly in American institutions and ideas and in their inherent power for good.
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" But let's focus on what's eye-opening about "Wild Nights," including Reiss's very premise: "Virtually nothing about our standard model of sleep existed as we know it two centuries ago.
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That tissue is solder, the meltable filler metal that has existed in one form or another for more than 23,26 years—long before electronics even existed as a modern context.
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It was meant to depict an alternate-timeline version of America in which the Civil War ended with the Southern states successfully seceding and American slavery still existed as a result.
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Instantly, the darkness made me feel like I no longer existed as a human being and as if my consciousness had teleported inside of the Jackson Browne song I was playing.
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Due to the fact that the Kickstarter campaign was over before Peachy Printer existed as a corporation, we did not have a corporate bank account set up to receive the funds.
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I was like, a shy teenager who had a pretty decent load I was carrying in terms of personal stuff, so Cap'n Jazz really existed as this necessary need to scream.
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The Dodgers and Red Sox franchises — among the most storied in Major League Baseball — met in the World Series once before, in 1916, when the Dodgers existed as the Brooklyn Robins.
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Concerned about communists (imagine Democrats being concerned about communists), Truman required all employees to have their behavior monitored and if reasonable doubt existed as to their loyalty, they would be dismissed.
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Despite recent moves to diversify the comic book image, the superhero has existed as a reflection of white heteronormative power and culture, with very few versions being authored by minority storytellers.
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Any discussion of Scotch whisky nowadays is dominated by the single malts, which hardly existed as a category back when I was stealthily sniffing from the bottles in my parents' cabinet.
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Raised in a house where the main source of income was a drug-addict carpenter, money never existed as a stable, reasonable thing to me but was instead mysterious and vengeful.
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Bugatti has always existed as a showcase for VW's engineering prowess, but the world is increasingly losing interest in a car that can drain its 26-gallon fuel tank in eight minutes.
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The entity has long existed as a proxy to Alibaba — some might argue Yahoo was the same in its final years — and the sale is expected to net shareholders around $40 billion.
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Facebook has experimented with polls in the past: the feature perviously existed as far back as 2007 for advertisers and marketers, and was available in Groups and Events for polling members / attendees.
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The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) has been around for the last five years or so, but its software suite, Ooniprobe, only existed as command line-installable a desktop software package.
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Transformed into a tapestry in 2007 by a digital loom, "Oum el Dounia" first existed as a mishmash of archival material and Baladi's personal pictures that she began piecing together in 2000.
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It is almost as if this association has always existed as we see it, and the elements, which constitute the work, were designed to align the way the artist has positioned them.
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But he seems less certain whether other copies might not have existed as he says the company "began the process of searching for and removing any of its derivatives in our system".
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WARF sits partially in the gorgeous Discovery Building a couple of blocks away from UW's historic Camp Randall Stadium, which originally existed as a Union Army training camp during the Civil War.
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However, as Gossip Girl, Dan's power existed as a monopoly in a way that no Twitter celebrity or Vine star could: The blog had an airtight seal on its tiny social kingdom.
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Online harassment of sex workers has existed as long as sex workers have been online — and it has often served as a harbinger of what's to come for non-sex-working harassment victims.
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Grossman and Jake Davis, a former LulzSec hacker, confirmed that the bug existed as of Tuesday morning and analyzed the potential attacks that bad guys could do if they were to exploit it.
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Wall Street has long existed as a parallel universe where leaders cast by critics in the media as autocratic villains can be feted as heroes if their actions bode well for the economy.
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It's no accident that the past-mining operation that has always existed as a subgenre of queer art is intensifying now, just as the history of other disenfranchised groups is finding wider audiences.
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The news, announced onstage at the trade show MIPCOM in Cannes, France, marks one of the first original Facebook shows — outside the documentary and news realm — to have existed as a traditional cable program.
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Islamabad denied any such camps existed, as did local villagers in the area, but Pakistan on Wednesday retaliated with its own aerial mission, that led to both sides claiming to have shot down jets.
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More precisely, the idea was to break it down like this: That Democratic plan was always going nowhere but it existed as a trial balloon to test one potential theory of Trump-era governance.
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Wealthy owners have long understood how to game local and state tax breaks to enrich themselves and finance their businesses, and stadiums have long existed as a monument to disrupting and displacing the poor.
