But he was also a gleeful pinprick to its pomposities.
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China's exporters, for example, are already accustomed to such pinprick protectionism.
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If you looked closely, you could see a tiny, bloodless pinprick.
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If it's a pinprick in Syria, we've seen the price gains.
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He said the attack he would conduct would be a pinprick.
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But like with every other bubble, specific catalysts serve as the pinprick.
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The WHO and rights groups insist, however, that even a pinprick counts.
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Early symptoms can include pinprick pupils, runny nose, wheezing and muscle twitching.
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Well, the United States military was not build to conduct pinprick attacks.
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Holmes's pinprick testing that would do away with the hypodermic needle never worked.
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The pinprick itself, like cosmetic ear piercing, has no medical benefits or harm.
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Make no mistake, these would not have been pinprick strikes that Iran simply swallowed.
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Take Theranos, which pledged to perform tons of tests on just a pinprick of blood.
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Ms Holmes has certainly left a mark on Silicon Valley—and not a mere pinprick.
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What might prove the pinprick to the "everything bubble," as doomers like to call it?
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Today it appears as a reddish pinprick of light in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus.
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I heard a series of beeps and felt a small electrical pulse, like a pinprick.
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"Let's be clear, these pinprick strikes have not worked," said Murphy, who sits on Foreign Relations.
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Twenty-one short miles away, a pinprick of orange light signals the proximity of continental Europe.
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Time and again, it reduces the opposition's sight of goal to nothing more than a pinprick.
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Finally, figure out how to crawl toward a pinprick of light that might be an exit.
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The logo map is not only misleading because it excludes large colonies and pinprick islands alike.
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Despite the educated misgivings, Holmes and Theranos were sure their proprietary pinprick technology was a game-changer.
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From across the room, the tiny framed clipping feels like a pinprick of light on your heart.
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IN THE DENSE gloom about climate change, news of coal's decline seems like a pinprick of hope.
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At the far right, the sun is a mere pinprick, with the dust storm in full swing.
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He points to tongue reconstructions where patients could later feel a pinprick on their newly transplanted tongues.
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That includes a pinprick or "ritual nick" of the clitoris that does not remove skin or tissue.
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Pinprick strikes on the Assad regime, like those he ordered last April after a previous chemical attack.
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It also comes one year after Trump decided on pinprick strikes in response to another regime attack.
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During this transit, Mercury will be visible as a tiny pinprick of darkness against the Sun's surface.
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At 2:43, the skin on the outside of each of my feet started to tingle and pinprick.
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Diagnostic tests were already performed routinely using a drop of blood from a pinprick long before Theranos existed.
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Mr Wang visited a local NGO and took a pinprick test to determine whether he, too, was infected.
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By the time I found them, they were already eating, leaving behind pinprick-size holes in the leaves.
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Theranos once touted its Edison device as a ground-breaking technology able to test blood from just a pinprick.
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This isn't just a pinprick of light shining in their eye; this is a light that floods the cockpit.
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The size of the AEPR fine is of course a mere pinprick for Facebook whose 2016 revenue was $27.64BN.
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About a half-dozen years ago, Boten was a casino boomtown, a pinprick of neon amid thickly forested hills.
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This image is just one-twentieth of the night sky, a mere pinprick of a window into the universe.
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We have no common word for a hole that is bigger than a pinprick but smaller than a pothole.
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My eyes scanned constellations and got caught on the pinprick outline of Orion, the hunter who heralds North America's winter.
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" On losing his parents to a drunk driver: "I went into a black hole with a little pinprick of light.
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The book gives us a pinprick in our belief that Silicon Valley's vaunted investors and founders are immune to stupidity.
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But she is also, in almost every line, funny, poignant, and self-impugning, measuring her pinprick dramas against the cosmos.
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Staring into its pinprick eyes, I realized that my lying Tinder lover was the one who broke my emotional double.
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Combined with their repetitive nature, they're a needling pinprick in the ear of the listener, meant to agitate and irritate.
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Payet grew up on Réunion, a pinprick of a tropical island and a French dependency, 1,000 miles from Africa's east coast.
