Because of the Communist revolution, we don't appreciate it now, but in the 1930s, Hong Kong was nothing special at all, Singapore was nothing special at all.
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For Irani, there's nothing special about AI in this story.
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It's happening all the time, and sadly, it's nothing special.
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The taco itself was nothing special, but still pretty tasty.
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But at heart, there is nothing special about sex work.
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But those health care plans had nothing special for Alaska.
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Sharp readers will realize Caviar's fidget spinner as nothing special.
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There is nothing special or even uniquely "Russian" about them.
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It's nothing special, but it will get the job done.
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The bright lighting and simple shelving structures were nothing special.
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As for the snow itself, Barjenbruch said it's nothing special.
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Juan Guaidó is an ordinary guy, nothing special about him.
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In that sense, Darth Vader in Pink is nothing special.
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It's just a sandwich; there is nothing special about it.
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It also suggests that there is nothing special about Earth.
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In fact, there was really nothing special about the view.
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As for the actual controls, they're fine but nothing special.
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So far, there was nothing special about my Pokémon Go experience.
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The backyard was flat and it had nothing special going on.
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DBS's overall return on equity last year was 22%: nothing special.
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The ports are, with the exception of USB-C nothing special.
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Last year, in a nothing-special bar in Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
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The velocity was just as Curtis had described it, nothing special.
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"There's nothing special in the genetics," Michael Schwieterman, a biochemist, said.
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"Agave's really got nothing special in it whatsoever," Harris-Pincus says.
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It's about the same amount as Airpods, but still nothing special.
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Nothing special or remotely controversial, just an everything with cream cheese.
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But that's an actor's job — to turn nothing special into something.
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"They're not supernatural, they're not the devil, they're nothing special," she said.
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For the next 10m years or so, however, dinosaurs are nothing special.
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There was nothing special about this outpost, no special upgrade to find.
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Oh ok, so that guy did nothing special or nothing so great?
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I went on one or two dates, but they were nothing special.
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He thought there had been nothing special about the way he played.
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Her hair is pulled back indifferently, and her clothing is nothing special.
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"There's nothing special or memorable about me," he said at one point.
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Ultimately, "there's nothing special about our story or about us," Cahill says.
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The shoes are nothing special and grossly overpriced, but I suspect that's intentional.
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It has a nice, premium design, but it's nothing special other than that.
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I see nothing special in evoking a memory that isn't true to reality.
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They were as statuesque and stately as they should've been, though nothing special.
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LG has pared down the phone so much that it's really nothing special.
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The music was good but there was nothing special about the songs, melodically.
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There is virtually nothing special about Amazon's latest tablet, the Fire HD 8.
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He finds nothing special about democratic values, and nothing objectionable about murderous rulers.
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If we went out there in cutoff shirts, there's nothing special about that.
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Those fights were alright, as fights go, but they were certainly nothing special.
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In essence, these forecasters are saying that nothing special is on the horizon.
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The food at the wedding was typical wedding fare — good, but nothing special.
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On its own, the man's handgun is nothing special: just a hunk of metal.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials claim there was nothing special about her case.
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"I was just a homecoming queen; there's nothing special about that," Deserae told KSTU.
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He's perfect for this part mostly because there's nothing special about him at all.
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But video is nothing special on the ZenFone Zoom; it doesn't even do 4K.
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"I'm nothing special in the eyes of the people in control here," Carson notes.
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It's nothing special, but again, it's as good or better than the French version.
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The rain cover itself is nothing special; a lot of bags have similar covers.
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When compared with my classmates at Pomona College, however, my intelligence is nothing special.
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The scenery is nothing special (and doesn't change), so the drive is very monotonous.
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There was nothing special about my sexuality or body now; nothing to wait for.
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Robotic floor cleaners are nothing special anymore, and pretty much everyone knows about them.
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"There is nothing special about us; we're just in a special position," Jennings said.
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I make my wife laugh once or twice in the house, but nothing special.
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On one level, there was nothing special or unique about the Eight Men Out.
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If it's nothing special, no one goes looking after a certain amount of time.
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A plain, used, nothing-special, first generation Pokémon card will net you between $1-$3.
