The University of the Witwatersrand — Wits, for short — is home to the Wits Art Museum, which is renowned for its collection of African art.
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Watching her battle wits with Dany is a goddamn delight.
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Wits in Tokyo are calling it the Party of Hopelessness.
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Brussels wits talk of them being made "Commissioner for Ballet".
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Photographer Barney Koszalka captured a battle of wits between moose.
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In others words: Keep your wits about you in 2019.
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I was playing well and kept my wits about me.
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Finally, someone with the wits to pin down the President!
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She repairs to Ed's massage table at her wits' end.
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He also has a hair care line called Five Wits.
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He also has a hair care line called Five Wits.
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A Wits university spokeswoman earlier said the university had reopened.
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Judy Maguire, a Wits colleague, noted an abundance of errors.
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Finally, we end the week with a test of wits.
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There is the daily battle of wits between two apple sellers.
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You're going to have to use your wits with this one.
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When I was a CEO I was at my wits' end.
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This can give you a good sense of your date's wits.
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Up until today, the answer was your guns and your wits.
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Chess, after all, is a game of planning, cunning, and wits.
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In a battle of wits, who would come out on top?
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Long enough to scare many people out of their wits, though.
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Beltran, as far as anyone can tell, used only his wits.
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" Or matching wits with Kevin Kline in "The Pirates of Penzance.
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"Wits About You" slowly builds from a heartbeat and churning synths.
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A woman who commits fraud is rarely commended for her wits.
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WITS, which is based in Harlem, prioritizes working in underprivileged neighborhoods.
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At my wits' end, I did something I vowed to never do.
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Just keep your wits about you and you should do just fine.
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You have nothing with you except your wits and ... a fire extinguisher?
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But, thanks to both her luck and wits, she was never convicted.
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Characters can earn points for Violence, Sex/Nudity, Wits, Status, and Looks.
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"The board doesn't have all their wits about them," De Masi said.
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Can you beat the dead mare in a battle of poetic wits?
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I have to keep my wits about me and keep my head.
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As Gladys's wits fall away, we are left with a stubborn essence.
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Her brainy and frazzled women are at the ends of their wits.
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Three acts follow, each containing a test of virtue, wits or heart.
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There's a new challenge for DeepMind to apply its collective wits to.
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In 2015, when Wits suggested a 10.5 percent fee increase, students protested.
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Kick back and match wits with Veronica for some much needed escape.
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Missed lining up against a defensive back, matching wits and physical skill.
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"This is very tough kid who kept his wits about him," he said.
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Some, finding themselves at wits' end, attempt to end their pain by suicide.
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Decisions must be made, and we need to have our wits about us.
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The dunking skill was all Gordon's but the drone wits came from Intel.
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Jamie, Mars, and Greer all miss her, but she's at her wits end.
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Why is no one scared out of their wits about all of this?
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Black Mike held back his friend, who appeared to have lost his wits.
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Build-wise this camera strikes a pretty nice balance on size and wits.
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Strong women who got by on their wits, sassy one-liners and style.
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Fury somehow gathered his wits, rose and made it to the final bell.
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"We were at our wits' end; it was kind of desperation," Atkinson said.
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Our girl herself doesn't have magic, however: She's relying on her wits alone.
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They're both at their wits end with Logan, so why not entertain themselves?
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She has her wits, though words sometimes elude her or come out sideways.
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WITS introduced its alternative menu in partnership with the city's Department of Education.
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"It's showtime, folks!" a Wits faculty member declared, as the event streamed live.
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The only thing I knew back then was that I had to keep my wits about me, so the idea that irresponsible parenting did, in fact, lead to young wits splattered about patterned wallpaper was enough horror for that evening.
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"Carry extra wits in case you lose 'em, that's what I do." he added.
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Riley brought joy to those around him with his shy smile and quick wits.
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In its original form, Death Note is compelling because it's a game of wits.
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On Monday when protesters at Wits University reached the Great Hall, the crowd surged.
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"They got the generals, we got the bureaucrats," is how Indian wits put it.
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It's hard to keep your wits about you when guns are pointed at you.
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But is it your sense that the president is at wits` end with this?
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He's a survivor in this town where you gotta have your wits about you.
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"It's a beautiful American social game of wits and wagers and psychology," Somerville said.