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Unlike those whose parents have been together since they were born, Miller's stepfather didn't even know her mother existed as she was in the hospital about to have the child who would become his daughter.
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Talking point: Over the years, Yamashiro has existed as a boys' military school, an apartment block, and the HQ for Hollywood's famed '400 Club', which attracted Golden Era stars including Roman Navarro and Lilian Gish.
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Art Review Folk art barely existed as a term, much less a category in the years just before 1920, when it became a presiding passion of the Polish-born American sculptor Elie Nadelman (1882-1946).
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It had existed as a phrase for some time, but it wasn't until two black men died in the summer of 2014 that Black Lives Matter began to flicker to life as a Twitter hashtag.
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The Timberwolves have existed as a franchise for 30 seasons and not only have not won a championship, but they have only made it out of the first round of the playoffs once — in 2004.
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Why did it matter to him so much whether his goodness was true — why wasn't he satisfied merely that it existed, as proof that the population-level phenomena he studied did not determine individual destiny?
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The Museum of Broken Relationships has other international ties, too, having been created by a former couple in Zagreb, Croatia in 2006, where it existed as a traveling show before becoming a permanent museum in 2010.
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Rather, Nintendo was reinventing the retro console, which has long existed as a series of crummy knock-offs sold behind the counter at drug stores and in the back of your local Bed Bath and Beyond.
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And nowhere is that more evident than in its marquee annual fashion show, which since 123 has existed as a stagnant display of uber-thin and mostly white models clad in millions of dollars of rhinestones.
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The company's public feed originally existed as a way to publicize the service and raise awareness, as Venmo product lead Melanie Aliperti explained to The Verge, which may be why Samsung feels it needs social media.
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TPP also included provisions governing e-commerce and cross-border data flows -- sectors that barely existed as NAFTA was negotiated in the early 1990s -- to better protect intellectual property and ensure a free and open internet.
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The enterprise existed as a site for artistic cross-production, where musicians, graphic designers, photographers, and other artists could work and collaborate in a creative environment — decked out with Star Wars paraphernalia and vinyl KAWS figurines.
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While Celine, Shania, and Alanis have certainly worked in America's pop framework, they succeeded before a time of streaming and digital sales existed, as well as during a period less dictated by rigorous touring and promotion.
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It has existed as part of Health and Human Services since 1987— independent of the CDC, in other words—and its board is made up of doctors and scientists from a variety of well-respected, independent institutions.
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Coinciding with the two-year anniversary of Justice League's theatrical release, last month the Snyder Cut — which until now has mostly existed as a myth spread by word of mouth among fans — was one of those instances.
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These allegations existed as essentially part of the background noise of the campaign until James Comey's late-October letter telling Congress that Anthony Weiner's laptop contained emails that might be relevant to the investigation into Clinton's email server.
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I Can Only Imagine came from what has largely existed as a miniature parallel Christian showbiz universe with its own big-name filmmakers, its own festivals, its own recurring stars (like Kirk Cameron, Sarah Drew, and Kevin Sorbo).
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Real actual clowns are protesting because of this, a goddamn adaptation of a Stephen King novel that previously existed as a 1989 TV miniseries you probably thought was good because you were a child when you saw it.
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Sleep Number's adjustable beds have seemingly existed as long as infomercials have ruled late-night TV, but in recent years the company has bolstered the technology inside the beds so users can do more than just adjust their firmness.
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The divide between New York prosecutors and civil rights officials in Washington, DC, existed as well under the Obama administration, creating a stalemate that left the case unresolved before Donald Trump was elected President in 2016, CNN has reported.
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But real estate wealth in China rests on a tenuous definition of ownership, particularly so when it comes to the old houses granted to people by their work units in the days before a property market existed as such.
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Yes, we're talking about McDonald's Szechuan sauce, a condiment that absolutely everyone had forgotten about until an episode of Rick and Morty reminded us that it once existed as part of a promotion for the Disney animated film Mulan.
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For the next three-plus years, MSQRD existed as a kind of zombie app, available to download but without updates to keep it fresh, with its once-enthusiastic userbase long evaporated — as Facebook's own AR grew progressively more sophisticated.