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US immigration officials say there was nothing special about the case of Garcia de Rayos.
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Standin' at the edge of a dream gettin' ready to jump, nothing special in itself.
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The interest this year has come despite a period that was nothing special return-wise.
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The place looks like any old storefront, just a wall and a door, nothing special.
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Nothing special, but in Fallout 4, I once made the most disgusting-looking character ever.
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A spokeswoman for the embassy added there was nothing "special or extraordinary" about his death.
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But in the context of tennis history, Mr Murray's trio of titles is nothing special.
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I probably won a few more than I lost, but nothing special on the mat.
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"I can assure you that there is nothing special, nothing criminal there," Mr. Putin said.
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"He probably wears the same pair every single day," Ariana says, "and it's nothing special."
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Her tasks might seem like nothing special (she does lots of yelling and galloping around).
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"They're not supernatural, they're not the devil, they're nothing special, they're just little creeps," she says.
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It's nothing special by today's flipping, diving gymnastic standards, but there's an understated beauty to it.
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It's nothing special, but its saccharine sweetness gives it all the makings of a decent hit.
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Maybe it seems like nothing special for boys (or girls) to be interested in outer space.
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Simple fast charging that's nothing special compared to chargers you get with OnePlus and Samsung phones.
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All of the other mutations drive home that this artificial citrus beverage is really nothing special.
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The view from the window was nothing special; I seemed to be looking into some offices.
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However, there's nothing special about being in Washington that makes someone more intelligent about nutritional needs.
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The sweet and sour sauce that I ordered with the appetizer was okay, but nothing special.
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The source emphasized that their access was nothing special for a Facebook employee at that time.
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There's nothing special about being a group of color or being in any sort of group.
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These organizations resolved a lot of issues, but there was nothing special or magical about them.
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Recounts in close elections are nothing special — although they rarely move many votes or change the outcomes.
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But security researchers largely think there's nothing special about a Russian hack of the DNC's Trump file.
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"There is nothing special to report on the fiscal situation of Mr. Ghosn in France," he said.
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While the seasoning itself is nothing special, it sure does make Taco Bell's crispy fry stand out.
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The Oontz Angle 3 speaker ($32) is nothing special, but sounds acceptable for its rock-bottom price.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have said there was nothing special about Garcia de Rayos' case.
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Says Hirshland, "There was nothing special or sexy about this big recruiting jobs market" the company was chasing.
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The tortillas were nothing special, but the meats were surprisingly juicy and had a nice punch in flavor.
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That timing has given the market-decline story wings, though there is really nothing special about such timing.
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The story about mutant cannibals attacking a family is nothing special, but there's real beauty in the execution.
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There was nothing special about the photo, or the square, and certainly not the account that posted it.
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At first glance, there is almost nothing special about this picture, which has the feel of a snapshot.
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To be fair, it was a perfectly competent music streaming service, but there was nothing special about it.
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There was nothing special about the username; it was the same one he'd been using online for years.
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The apps are decent enough but nothing special, and the recommended and personalized playlists are a bit limited.
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These pots and pans would probably get the job done, but they were nothing special to look at.
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"Inspiration almost always happens when you're doing nothing special — when you're showering or doing the dishes," Yamamoto said.
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Inspiration almost always happens when you're doing nothing special — when you're showering or doing the dishes, for example.
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I had nothing special to say about anything, because I was a nobody, with nothing distinctive about me.
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Although time started there, the North Pole was nothing special; the same laws applied there as everywhere else.
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I've skipped past that bit here — it's just a fight, nothing special — and skipped forward to the aftermath.
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It's really nothing special, just sticking to the game plan and sticking to our game, playing to our strength.
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ICE officials insist there was nothing special about her situation: She had committed a crime and was ordered deported.
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Pretty soon Peeps will be just another everyday candy, and there will be nothing special about Peeps at all.
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"[It is] nothing special," Putin said of Trump's remarks during a Friday press conference in Moscow, according to Reuters.
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Butterworth's syrup that came with the meal was nothing special but, combined with the sandwich, it blew us away.
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So you can see why I believe that what I was willing to do that day was nothing special.