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Carson said the GOP is 'scared out of their wits' that Trump will win.
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To be fair, even our unblinking witness does not always have his wits intact.
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"They are usually very desperate people at the end of their wits," Li said.
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"We have people who are just at their wits' end," Mr. Van Bramer said.
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President Kennedy chose his men based on general wits, rather than on specific knowledge.
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As a security officer in the E.R. I had only my hands and my wits.
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Furyk will be matching wits with his friend and European captain Thomas Bjorn of Denmark.
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You'll have your wits about you, and be able to move comfortably through the space.
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Details of the unrest at Wits University on Tuesday were widely shared on social media.
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He collected his wits and improved his performance later on, notably in discussing foreign affairs.
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She works hard and has the wits to keep Johnny's attitude from sabotaging their work.
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Sources who've spent time with Trump privately say he's at his wits end with both.
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Rather than weapons, the Doctor relies on wits, friends, and (of course) the sonic screwdriver.
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And in that arena, the Belgian coach, Marc Wilmots, must pit his wits against Conte's.
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However, once in the tiebreak Nishikori kept his wits and converted his first match point.
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In a way they were bums living by their wits with an Indian trickster's ability.
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I was 25 years old, wet behind the ears and scared out of my wits.
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After a manly pissing contest of wits, Jon challenges Ramsay to one-on-one combat.
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"To know you can go on like that and still have your wits about you."
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After that, Berger and Clarke worked separately; Berger no longer oversaw the Wits fossil collection.
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Like other WITS chefs, Ms. Garcia helps train the kitchen workers to prepare healthy food.
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The skull and other fossils were sent to Raymond Dart, a comparative neuroanatomist at Wits.
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You've just destroyed the giant, walking tank with your quick wits and tactical missile shots.
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This article originally appeared on EW.com The Mooch will match wits with Stephen Colbert on Monday.
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It's undoubtedly been affecting the wits of astrobiologists since it was first found on comet Lovejoy.
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In the meantime, we can't wait to begin testing the wits of our beloved Echo devices.
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In all three games, you piece together the game's narrative by virtue of your own wits.
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Competitors in the esports tournament played StarCraft II, a war game that tests wits and dexterity.
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Remember to keep your wits about you, no matter how eager you are for your payday.
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In the restroom, Nate splashed water on his face and neck to get his wits back.
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There seems to be little doubt that, in a battle of wits, the president would lose.
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Somehow, she gathers her strength, and her wits, and winds up on the dance floor again.
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The University of the Witwatersrand (known as Wits), is one of South Africa's most expensive universities.
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I don't think anyone who had any wits about them would say you're just a singer.
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Her husband and grown sons have now vanished; Nora is parched and at her wits' end.
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Student loan borrowers, at their wits' end, are mobilizing to go on strike from their payments.
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In a subsequent statement, Wits however said lectures had been disrupted by large groups of protesters.
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Claire Lowenstein, the principal at P.S. 218, says the WITS program has been an excellent investment.
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In the film, the bear of storybook fame matches wits with a master thief (Hugh Grant).
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Or do you prefer the idea of using cannabis to relax while keeping your wits about you?
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At the end of her wits, she asks to have her feet amputated, but this does nothing.
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Instead, I ended up boogieing with her and sparring wits for hours or minutes, I'll never know.
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"I finally gathered my wits about me—after an internal command of Get it together,"she explained.
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After days on end with little food and almost no sleep, it's hard to keep your wits.
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Bo is going to spend his life living by his wits, and circumstances keep conspiring against him.
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Only it will happen when GameStop reaches its wits end, probably at the end of Q1 2019.
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To come out with a medal, I think it was down to keeping my wits about me.
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"I finally gathered my wits about me—after an internal command of Get it together," she explained.
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After exhausting all of the campus's free perks, Friedlander tests the wits of FB's machine learning team.
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Late Night is at its best when Kaling and Thompson are locked in a battle of wits.
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He was a desperate child when I met him, but he still had [his wits about him].
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She repeatedly feinted Jędrzejczyk out of position and numbed her wits to the real attacks that followed.
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"Zuma is in a corner and neutralized," said Professor Susan Booysen at Wits University's School of Governance.
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If anything goes wrong, you just have to keep your wits about you and solve the problem.