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The blood-testing company once touted its Edison device as a ground-breaking technology able to test blood from just a pinprick.
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But this image, which is just one-twentieth of the night sky, is a mere pinprick of a window into the universe.
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The next night, Iowa voters gave him their resounding answer, and put the first real pinprick in Mr. Trump's inflated political reputation.
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Such a fine, if imposed, would only be a pinprick for Facebook, which recorded revenues of more than $40 billion last year.
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But Mueller's no-collusion conclusion was the first pinprick in their narrative of there being good reason to believe Trump colluded with Russia.
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Currently EasyGlucose gets within 7% of the pinprick method, well above what's needed for "clinical accuracy," and Chiang is working on closing that gap.
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In 2013-15 she raised around $700m to fund her firm, which had supposedly developed a way to test blood with a single pinprick.
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She graced magazine covers and speechified about Theranos, which was trying to upend diagnostic testing by using pinprick amounts of blood rather than vials.
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Which would mean billions of dollars in Facebook's case — vs the pinprick penalties it has been dealing with for data abuse up to now.
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Not scripted, stilted emotions, but pure, full-on method acting surrender, pressed through a tiny pinprick of frustration at the core of his being.
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It is a pinprick settlement of 2,800 people in Mingo County—yet over a decade two pharmacies there pumped out 21m pills of addictive opioids.
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Her company, its peak valued at $9 billion, promised investors a device, the Edison, that could diagnose nearly 200 conditions through a pinprick of blood.
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Pinprick dissonances disrupt the sense of a tonal center, and the music collapses into harmonic limbo, in the form of a rolled chord of fourths.
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The symbolic pinprick is modeled on the longstanding Jewish tradition used when a non-Jewish child has been secularly circumcised and then converts to Judaism.
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If all who today practice female genital mutilation can be persuaded to substitute the pinprick, as some groups have done, much good will be achieved.
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" Ms. Ahrens laughed, and added: "My mother, who I call the pinprick in the bubble of joy, said it's an honor just to be nominated.
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"To which Roberts retorted, "I don't know about 'outrageous,' but I think just a little pinprick of humor might help this committee from time to time.
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If you're really in a pinch, you can even make a pinhole projector by just curling your fingers to only let a pinprick of light through.
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Bonobo played an aquatically chill set of slow-moving dance music, followed by Four Tet, who kept his tempo but shifted to pinprick-precise, bucolic house.
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But neuroimaging has shown that, if a chronic-pain sufferer and an unafflicted person are given the same burn or pinprick, their brains manifest activity differently.
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A pinprick of a finger yielded a drop on a slide that, under the microscope, revealed a world of cells of different shapes, sizes, and colors.
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More plausible is that each pinprick penetrating Mr. Zuma's skin is felt by black South Africans, even those who are horrified by what he has done.
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From being barely a pinprick on the international map, Dubai's diamond industry is now gunning for Antwerp's crown as the world's leading center of the trade.
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I saw dozens of doctors, but none of them could explain my muscle weakness, debilitating fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, or the pinprick pains in my hands and feet.
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Imagine the emojis puncturing the tire of bullying behavior; they don't pop it like a balloon with one pinprick, but they do help to deflate the situation.
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In other words, where a perverse pinprick would otherwise form in the space-time fabric, naked for all the world to see, the relative weakness of gravity prevents it.
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Theranos's business model was based around the idea that it could run blood tests, using proprietary technology that required only a finger pinprick and a small amount of blood.
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OK, there's one slight wild card here: if there was a bubble in asset prices, the prospect of Fed rate hikes could be the pinprick that bursts the bubble.
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Jean felt her hand device disengaging, and then the old woman was holding her hand tenderly, rubbing with her thumb at the aching pinprick where the interface entered the vein.
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Theranos's big sell was that it had created a machine that would be able to diagnose a wide range of medical conditions from a single, nearly painless pinprick blood draw.
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To start, meaningful military action would need to go beyond a repeat of the "pinprick" scenario when the United States launched 59 Tomahawk missiles against a singular Syrian air base.
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Mr. McIntyre worked the fryer, lowering hash browns and sausages in a metal basket into a spitting tub of hot oil, so that his hands were speckled with pinprick burns.