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There's nothing special or magical about engaging in religious practices and showing certain changes in brain structure or function.
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Most storage facilities maintain the right humidity and temperature for aging wine, but there is nothing special about them.
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The hat was nothing special, a little white baseball cap I used to keep the sun off my face.
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In one way, Laura's Father's Day note is nothing special: Lots of people with Down syndrome read and write.
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The staples here, Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (with Vadim Gluzman as the soloist), offer nothing special.
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You have to have a cultural fluency of what a birthday cake is, but there's nothing special about that emoji.
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After all, there's nothing special about having designs with only four attributes—that choice simply creates a manageable deck size.
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As for what the candidates get treated to in the green rooms at the debates ... he says it's nothing special.
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I can tell you that they definitely sound like nothing special for on-ear headphones, especially ones that cost $129.
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A lot of gaming mice have buttons that let you easily switch between different sensitivities, so there's nothing special here.
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There's nothing special or magical that prevents that," says Weil, who concluded "I think those pros massively outweigh the cons.
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Putin said on Wednesday that the two men were civilians and that there was "nothing special and criminal" about them.
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LaMotta wasn't half the boxer, and nothing special as hitters go, but he had spoiled all of that with his grit.
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Or, at least, it's nothing special compared to another TV show's green room spread ... which he says blows away the competition.
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US immigration officials said there was nothing special about her case -- she committed a crime and her deportation order was enforced.
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Its specs are nothing special: You get 720p or 1080p resolution, a single HDMI jack, a remote... and that's about it.
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These snippets from my experience producing and reporting in television and online news for more than a decade are nothing special.
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I'm not immune to that perception; there's nothing special about me, I grew up in this world and I'm not magic.
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Nothing special is really like anything else and I'm all too aware that there is no glory in the hyperventilating recap.
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It will bother you that their ERA is nothing special, and it'll make you queasy that FIP hates them even more.
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There's nothing special about the sun in southern Italy or the soil in Turkey that makes those countries' produce taste better.
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She is out in her paddock all day and has the same routine but nothing special compared to other mares here.
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But that's really nothing special — indeed, it's broadly consistent with the kind of wage growth that has been evident for years.
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You can now pick up the console for just £279 on Amazon, which is a fairly low price, but nothing special.
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But if mindfulness is just a placebo, it means there's nothing special about it compared to other interventions intended to reduce stress.
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So, when I started going through puberty, I felt like I was no longer skinny and there was nothing special about me.
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By smartwatch or sport watch standards, it's nothing special, and it's certainly a big and wide thing to wear on your wrist.
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Let me be perfectly clear: there is nothing special about the S7 Edge Injustice Edition in terms of hardware features or capabilities.
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The fight itself was nothing special, fought entirely on the feet with Pudzianowski stalking forward and Popek backpedaling on heavily taped legs.
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Almost every item was available in large quantities, though the displays were nothing special and had a no-frills quality to them.
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In a single, isolated moment of care for, say, a man who came in with abdominal pain, Asaf looked like nothing special.
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She described the corruption investigation as "nothing special" and said it was one of several audits and reviews of the central bank.
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Toys R Us offered nothing special: not the lowest price, not the best selection, not the best service, not the best locations.
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Sure, some might say that the two just look like mother and daughter, nothing special, but there's no denying the strong similarities.
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It was nothing special that I did, it's really just the kind of work they did this off-season to make it happen.
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Who knows: Maybe the next Back to the Future will feature an entirely different kind of DeLorean, for which flight is nothing special.
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This performance—boring but OK, serviceably showy but nothing special—kind of set the tone for a night which was Awards Show 101.
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"There is nothing special about this street, it's a conglomeration of architectural styles, and the trees just tie it all together," she said.
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But in terms of understanding labor market dynamics, there is nothing special happening to American men that isn't also happening to American women.
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It is a norm and there is nothing special about it — it is now a language that people use on an everyday basis.
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Nothing special, just something my dad used to make when I was little, which makes it the culinary equivalent of a comfort blanket.
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"There's nothing special about you," the Hound says to Beric, listing all the other, better men he's seen cut down and not resurrected.