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Using their wits to survive ("The Hunger Games"), the escapees have a variety of philosophies on resistance.
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The outspoken venture capitalist matches wits with Kara, providing a very entertaining and enlightening conversation along the way.
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Now it needed traders capable of split-second, high-pressure decisions, people with quick wits, stamina and guts.
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Tilden has the numbed and tentative mien of someone who was scared out of his wits long ago.
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"I walked away scared out of my wits that they will change our industry forever," says Mr Gupta.
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Image: baranq / shutterstockHope you're ready to face the day with nothing but your own unsharpened wits about you.
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Legend was smart not to want to get in a battle of wits with his perpetually-savage wife.
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In a way, America is being governed by the dimmest of wits on the most unscrupulous of networks.
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Riggs' gambling, meanwhile, has strained his marriage and left his wealthy wife (Elisabeth Shue) at her wits end.
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"She was basically a political pawn, a lot like Sansa, surviving on her wits in court," Oliveira explained.
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At that level, a trio of measly Mimics can be your undoing, if your wits let you down.
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We sent cartoonist Liana Finck to "Super Thursday" armed with nothing more than a smartphone and her wits.
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"Timoney was at his wits' end," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.
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And just as heartening, the Trump phenomenon has sharpened the wits of a whole new breed of entertainers.
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They used their wits, their two extra legs and — yes — their bushy tails to fend off their pursuers.
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I think Masters of War would scare the wits out of radio programmers if it were published today.
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It takes wits and triangulation, and there's always that aha moment when you know you've gotten the joke.
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We used to come out of Chelsea Piers" — where "Law & Order" was based — "scared out of our wits.
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In the lackluster summer of 2016, The Shallows (in which a stranded Blake Lively matches wits with a shark) and Don't Breathe (in which trapped young people match wits with a wily, murderous blind man) provided more efficient and consistent thrills than a lot of their super-sized, mega-budgeted counterparts.
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Backing exciting startups also requires you to pit your wits against the best in the business as an investor.
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Sansa has her wits, but how can the two bring their talents together for the good of the family?
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In being able to make a fortune using little more than their wits, they become attractive, almost awe-inspiring.
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Relying first on her wits and later on the comfort of strangers, Frenkel moved from one refuge to another.
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Shetland sheepdogs are known for being extremely intelligent, yet their wits haven't swayed the judges at Westminster just yet.
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Tom Taylor plays young Jake, whose disturbing visions have his widowed mom ("Vikings'" Katheryn Winnick) at her wits end.
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I practice Buddhism and feel guilty that the statues, which some are ginormous, scare me out of my wits.
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"They are very much about problem-solving, using your wits and courage to get out of trouble," she said.
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The queen is, in fact, an intellectual match, challenging the king and his administration to a duel of wits.
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And, I reasoned, there was the possibility of confusion: Mr. Corbyn is not exactly known for his sharp wits.
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In this novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, she walks her wits on a very long leash.
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Critic's Notebook If you watch game shows just to test your wits, congratulations on your kind heart; on Jan.
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His last post in South Africa was as dean of the one remaining residence for black students at Wits.
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Berger enrolled at Wits, anyway, having learned that the school's fossil vault held specimens that had never been described.
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As he completed the remaining months of his contract, he came across more Australopithecus material in the Wits vault.
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Composing herself, and pausing to gather her wits, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) waits at the door of an office.
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They fit the American self-image of the lone individual who succeeds based on their wits and raw determination.
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Click here to view original GIFKeeping your wits about you and surviving a bear attack by just screaming at it?
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"What better preparation for any of us, male or female, than to have matched wits with the justice?" she said.
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At Airbus, Bouvier will be embarking on a battle of wits with a new opposite number at arch-rival Boeing.
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You, on the other hand, have no fashionable necklace or anything else, really, except your wits and Link's boxer briefs.
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One of these days, his human will use this against him — so he has to keep his wits about him.
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Billions showrunners say they were looking to add a character in season 2 who could effectively match wits with Axelrod.
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It's a testament to his wits when he manages to push back against his enemies while hardly wasting a bullet.
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The few times I have partook, it made it more difficult to keep my wits about me, which is dangerous.