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Looking beyond the next 25 basis point pinprick, once the elections are out of the way, it is clear that a moderation of the Fed's monetary stimulus will have to continue.
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While he enabled MOAB, the mother of all bombs, to be dropped on ISIS in Afghanistan, it amounts to a pinprick in the over all battle and not a sea change in tactics.
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For example, last year the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid prohibited the unrestricted use of fingerstick glucose-testing on critically ill patients, after several fatal incidents that were linked to spurious pinprick tests.
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If he is to survive, Rubio better have learned something from his failure in the New Hampshire debate because Trump won't use a pinprick attack like Christie's; Trump will deliver shock and awe.
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Sewanee, on top of Monteagle Mountain not far from Chattanooga, is barely a pinprick on the map — less a town than a crossroads where the gas station doubles as the local grocery store.
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Surely the spectacle inclines you to take a hard line: If such a small pinprick upsets Trump so much, the odds are pretty good that he'll blink in the face of real confrontation.
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Research in this area is concentrating on identifying patterns of gene expression in blood cells (which can be retrieved by pinprick) that might appear six months to a year before active TB develops.
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The fireball showed up in the ninth galaxy photographed, as a new bluish pinprick of light in the outer regions of NGC 2500, a swirl of stars about 130 million light-years from here.
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"Another pinprick military strike is not going to really have too much effect, other than reinforcing the norm against chemical weapons use," said Kelly Magsamen, a former Obama administration national security official, on CNN.
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Theranos, her company named by combining the words "therapy" and "diagnostics," was supposed to be able to run hundreds of medical tests with just one drop of blood from a pinprick on each patient's finger.
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Mexico Dispatch SAN NICOLÁS, Mexico — A mystery lies behind the origin of the distinctive forms depicted in the elaborate embroidery stitched in San Nicolás, a pinprick of a mountain village in the central Mexican highlands.
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In "The Lighthouse," a sly American Gothic set in the late 19th century, the director Robert Eggers lights and frames the actors to emphasize every bony plane, every facial crease, hollow and pinprick of stubble.
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The scientists had an inkling they would find groundwater in some of these areas based on previous pinprick-like drill holes that had been made to search for oil or study geological history in these locations.
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Claiming it had come up with a portable analyzer that could perform a full range of tests with only a pinprick of blood, Theranos cast a medical spell over sophisticated investors, the public and the media.
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Poem in a Dream I would like to comb the haiku from your hair vertical braid of language necklace of words pinprick of a single sound I work in black and white much more than you thought.
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Holmes boasted the ability to do an array of blood tests from a single finger pinprick and just a few drops of blood, and claimed she could do it better, quicker, and cheaper than traditional blood testing.
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Honestly, I almost skipped right past it when I saw it in my inbox, ready to auto-consign it to the purgatory of my "Promos" folder until a pinprick of curiosity and nostalgia inspired me to press play.
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The dream of the Botox brow lift — that it will turn you into a Kardashian or the thousands of Instagram models who look just like them — can be yours for barely a pinprick and a few hundred bucks.
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That life emerges with pinprick detail, framed by windswept landscapes and the bright flowers and birds that Maud begins painting, painful stroke by stroke, on the shack's walls, steps, pots and windows, vivid manifestations of her will to create.
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From its very first page, we are on the dark side of the moon, where logic holds no sway and all that matters is the next "pinprick of pain-pleasure" provided by the narrator's burning her arms with cigarettes.
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Do not let the pinprick of sorrow rest in your soul for one second, because if you do, you will realize that a part of you was taken from you: the part that wanted to learn, to think, to write.
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Syrian bombing raids on the same town have already taken place from the attacked airfield, an in-your-face response to the US strike, showing that it didn't take out the airstrip and thus our action was only a symbolic pinprick.
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Theranos, once a Silicon Valley darling promising accurate blood tests using only a pinprick, recently closed its labs and fired 340 employees after a series of articles exposed that its technology did not work and was putting patients at risk.
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To the contrary, I am consulting with a religious group and advocating the practice's total abolition and the substitution of a benign, sterilized, symbolic pinprick in the hood covering the clitoris, which is much like the foreskin of the penis.