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The belief that whatever compact existed as a result of the New Deal and its many more recent derivatives has shattered is a factor leading to the seemingly unstoppable rise of Mr. Trump in the race for the Republican nomination.
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"Understanding the composition of the lunar mantel is critical for testing whether a magma ocean ever existed, as postulated," said Li Chunlai, study author and professor of the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in a statement.
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No one can agree on who invented it, as various forms of the spread may have existed as early as the 13th century, yet people of different nationalities, ethnicities, and beliefs across the Middle East will readily attest to its deliciousness.
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Between then and now, Pullman has given Lyra a starring role in a couple of novellas, slight little things that mostly existed as a chance to revisit the rich mythology of the world of dæmons and witches in which she lives.
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There have been variations and improvements on Painter's invention, but bottle openers have existed as a real-life thing for 125 years, which is why no one, under any circumstances, should use a goddamn chopstick to try to open their beer.
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Peach, which never truly caught on and has for most of its life only existed as a barely alive platform, functions as the same kind of private clubhouse for people who use it, a small party where no one is listening.
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It essentially provided all 30 teams with a mulligan, the chance to shed any contract that solely existed as a buzzkill towards their cap and potential luxury tax payment, so long as it was signed before the 2011-12 season.
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In the contemporary sea lamprey scene, there has been heavy debate about whether or not this was a piece of toffee or different candy, mainly due to the fact that toffee hasn't existed as long as prikkenbijters have been around.
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The assumption had been that Pluto existed as a sort of half-meteor-half-planet, constantly being reduced and belittled in the press as moons like Europa gained favor and the Martian and Lunar colonies solidified themselves so migration could begin.
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For the next 50 years, the Hall of Fame existed as a museum next to a small stadium — owned by the local school district — that attracted football enthusiasts and the N.F.L. once a year for its induction ceremony and preseason game.
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United matched City here, for 45 minutes or so, but only through gritting its teeth and straining its sinews; it could not live with the club that has existed, as the saying goes, forever in its shadow for sheer class.
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These self-styled poll watchers were armed with revolvers; they also sported two-way radios and armbands reading "National Ballot Security Task Force" (even though no such organization existed as anything other than a voter-intimidation arm of the RNC).
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This week, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of Justice League's theatrical release, the Snyder Cut — which until now has mostly existed as a myth spread by word of mouth among fans — is the closest it's ever been to reality.
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The next day, Mr. Spicer seemed to shift gears, suggesting to reporters in his daily briefing that the White House did not believe that an investigation into the wiretapping of Mr. Trump existed, as the president had suggested on Twitter.
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" Under the new rule, streaming services are defined by the Academy as "paid subscription, full catalogue, on-demand streaming/limited download platforms that have existed as such within the United States for at least one full year as of the submission deadline.
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Paramilitary groups, the most active of which is called C14, have existed as a form of "art critics" since 2009, when they first burnt down the Gudimov Centre for its presentation of a book with a provocative name: 120 Pages of Sodome.
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Rick and Hershel discussing Maggie's future or Rick tearing up over killing Shane were powerful moments that excused the fact that they only existed as the delirious visions of a dying man who somehow keeps escaping a literal army of the undead.
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There's an ongoing debate about whether Trump's attitude toward Muslims and other minorities in the US is an aberration from the trajectory of mainstream American political life or in fact a distillation of values that have existed as subtexts throughout its history.
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Found beneath the forest floor near Angkor Wat using lidar (like radar, but with lasers), these cities of the Khmer Empire show complex water systems built centuries before the underlying technology was believed to have existed, as well as highways connecting major settlements.
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White nationalists do it in Britain and France when they want to claim that the country "belongs" somehow to white people, looking back to an imaginary time of long-lost racial purity (a time that never existed, as Mary Beard patiently explained recently).
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Vader Immortal: Episode I Vader Immortal: Episode II Vader Immortal: Episode III Although The Last Guardian's VR game came out two years ago and only ever existed as a demo, it's still a worthy download to experience the platform at its finest.
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North, which previously existed as Thalmic Labs and created the Myo gesture control armband, recognized that they were building control devices optimized for exactly this kind of application, but also found that no one was yet getting wearable tech like smart glasses right.