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The fruits of the Enlightenment allowed us to consider ourselves as rugged individuals, navigating the world by our wits alone.
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How does a man, or a woman, learn to use their wits, as well as their limbs, and box clever?
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Face your friends and family in a contest of strength, wits and agility as you explore six thrilling Adventure Boards.
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"Standup comedy has kept my wits sharp," Bailey, who must quiz passengers with trivia with ease on Cash Cab, said.
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Babatunde is "pretty" and "the greatest," but he defeats the devil not with his fists but with wits and integrity.
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Another tip to keep your wits about you is to occupy your free time with FaceTime conversations with loved ones.
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More than anyone, she really only has her wits, her persuasive words, and, yes, her lies, to help her survive.
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Alarmed, she gathered her wits, frantically riding her bike around Frankfurt to collect the paperwork necessary to leave the country.
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Tygen (Brandon Williams) is a hair metal narcissist who can't finish a sentence; his entourage are vamps and half-wits.
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In Romantic drama, it's mainly women who lose their wits, and the cause is very often a trauma in love.
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The refreshing thing about Kinsey is that she doesn't pretend to be fearless when she's scared out of her wits.
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The board and the managing agent have shrugged off the concerns of shareholders, and we are at our wits' end.
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In the finale, this emperor soloist tossed aside majestic reserve and engaged the musicians in a sly game of wits.
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The groom's mother is a program manager for the Reimagining Wits Properties Program at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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Prices are upmarket, too: The Pepper & Wits supplement to address middle-age sleep loss costs $30 for a month's supply.
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He's a climate change James Bond, using his wits and gadgets and sheer will to save the day at every turn.
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According to Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Wits University, 77% of students polled wanted to return to class.
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"I was really at my wits end," she revealed in a private Q&A session for Weight Watchers members Wednesday night.
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Instead, I lived by my wits and savored the suspense, the metal-sharp taste of not knowing how I would survive.
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From there, Fedor surprised by regaining his wits and forcing a fairly significant momentum swing as Maldonado slowed to near motionlessness.
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For the writers, this is a fair fight—no occupation, just a game of who has better technology and more wits.
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On the related topic of safety, keep your wits about you when traveling, whether or not romance is on the menu.
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Every time the market pulls back, Cramer sees tons of people get scared out of their wits about a potential crash.
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Keep your wits about you, and pay more attention to the amount of capital companies raise relative to their cash needs.
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The point is to stay sober enough that you have your wits about you and your line of thinking isn't impaired.
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To this day I have made my living with my wits and my fingers, rather than my back and my hands.
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As this new anthology of her work demonstrates, she had fresh eyes, quick wits, good feelers and was murderously well-read.
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It's a sensitive, probing and uncommonly wise volume that will send you back into Roth's work with fresh eyes and wits.
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In Cervantes's "Don Quixote," the eponymous hero has lost his wits as a result of reading too many late-knight romances.
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But if any team can keep their wits about them amidst a chaotic battle filled with turnovers, it'll be Air Force.
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A Wits postdoc, Aurore Val, had just submitted a critique to the Journal of Human Evolution , challenging the body-disposal claim.
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Survival in England's top flight is more than a battle of wits, or even money; it is a war of information.
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It may help our sons develop confidence, as they see how much they can accomplish simply by counting on their wits.
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On Wednesday afternoon, a Texas contractor became trapped inside an ATM building and used his wits (and some paper) to get out.
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"Have your wits about you, it promises to be a bit of a day," Miranda said in his annual 'Good Morning' tweets.
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A24 February typically isn't the month we associate with tucking into a movie theater and having the wits scared out of us.
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Yet modesty is also due, about forces greater than the wits and power of even historically aware societies are able to contain.
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But rather than treat this game as an ultra-serious battle of toughness and wits, the Buffaloes are having fun with it.
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As with vanilla chess, Hyperchess is a war of wits between two players who are both attempting to trap the opposing king.
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While Lifehacker's Abu Zafar relied on just his wits and smartphone, I depended on Amazon Alexa to do all my dirty work.
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However, "it will offer investors more opportunity if you have lots of speculation, if they keep their wits about them," Buffett said.
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This distracted environment is not the ideal place for a group of students to study before a big test of their wits.
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She has no fighting skills other than her wits, but she's going to die in her bed at a ripe old age.