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In short, there's nothing special about providing consumers more to consume, especially when companies like Amazon have built their entire businesses on it.
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"Some kind of continued customs union but nothing special for the U.K., or as people are taling about a potential Norway option," he said.
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Moments after publication, we learned that there was, in fact, nothing special about the 11 songs that seemed so delightfully different from each other.
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In an interview on the Today show, Hadid played coy about how she spent the holiday, playing it off like it was nothing special.
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The inside was nothing special, but the arabesque scrollwork and embroidered greenish furniture in the large salon looked like antiques in a deserted museum.
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I didn't think my voice was nothing special; I just knew I could eat from it, so I started using it as a tool.
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The condoms that Australia's athletes will receive are nothing special, so it's unclear why the Australian Olympics committee decided to work with Starpharma specifically.
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The verdict on coconut water Drayer said coconut water has hydrating benefits, but she saw nothing special about it nutritionally, compared with whole foods.
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Zipping through 70,000 years of human history, it showed that there is nothing special about our species: no divine right, no unique human spark.
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In their daily lives they use mobile phones, drink Coke and live in ordinary five-storey blocks of flats or village houses, nothing special.
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I never dreamed that I'd come to find delight in everything that is everyday and seemingly without interest in my faraway neighborhood, nothing special.
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They surfaced a day after President Vladimir Putin said Russia had located Petrov and Boshirov, but that there was nothing special or criminal about them.
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Why it does not: A smart Redditor points out that Gendry has no army (unlike Dany) and offers nothing special (that we know of...). 3.
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You think 'oh, it won't happen at this specific place,' but then you realize that there was nothing special about Newtown before the shooting there.
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My family's story is nothing special; North America was built by immigrants who are exploited for their labor while simultaneously being shunned by the hegemony.
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But if there was nothing special, legally speaking, about the man-woman aspect of traditional marriage, what was so special about the two-person aspect?
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Ambrose and Rollins had a fine but nothing special feud, partly because, again, Ambrose is at his best as a talker, not an in-ring performer.
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The house itself is nothing special — a boxy contemporary, haphazardly furnished — but even by the elevated standards of Silicon Valley, the Lanzas' play space is extraordinary.
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Nothing special seems to be happening in the oil, dispersal, control or combination tanks, which reflects what Ms. Weinnig has been finding throughout these exposure experiments.
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Although my vegetarian meal was nothing special (it's like any meal on an EVA Air international flight), the packet of utensils that came with it were.
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Arizona State has developed into a very strong team, it turns out, but Washington is nothing special so far, currently rated around 100th by computer rankings.
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"Nothing special happens when the 'carbon budget' runs out or we pass whatever temperature target you care about, instead the costs of emissions steadily rise," he said.
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For one, each track sounds like all the rock music I ever heard while playing Madden growing up, which means that there is nothing special about it.
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" Fans were quick to applaud when Cabello sang the lyrics, "No, I never liked San Francisco/ Never thought it was nothing special / 'Til you kissed me there.
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Eh, they're nothing special: built-in iPad command centers, windows with automatic rain sensors, heated towel racks, in-ceiling speakers and closets that light up when opened.
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" Fans were quick to applaud when Cabello sang the lyrics, "No, I never liked San Francisco, never thought it was nothing special, 'til you kissed me there.
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Orlando is a Disney fiefdom, where a castle is nothing special, and so, if you spy a chance to make your place stand out, you grab it.
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There's nothing special about our luck, not really—ping-pong tables are the figurehead at the prow of the tech industry, a class ring, shorthand, a punchline.
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The interface is pretty simple, if nothing special — you can sort by "recently added," A-to-Z and Z-to-A, but there's no categories or customization.
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The single 8MP camera on the new iPad is nothing special, and there is only Touch ID, so there's no Face ID like on the iPad Pro.
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It's a quiet farming community of 2,500, and in most ways there's nothing special to set it apart from many such towns across the Catalonia region of Spain.
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There's nothing special about rap, but it is effectively the most wide-reaching art-form of our time, so we might as well put it to good use.
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The first appears when the words do, in a partbook for lute; it is nothing special, and with its clutch of semibreves moves with a dirge-like tread.