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Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini exchange, an early bitcoin investor and an outspoken supporter of the cryptocurrency, said the risk the wider market would suffer badly if one exchange went down no longer existed, as trading volume had become more evenly spread.
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Buttons have existed as a way of fastening clothes since thousands of years BC, but over the last few millennia no one's been able to explain the provenance of a rather curious buttoning practice: Why do men's and women's clothing have buttons on opposite sides?
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Now here comes Colson Whitehead (bestselling author of Zone One and Sag Harbor) and with an extraordinary new take: What if the Underground Railroad physically existed – as a vast labyrinth of secret tunnels that ran north right under the noses of slave-owners and slave-catchers?
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Trump rolls out a 'hard-power' spending plan — and now the budget battle begins Schumer says Democrats will 'emphatically oppose' Trump's proposed cuts Paul Ryan backs House committee: 'No such wiretap existed,' as Trump claims Nearly 60 members of Congress are seriously worried about GOP Obamacare replacement.
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Read more: YouTube will reportedly stop serving targeted ads on videos for kids in a move that could cost it tens of millions of dollars per yearThough YouTube Kids has existed as an app since 2015, YouTube has never been a separate website designed for children. Youtubekids.
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Because, you see, while the ketwurst was originally presented to the people of the East German Republic as an intrinsically East German dish, the ketwurst could only actually exist—could only have ever existed—as a response to the hot dog; a Soviet reaction to capitalist America.
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All along, Mikova has had its own off-kilter identity as part of Ruthenia, a nation that existed as a political entity for just one day in 1939, but that survived for centuries as a separate culture and language in the borderlands between Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland.
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Since 2008, Arts in the Armed Forces has existed as a kind of matchmaker for members of the military and the theater community, inviting renowned playwrights, actors and directors to perform for, interact with and, hopefully, enrich patrons who may be better equipped for literal minefields than emotional ones.
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To begin with, the major bowl games and the playoff occur a month after the conference title games, and with N.F.L.-bound stars increasingly sitting them out rather than risk injury in games that have historically existed as warm-weather junkets for well-heeled friends of the program.
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Rumors about Weinstein had reportedly existed as a "whisper network" for decades before dozens of women came forward in the New York Times and the The New Yorker; it took only four days after the first of those reports were published for Weinstein to be fired from the company that bears his name.
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The circus existed as an American constellation because it represented some of the country's ideological building blocks and the pieces of its mythology: outlaws and outcasts; men, women, and beast scraped from the fringes of society, nomads and pioneers, packed on a train, chugging through an unfamiliar land to spread the good word.
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As one striking example, the National Arbitration Forum, formerly the leading arbitral institution used by financial entities in debt collection actions, was forced by the Minnesota attorney general to shut down all its consumer arbitration because of the bias that existed as a result of its extensive ties, financial and otherwise, to the very financial entities arbitrating before it.
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For 30 years, the ball scene had existed as an Alice-through-the-looking-glass emulation of privilege and prestige, a temporary escape hatch for kids who by virtue of being born poor, minority, and gay and/or transgender could not do anything more than masquerade at what they wished to become — rich, powerful, successful, accepted.
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For a Chinese news organization to publicize the government's censorship of the news media is highly unusual, and it comes less than three weeks after President Xi Jinping made a high-profile visit to some leading state-controlled news organizations, including China Central Television and the news agency Xinhua, telling them that they existed as propaganda tools for the Communist Party.
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In the comic books, Monica is a grown woman who has existed as a superhero since her first appearance in 1982's Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 16, written by Roger Stern and drawn by John Romita Jr. In that story, Spider-Man notices Monica on the street and tries to help her after she is assaulted by a couple of ruffians.
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MOCA PDC's closure doesn't represent a loss of something that tangibly existed as much as the loss of an almost-realized fantasy even more attractive now, when the by-appointment Broad Museum and Marciano Foundation bring more flash than content to Los Angeles's institutional landscape: a museum space with no lines, ticket offices, or barriers to entry, with modest, serious programming informed by its neighborhood.
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Today, the Women's World Games are a largely forgotten chapter in the struggle for women's equality, but from 1922 to 1934, they existed as a kind of middle finger to the IOC and the International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body for track and field, both of which disdained and were to some degree frightened by the first-wave feminists who wanted to compete.
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