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Even when they're discussing the darker sides of life and death, the sisters keep their spirits up, wits sharp, and smiles easy.
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That get-together, he says, scared the wits out of him, because he had no idea how bad mental illness could be.
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Similar to the American cattle rustler and the English highwayman, Australia's bushrangers lived outside the law, surviving on their wits and guns.
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Before the Super Bowl are two epic games showing the battle of wits and cuteness: The Puppy Bowl and The Kitten Bowl.
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So, they're a tough matchup so you better have all your wits about you and you better execute well at both ends.
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She just needs to keep her wits about her, so she find her way to the right room, at the right time.
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Wits like Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde used short bon mots to slice open our social ills, personal despair and sexual politics.
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A great part of the film's appeal is in watching the down-and-dirty cop match wits with the aloof master criminal.
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Women went to work in air traffic control towers and, despite fears they would become hysterical in a crisis, kept their wits.
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The stage convention is that, for this scene, her hair has suddenly fallen loose over her shoulders: like her wits, it's unbound.
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They tried several different remedies, but after three weeks, they told me they were done, that they were at their wits' end.
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Family and friends remark on how the two match wits at the same level, and complement each other's playfulness and easy personality.
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Initially, the Bush press shop copped to the behavior and blamed his declining wits and health on his actions in recent years.
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Between building Vine and HQ together, the pair have reimagined mobile entertainment, giving millions a chance to show off their wits and creativity.
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Dembner has his wits about him, but he has a hard time getting around, cleaning the house and picking up after his dog.
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Sick of being a pawn in the sinful story she was given, and motivated by her wits and pain, she disrupts her surroundings.
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"We're just at our wits' end on these issues, and where she's been standing on these issues, we've been behind her," she said.
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As the round wore on, however, Bossé regained his wits enough to oblige O'Connell in a wild Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots battle.
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Not only has she made her fortune largely through her own wits and imagination, but she pays taxes and gives generously to charity.
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Across this fair nation you can find yourself some wicked wits and sharp thinkers making a name for themselves on the comedy circuit.
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Before today, the company had raised less than $30 million, and was essentially growing on its wits rather than subsidies from outside investors.
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Be aware of the news and keep your wits about you, recommends Lonely Planet editorial director Tom Hall, who is based on London.
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Neil and a couple other wits dominated the conversation, which the rest of us, I think, were both annoyed by and grateful for.
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But by Tuesday afternoon, with the unmistakable stench of rotting flesh in the air, they were sweating and at their wits&apos end.
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Aries are natural leaders and like having their wits about them, so if they're stoners, they'll avoid anything that gives them couch lock.
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But it's Bernie's bridge game that wins over Maugham, who has played with great wits like Dorothy Parker and appreciates an intellectual sourpuss.
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On Saturday night, Arrieta matched pitching wits against the Mets' Bartolo Colon, who represents the antithesis of the ideal body for an athlete.
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Every time the market pulls back, CNBC's Jim Cramer sees tons of people get scared out of their wits about a potential crash.
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With her coltish humor, Waller-Bridge is better placed in a lineage of chic and cutting wits—more Noël Coward than Lena Dunham.
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When it was over, I skated away, with a ludicrous grin but without every item of my equipment or all of my wits.
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Trump has proven to be an unconventional commander in chief who prefers to live on his wits and seems perpetually mired in crisis.
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Alexandra Hammond, loving mother of two, is at her wits' end, desperate enough to take Bean's number and put it in her purse.
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Managers at Recife's grand Arena Pernambuco are at such wits' end that they rented it out for a 15-year-old boy's birthday.
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Which means that when we face our city's daily challenges, we're often left with only our wits — and whatever is in our bag.
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These young people are essentially orphans, forced to live by their wits, and defining their turf is the primary ratification of their existence.
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WITS recently added a program called Coach for Kids, in which trained fitness professionals lead children in activities at recess and after school.
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In one, a family baptizes a daughter ("even half-wits might well have a soul to save") before leaving her at the institution.
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"For me, there is no greater thrill than stepping into a cageful of those glorious beasts and matching wits with them," she wrote.
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In back-to-back scenes, the episode hints at the impending battle of software wits between these hosts, who began the series as allies.