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And while there's nothing special about the Mi 9's curvy glass panels and metal chassis, the phone doesn't feel any less premium than handsets twice its price.
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It's a Red Admiral, which five years ago would have been nothing special, but there have been fewer and fewer in the city over the past few summers.
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For me, this upbringing seemed like nothing special, and I always found the way that people from outside the Bay Area idolized life there to be rather strange.
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Nothing special, either tragic or triumphant, has befallen this woman, yet the final sight of her, lost in music, stirred me as if I had witnessed heroic deeds.
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His voice is still nothing special, but there was tons of blue smoke, and he was all-out vamping the whole time…in a cardigan…I don't know.
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Yet industriously reworked and gathered into disarming displays and tableaus, these nothing-special sources limn the biggest themes of love, fear, loss, mourning, childhood and even divine grace.
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I remember watching him in the preseason last summer and saying he was nothing special, whereupon I was avalanched by Denver fans who raved about his power arm.
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North Korea's International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Chang Ung, who is heading the delegation, told Yonhap he had so much experience of major events that this was nothing special.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials claim there was nothing special about her case: She committed a crime, was placed under a deportation order, and her time had come.
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The phone itself is nothing special, but the pictures I take with it are a whole new level of awesome that I've never previously experienced with any mobile device.
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Nothing special here, but it's a useful feature and because those bookmarks sync across devices, it's now easier to search on mobile and apply on your desktop, for example.
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But 4K UHD TVs are quickly becoming nothing special, so Roku is also promising to stay ahead of the next acronym that TV manufacturers hope will move units: HDR.
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Suffering from panic attacks (a Tinder date goes wretchedly wrong), Sawyer seeks help—nothing special, a brief consultation during her lunch hour—at Highland Creek, a mental-health facility.
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To native New Yorkers, or really anyone living in a snowy city, the sight of lone, lost gloves is nothing special—an unimportant visual glitch brought on by winter.
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In a few weeks, the Commerce Department will release its first estimate of first-quarter growth in gross domestic product, and analysts are expecting it to be nothing special.
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"You could just do two types, like half shoe-string fries and half sweet potato fries, but that&aposs nothing special because you could get it anywhere," Gim said.
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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has also been under pressure to step aside, one McConnell ally noted, arguing that grumbling over leadership is nothing special on Capitol Hill.
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So her performance of Wicked's "Defying Gravity" at the 2004 Tonys was just okay; her rendition of Frozen's "Let It Go" at the 2014 Oscars was, you know, nothing special.
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I've only worn it once, on one of those delusional, optimistic nights that you overgroom and overdress for, despite knowing in your gut that nothing special is going to happen.
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The Vivo NEX S is an interesting phone, but its novelty wears off pretty fast when you realize the fingerprint sensor works poorly and the selfie camera is nothing special.
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The image was lovely but nothing special, but it seemed to me instantly legible: I'm mooning around alone on this random block in Chicago, if anyone wants to hang out.
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A more chronologically plausible version of events notes that the economy was doing nothing special in 1993 and 1994 and only really took off after Republicans took Congress in the midterms.
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Today, Chastity sensed the truffle presence throughout the grove—-they were everywhere, a few inches to a few feet below the surface of the earth—-but there was nothing special here.
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There was just nothing special about them – nothing that made him stand out in an industry already packed to the rafters with 30something white men with beefy biceps and handsome frowns.
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" While Cahill recognizes that it's "not possible for everybody to pay off their student loans in 54 days," he also emphasizes that "there's nothing special about our story or about us.
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"Fate put me in the right place, but there's nothing special about me that made my response any different from what I think any other cadet would have done," Aloma said.
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Beyoncé launched a new line of Beyhive merch Tuesday after hyping fans that there would be a big drop of some sort last week—and the looks are actually... nothing special.
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Putin, speaking at an economic forum in the Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok, said Russia had located the two men, but that there was nothing special or criminal about them.
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Instead, there's been a focus on Will Fuller (which is good, because Fuller is good) and the Texans tight ends (which is bad, because the Texans tight ends are nothing special).