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Astronomers were able to create the composite photograph of the mini-moon above — which shows it as a small but bright pinprick among vibrant disco-ball-like splashes of light — by focusing high-resolution telescopes on the fast-moving object.
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To supplement those visits, Dallas mixes in frequent capillary blood draws for its players in which a quick pinprick sample is taken to provide near-instant readings of oxidative stress levels in the blood from a player's ear or index finger.
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Assad may try to use chemical weapons again to test Trump's resolve and see if the new president — a mercurial leader known for his impatience — is willing to continually mount pinprick operations that don't seriously change the course of the war.
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It, therefore, seems that the weakening U.S. bond market read too much last Friday into the Fed's view that the current inflation indicators and labor market conditions had strengthened the case for an interest rate increase – most probably another 2156.4 basis-point pinprick.
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In addition to taking 1,100 years to complete its orbit around the sun, the object is blisteringly chilly, which makes sense seeing as it's located in the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the sky.
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In research published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, the team also said a simple test using blood taken from a finger pinprick could show whether a malaria patient has parasites with the genetic markers - allowing doctors to prescribe an alternative treatment.
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Foucault's idea of resistance was to spend your time mapping out all those pinprick sources of power, like the stars: If you wanted to speak truth to power, he suggested, you first had to divine your position inside a whole constellation of influence.
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But in this informal tasting, we did find AHA's bubbles to be slightly larger than its competitors — whether that is a good thing is a matter of preference, with some people liking the big fizz and others preferring a more pinprick effect of smaller bubbles.
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"She really did believe that creating this machine that would be able to run every test known to man off of just a pinprick of blood, that that would really be good for society and that it would do good," Carreyrou told the Mad Money host.
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They have gotten to go on safari in Kenya, but boy have they spent a lot of time seeing poverty in Kenya, and South Africa, and Tanzania, because to me, it's important they see the whole world, not this little just pinprick of where they live in Seattle.
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At an eight-course pop-up dinner served last year in New Zealand wine country, she arranged a few perforated leaves, glossy and candied, around a sorbet of muted celadon suffused with more leaves, their natural bitterness tamped down to a cooling mint with a pinprick of pepper.
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There were passages like this, as if hearing the opera with new ears, throughout Mr. Muti's "Aida": pinprick violin arpeggios evoking the flow of the Nile in the opening of the third act; tiny grace notes that add ineffable spirit to the short second-act ballet in Amneris's chambers.
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Her beguiling concept was that by a simple pinprick — drawing only a drop or two of blood — Theranos could dispense with the hypodermic needle, which she likened to a gruesome medieval torture, and perform a full range of blood tests in walk-in clinics and, ultimately, people's homes.
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At first, it will sell seeds for the Badger Flame; three varieties of squash (including one that announces its ripeness on the vine by changing from dark green to a rusty orange); a small, creamy potato; a pleasingly bitter cucumber; and a floral-tasting habanero pepper without even a pinprick of heat.
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Lucy is from Amgash, Illinois, more of a pinprick on the map than a town proper, and she grew up poor, sharing a single room with her brother, her sister, and her parents, a seamstress and a repairman of farm machinery; there was no heat, no toilet, and never enough to eat.
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The dueling economic realities of the two countries are on clear display from space: Even now, nighttime satellite photos show the southern half of the Korean Peninsula splotched with bright lights, while Mr. Kim's North is shrouded in darkness, with only a pinprick of light indicating the location of Pyongyang, where the nation's elite lives.
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The chopper lurched up without warning, and then the wooden pallet that we had docked on became the size of a sandwich board, a Wheat Thin, a pinprick… The wind whipped my bangs so hard I became convinced that my individual hairs could give me paper cuts, but at least the wind dried my sweaty palms, and I was able to unlock my phone.
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Still, in the absence of better options like expanded availability of the tests that are approved under the EUA, these serological tests (many of which can provide on-site results with just a pinprick of blood) will be useful in painting a more accurate picture of the overall spread and reach of the coronavirus, especially for smaller clinics, GP clinics and local labs that don't have priority access to the equipment and supplies needed for the molecular testing efforts.
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