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Although laser sailors must rely on their own wits during competition, Burton has no shortage of people to turn to for advice at Rio.
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"There's good game design going on in there," Crapuchettes, designer at North Star Games, which publishes Wits & Wagers, Evolution, and more, said about Kingpin.
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His failing wits and charm aside, the utter failure of his former military acumen is the narrative blunder that feels most out of character.
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At wits end, Ziya waited for the chance to appear for vetting once more, but the committee was unwilling to listen or consider alternatives.
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As he manipulates the family, unearthing their deepest secrets, the family must try and regain their wits before he — or it — finishes building ... something.
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Bean is a version of Leela; both have poor impulse control that gets in the way of their otherwise quick wits and overall competence.
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Hannibal the Cannibal has become the Norman Bates of the '210s, and moviegoers are flocking to see him match wiles with Starling's native wits.
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A hare who has to live by his wits in a world of predators, Br'er Rabbit has often been seen a metaphor for slaves.
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Beyoncé dropped her new album Lemonade over the weekend, and we'll have plenty to say just as soon as we can gather our wits.
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A battle of wits ensued with Metatron eventually calling his fellow bar patron a "coward" for not stopping his sister Amara's streak of terror.
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Grant died this year.) Dr. Browne was among those who followed in her footsteps, in her case on WITS-AM (now WMEX) in Boston.
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Many puzzles stand between Link and the fulfillment of his quest, so you must sharpen your wits as you hunt for weapons and items.
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It will operate independently of M13 and P&G's portfolio, and absorb Pepper & Wits, a menopause brand that P&G Ventures had incubated internally.
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Either way, it's worth remembering and celebrating the quick wits and badassery of Leonov and Belyayev on the 52nd anniversary of their historic achievement.
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A modern-day Sherlock Holmes-type figure called "L" immediately begins to hunt Light, and a deathly battle of wits between the two ensues.
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These boys don't carry knives nor guns, no, these boys are armed with nothing but their wits and some 'cuums, as they call them.
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The Guardian reports that tuition fees at Wits are as high as 60,000 Rands (roughly $4,509) a year depending on the field of study.
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I imagine the sequel will play in much the same way—wits are crucial, as much as having an eager appetite for killing Nazis.
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It's not that Irma didn't scare the wits out of her and her partner, Jim Wallace, at their mobile home in North Fort Myers.
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Not only has she made her fortune largely through her own wits and imagination, but she also pays taxes and gives generously to charity.
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Two separate games of wits promise to fill much of the rest of this season — drug lord versus drug lord, and lawyer versus lawyer.
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But if you're planning to approach key people who have a say in your career's future, you'll want to keep your wits about you.
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Universities suspended classes last week after clashes in which police fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas at stone-throwing students at Wits.
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Hakeem arrives with his screaming baby in tow, at his wits' end and desperate for his mom to help him quiet the baby's cries.
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Jeremy DeSilva, a Dartmouth paleoanthropologist who collaborates with Berger, recalls that when he visited Wits in 2009 Berger offered to open the fossil vault.
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Rather, it's to view 20th-century history as an accumulation of hard-won knowledge that arose from using our wits to understand the climate.
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But Stepanek, a former top-10 player, was in no mood to go away quietly and the fifth set was an engrossing battle of wits.
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This battle of wits, speed and luck has some close moments, but we promise there is a happy ending … as long as you're Team Iguana.
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The 28-year-old Korean-American typically matches wits with other top players on high-stakes internet sites or at the big Las Vegas casinos.
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Armed with dragons, an ever-growing army, and their wits, the sibling-spouses fought hard to set up a lasting royal legacy for House Targaryen.
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Luke will bond and match wits with Colt (Ashton Kutcher) and Bennett patriarch Beau (Sam Elliott), but his past may come back to haunt him.
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This leads many voters to question whether Mr Zeman still has the fortitude to guide the country and match wits with the wily Mr Babis.
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In fight or flight, I flew, but I also still had to keep my wits about me because I still had to do my job.
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He is a loafer, synonymous in many respects with the dandy — the foppish, 19th-century urbanite man of gaudy fashions and self-congratulatory quick wits.
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The burden of proof, however, is far heavier than either man anticipated, and this battle of the wits will leave you guessing until the end.