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"There's nothing special going on here," said chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces Valery Gerasimov, adding that the occasional round of war games is simply good training.
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There's nothing special about the latitude and longitude of Silicon Valley that says leaders there are going to be effective if they're not clear and using goals to empower their team.
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She didn't mean this in a dismissive way, but in a Zen way: I'd absorbed the running and training into my life so that was part of my life, nothing special.
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The packaging is nothing special (it comes in both tins and little plastic pots), but at just two bucks, it&aposs a no-brainer compared to high-end glosses and lip therapies.
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I never have sung this one in my life, but you can often hear it playing at weddings, at family occasions, in cars, and simply when people are at home, doing nothing special.
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The release was nothing special — this is pretty commonplace, especially with Cyber Monday deals abuzz, but it's the content of the ad that's got social media screaming — and not in a good way.
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The trick is that a lot of moments in political and social events seem momentous and unique at the time but fade into history as nothing special, with little impact on later events.
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"There's nothing special about the latitude and longitude of Silicon Valley that says leaders there are going to be effective, if they're not clear and using goals to empower their team," he added.
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If this sounds extraordinary to you, and you want to flock out to buy the new Nokia 5010—if it even works where you live—keep in mind: There's nothing special about this phone.
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At first I was awestruck, but after a minute I got over the blond hair and the eyes and I could see that he was nothing special, just another guy trying to get along.
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The mass market results are still not stellar in comparison to other parts of L'Oreal's business, even though that division - where analysts at Berstein described sales growth as "nothing special" - contributes the most to revenues.
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There is nothing special or inherently admirable about the past, really, except that we were younger when it was happening, but people will go a long way to avoid looking this fact in the face.
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With Alphabet's help and resources, Kohli (who now runs flight operations) has seen Loon evolve past watching balloons fly hundreds of miles off course, to the point where a launch like today's is nothing special.
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An Imperial Household Agency spokesman said there was nothing special to announce about Aiko's health, but the Crown Prince touched on a period last autumn when Aiko was absent from school for some six weeks.
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On cue, the Yankees have insisted that there is nothing special about their series this weekend at the American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays, despite all the signs that point to something much larger.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Libor was "nothing special" and of "negligible importance" to one of the ex-Barclays traders on trial on charges of conspiracy to manipulate the global financial benchmark, a London court heard on Monday.
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"We just got back to Hollywood from a late session and my producer Ben [Free] came to me with the rough idea of a song called 'Poison' and played it like it was nothing special," he explains.
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There's nothing special about the so-called "preferred" seats, no extra legroom or other perks as are offered to passengers buying premium seats in airlines' coach cabins, such as United's Economy Plus and American's Main Cabin Extra.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which deported Garcia de Rayos from Arizona to Mexico on Thursday, contends there was nothing special about her case and that the move does not signify a heightened crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
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"This life is nothing special, but we're enjoying it," O-Ei says in her voiceover narration, articulating a beautifully humane and hedonistic defiance of religious prohibitions against the simple pleasures to be found in urban mischief and idleness.
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There's nothing special about the equipment — it's just a bunch of Dell monitors, Logitech mice, and a few microscopes — but it's the closeness of this research arm to the manufacturing plant that allows the company to move fast.
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At first, it seems like nothing special, since we glimpse him doing his usual stand-up-lite schtick in the classroom—but watch how he immediately loses his bravado when his old pal "Gerry" appears at his door.
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Mark Lehner, an Egyptologist from Ancient Egypt Research Associates, said that previous work had shown that the ancient Egyptians most likely constructed gaps in their pyramids and that the voids the team found are nothing special, or new.
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In a statement, Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Mr. O'Reilly, said the law firm was "already retained by the company to look into all hotline calls," adding that there was "nothing special" about the handling of this case.
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The Martian was mostly about one man's quest to stop disco music on a deserted planet in 2015 and, while the film is roughly 25,637 times better than the book it was based on, the screenplay is nothing special.
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I realized in that moment, and in the thousands of moments afterwards, that there is absolutely nothing special about my own hopes and dreams — that they are and always have been as delicate and vulnerable as the next person's.