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From there, you can gather your wits and use some of the other tools, like turning your attention inside out or dropping your safety behaviors.
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Bellamy Young's performance doesn't hurt — a blood-splattered Mellie tries desperately to keep her wits about her as Peus and Rueland threaten her children's lives.
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It's now apparent that he lacks the will or wits for such a fight, and his many struggling voters will suffer further as a result.
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But whereas Israeli defence firms tend to make their customers feel a little safer, Israeli television shows often leave them scared out of their wits.
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In the meantime, hopefully Peak Pegasus' crew hasn't gone full Tom Hanks in Cast Away and has kept their wits about them while they wait.
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He got on not so much by his wits as by his charm, and with youthful avidity he took in everything he saw and heard.
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At its best, Twitter seems to have been built to sharpen our wits; at its worst, it disseminates the politicized fears of the future perfect.
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Hundreds of idioms — absurd out of context — are irreverently scrawled in pencil and bright marker across the wall in Roni Horn's "Wits' End Sampler" (2018).
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I, personally, see nothing fun about getting my wits scared out of me for an entire month, but alas, such are the realities of Halloween.
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After several episodes, we got used to the pulsing music and traces of the Demagorgon, but we'll need our wits about us for Season 2.
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It is paramount that people have their wits about them and know that reacting in a frenzied manner can often contribute to a worse outcome.
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Demonstrators hurled rocks at shield-wielding private security guards while police fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the crowd at the Wits Johannesburg campus.
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The feud has exploded, helped along by Hedda Hopper's columns, and Aldrich is at his wits' end, trying to keep them from killing each other.
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Bears should be rambling through the wilds of Kamchatka in all their glory, scooping salmon out of streams and scaring the wits out of campers.
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He triumphs over adversity, thanks to his wits and a lot of help from young theatergoers, who are asked to shout lines and even sing.
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"I wasn't sure if anyone in the world had the wits, skill and sheer determination to solve this puzzle I had created," the Colonel wrote.
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But a long, dry stretch followed, through Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, lightened up in the 210s only by oddball wits like Ray Johnson and Lee Lozano.
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Soon the comic becomes a game of wits, and the demon guy is trying to stay one step ahead of a detective set on capturing him.
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It's not hard to read Charles' journey in The Edge as analogous to its author's: the library-dwelling intellectual using his wits to brave rougher elements.
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For example, an early scene sees the narrator entering into a battle of wits with a god who might know how to get to Dead's Town.
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It's a battle of wits between one man and one beast: a test of which can command the greatest cunning, the keenest senses, the highest skill.
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Thus "The Iceberg" is a story about one of the two men in the author's life losing his wits while the other begins to gain his.
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It pains me that most of my high school mates, who were as good as I am couldn't make it to Wits because of financial means.
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Players paired in teams of two will "use their wits and physical agility to compete on enormous, interactive game boards," CBS says of the new show.
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As wits are already pointing out, nobody who has been in a Starbucks toilet will assume that Mr Schultz is qualified to clean up the country.
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As a cerebral (yet eccentric) air sign, Aquarius would always rather use its wits to find a way around difficulties, rather than to stir up drama.
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With the NEA grant, WITS plans to expand the initiative to 33-member programs and provide training materials for teachers who want to replicate the workshops.
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For devout Fennheads, the appeal isn't just the money, it's "matching wits with Forrest," says 64-year-old Cynthia Meachum, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Showtime's Billions is ostensibly a tense battle of wits between hedge fund manager Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades Jr. (Paul Giamatti).
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Undergraduate tuition fees at Wits, one of South Africa's most expensive universities, range from 29,620-58,580 rand a year, beyond the means of many black students.
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In no other part of the world does such a large share of the population rely on their wits and their trading abilities to get by.
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Morgan's audacity lay in his restraint: He wanted to see the Windsors steadily and to see them whole, as neither pampered half-wits nor infallible deities.
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Dangers of the Death Zone Climbers who make it above 8,000 meters -- into the Death Zone, as it's known -- need to keep their wits about them.
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A City broker had to be at his desk, and with his wits about him, when the New York market opened just after lunchtime in London.
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Keeping information on-device was still the exception to the rule at I/O this week, the cloud is still where Google keeps its sharpest wits.