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Several decades later, a new generation of customers has discovered that there's really nothing special about that Special Sauce—or about the rest of the burger either—and McDonald's is trying to figure out what to do about it.
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The students gasp as the teacher tells them that in this part of China where the scenery is "nothing special", the hotel can charge 3,800 yuan ($552) a night for a room with sweeping views of the mountains outside.
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There's nothing "special or pleasant" about Putin's winning, there's no "achievement" in winning a rigged election, and there's no "pride" or "satisfaction" to feel from a predetermined outcome (these are all the reasons the dictionary give for "congratulating" someone).
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The Xperia L1 isn't anything to write home about spec-wise, but given the astronomically low price, it can hold its own: It's nothing special, but it does run Android N, comes fully unlocked, and it's available in pink and white.
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There's little doubt that the 100-day window itself is arbitrary; as my colleague Andy Rudalevige said on a panel last week at Drury University's Meador Center, there's nothing special about day 100 as opposed to day 98 or day 102.
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The reel is nothing special, but fancy fly reels are anything but necessary for most trout fishing applications, and so long as you keep it out of the saltwater, the Clearwater IV reel should last about as long as any.
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It's nothing special by any means, but for its current price, you really can't beat it: Normally $30003, you'll pay just $23000 (and save some 2299%) if you order it from Dell's website and apply the coupon code BIZLT2299 at checkout.
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Mr. Young played with so many luminaries over the course of his career that he said "it was nothing special" for him and his fellow Memphis Boys to be tapped to support Elvis Presley in the studio in the late '60s.
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It explains the protagonist's central problem (he's a generic toy with nothing special about him), the antagonist's methods (which I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't seen the film), and the larger meta-story which makes it all more meaningful.
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She had kept it in a pocket of her bag for years, though she didn't know why—she never wore lipstick, and this one was nothing special, its ridged gold case scratched and grubby, the orange color inside worn to a nub.
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And that home run seemed nothing special to him when the third-place Dodgers closed out their history the next day with a 21958-21959 loss to the Phillies, the last Brooklyn pitch delivered by an unproven left-hander named Sandy Koufax.
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For example, ABI owns lots of labels which are nothing special at home but marketed as posh overseas: Budweiser, America's bog-standard lager, sells for a premium in China; Stella, which Europeans quaff at football games, is served with three-course dinners across the pond.
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Of course, rowing with the folks at this time of year is nothing special—along with charades, it is practically an official Christmas sport—and when the film is broadcast on the BBC over the festive period many viewers will surely empathise with the chaos.
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And then, usually, the voter turnout nationally turns out to be nothing special or out of the ordinary: Percentages are in the high 30s or low 40s of the voting eligible population in a midterm elections year and the low 60s in a presidential year.
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It's basically the equivalent of going to an NYC restaurant where the setting is so cool and lighting is so dim and romantic and the location is so great that you actually think the food tastes good, when it's really nothing special at all.
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There's no café, not really anywhere to sit and read, nothing special about the fixtures, a very boring magazine selection and a collection of books that feels blandly standard — not the sense of opinionated curation you'd find at a boutique like Brooklyn's new Books Are Magic.
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In recent years, revisionist historians, sardonic politicians and even crooning poets have come around to carping that a deeply flawed America with its history of ill-conceived wars, of slavery and endemic racism, as well as its tacit barriers preventing social and economic mobility, is nothing special.
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It sure looks as if the boost in growth so far in 2018 is mostly about the first set of effects: Investment spending has been nothing special, and in the third quarter fixed investment — a category that includes both housing and business investment — was actually negative.
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All said, there was nothing "special" to mark this moment, there was only the fact that as I lifted into the sky, the game's crowded UI seemed to disappear, the blaring voices over the comms went quiet, and each tiny maneuver felt like an extension of me.
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The match had promised much better: France had been annoyed by some pre-World Cup digs by Hareide, who had dismissed its players as "nothing special" and "unable to play as a team" in an interview comparing this France team to the country's 03 World Cup champions.
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Though the "meme era" of copyright cases has only recently begun, so far the courts have held that "there's nothing special about memes," said Louis Tompros, a lawyer who represented Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, in a case against the conspiracy website Infowars.
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We could only find one deal on the Oculus Quest, and it's nothing special: If you order it through the brand's website, you'll get three episodes of Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and access to the game's Lightsaber Dojo mode for free — a $29.97 value.
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That's my theory about why my dad has been visiting the same diner for the past 30 years, even though he knows the food is nothing special: He always runs into his friends there, and he likes the nothing-specialness because he knows it keeps the yuppies out.
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Putin, speaking at an economic forum in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, said Russia had found the two men, that they were civilians, and there was nothing special or criminal about them and that he hoped they would come forward and tell the world their own story.
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Last night, Keaton presented an award alongside her Something's Gotta Give boyfriend Keanu Reeves, wearing what some would (and did) call nothing special for a black-tie evening: a houndstooth Ralph Lauren suit styled underneath a custom Ralph Lauren wool-cashmere coat and cinched with a big belt.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was nothing special — just a cafe in a shopping mall supermarket — but when an elegant matron named Aisha Sattar walked into the newly reopened Holey Artisan Bakery on Wednesday, a sweet, reminiscent look came over her face, as if she weren't sure it was all real.
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Saturn's distance from the sun points to comfort in the shadows, but being born with the old stony planet in sunny Leo suggests an overwhelming and confusing desire to be seen and respected, especially since Saturn symbolizes feeling overshadowed or fearing that there is nothing special about you.
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I asked a LELO spokesperson if a gold vibrator actually feels better, and he basically told me that although physically, there's nothing special about the way gold stimulates your clit, because pleasure is psychological, it would feel better to someone who's turned on by the idea of luxury.
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VIEWED FROM THE end of a long, dry dirt driveway on an October morning, the house looks like nothing special: a decommissioned military bunker, maybe, though barely recognizable as that, a pair of one-story, sand-colored rectangle structures nestled against a 21972-degree dune like a set of dresser drawers.
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While the first batch of Windows Mixed Reality headsets offered little differentiation from each other aside from small cosmetic deviations from Microsoft's reference design — HP launched a headset then, it was nothing special — now it seems the company has made a significant bet on becoming the premium option for virtual reality enterprise users.
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Exit from the Shinkansen bullet train at Kumamoto station and there is nothing special on the platform, not so much as a banner – not until you take the escalator down and catch a glimpse of the enormous head of Kumamon set up downstairs, along with a mock stationmaster's office built for him.
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And then, suppose you're reprieved, and you get up the next morning and you're not dead; could you look again at the sun and the trees and the sky and think they're the same old sun and sky and trees, nothing special at all, just the same old things you've seen every day?
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There was a sense among the Asian Americans I spoke with that if similar disparaging comments had been made about Jewish or African-American applicants — "another gifted student-athlete, nothing special here" — there would likely be a level of outrage that we're not seeing from progressive writers, pundits, and friends for this case.
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Although Lois is an appealingly fleshed-out character, the plot points of "The Lady Doctor" are nothing special: Lois's mother, who abandoned the family when Lois was small, now wants Lois to help her with a liver transplant; Lois and her journalist buddy take psilocybin mushrooms, in an almost-skippable section; there are standard romantic ups and downs.
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Others are off-the-rack models that have nothing special about them but their provenance: the Gibson SG with which Duane Allman played that performance of "Statesboro Blues"; the ES-350T with which Chuck Berry recorded "Johnny B. Goode"; or the Stratocaster with which Bob Dylan scandalized the folk purists at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
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But then I remembered that this was prizefighting I was talking about and that there was nothing special about Overeem's suspension, that he was one of five fighters to get indefinite suspensions following UFC 203 (some pending clearances on body parts as ethically insignificant as fingers and hands), and I decided that some things will never change.
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As Ommegang has continued with this project, their beers have become more complex, experimental, and thematically intertwined with the show (and, having had the first five, they've become better over that time as well, with Iron Throne and Take the Black being good but nothing special, while Valar Morhulis and Three-Eyed Raven had tastes I hadn't really encountered before).
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Presidential contender Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE is mocking rival Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE's Super Tuesday results, arguing the GOP senator's wins in Texas and Oklahoma are nothing special.
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