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"I'm here to take care of you," Tully tells her, a line whose seductive power is magnified by just how at her wits end Marlo feels.
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IBM launched its Quantum computer program in Africa today, announcing a partnership with South Africa's Wits University that will extend to 15 universities across nine countries.
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Read more " _____ Joan Walsh in The Nation: "As we marvel or chortle or freak out over these many new revelations, let's keep our wits about us.
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The idea that their job was to get into an experimental airplane and struggle to stay alive just by their wits — I wanted to do that.
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After Everyman repents of his sins, Good Deeds does gather her strength, and she calls on Beauty, Discretion, Strength, Knowledge, and Five Wits to join them.
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She's more like a child from a fairy tale or a young adult novel: solitary, unsupervised, left to survive by her wits in the Minnesota woods.
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The emotionally fraught struggle of wits and wills between Catra and Adora becomes a literal dance in this episode, which deals the heroes their first major setback.
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"The world of finance relies on professional expertise: stock traders and investment bankers live off their wits," said Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Unlike countries that have used space projects mainly for national prestige, since the 1980s Britain's industry has had to live on its wits, with little government support.
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It brings virtual reality technologies courtesy of VR startup The Void to the storytelling wits of Lucasfilm's ILMxLAB to the dazzling theme parks know-how of Disney.
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On one occasion, when she saw the German police approaching, Matzen describes how she kept her wits about her and began picking wildflowers as a diversion tactic.
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And by the time many parents seek help for children with ADHD or other behavioral issues, they're often at their wits' end and seeking an immediate solution.
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You sorta imagine a lot of things do for the two songwriters, each possessing dreary drawls and sleepy wits that more unimaginative types take for unrepentant stonerdom.
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"I owe the university close to 2300,220 rand ($222,250) in tuition as it stands," said the second-year education student at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).
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The investment management firm Sygnia and Johannesburg's Wits University have dropped their working links with KPMG, and others like Barclays Africa Group are assessing what to do.
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Then again, if it really was the '80s, I would definitely want to keep my wits about me while riding in the New York City subway system.
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Giving a good toast is tricky enough without trying it with half of your wits about you, so wait until afterward to enjoy your favorite beverage. 2.
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As for keeping your wits about you, Jacquelyn James, co-director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College, recommends continuing to educate yourself.
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If you want to sip on something all day long and still keep your wits about you, are you mixing up a michelada or some Pimm's cup?
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Wits University will manage access to Q from the 15 additional African education institutions, which include Addis Ababa University, the University of Nairobi and University of Lagos.
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But honestly, if a sadistic bastard like Ramsay were trying to kill us, we doubt we'd have sufficient wits about us to ponder the proper escape route.
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Scared out of their wits at the prospect of a Sanders nomination, mainstream Democrats have been calling for the field to coalesce around a single moderate alternative.
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Other hall-of-fame comedies, like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Cheers," had wits and jesters and clowns mixed in among the goody-goodies and grumps.
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"In the moments that are the most stressful — events or especially fashion shows — Ed kept his sense of humor, kept his wits," he said in an interview.
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But I also know that the best way I can protect my son from bad people is to let him practice using his own wits to survive.
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But unlike corporations with crisis management firms at their behest, small-business owners have to rely on their own wits to respond and salvage sales and relationships.
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Some argue that processed foods offers inexpensive calories, and that the fresh fruits and vegetables championed by WITS are beyond the budget of many low-income families.
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Elle uses her wits to break into tight spots, like the headquarters of the shady security firm hunting her down for involving herself in the triple homicide.
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There is a certain art historical narrative that claims Johns and Rauschenberg were the founders of Pop Art, engaged in some ideological battle of wits with Warhol.
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The latest to be charmed by the Angels' pitch-perfect combo of wits and brawn is Elizabeth Banks, co-writer and director of 2019's Charlie's Angels.
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Gary confesses that his lifelong dream is to become a fool — the sort of comedian who uses his wits to tell powerful men the truth about themselves.
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LOS ANGELES — By now we've all heard of the kids who endeavored to re-make Raiders of the Lost Ark using only their wits and a VHS camera.
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Press coverage of the app has been slow, but the three-person team is proving that all they need is their wits on social media to get noticed.
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In any case, it's entirely possible that this joke goes back further, given that the humor of the "College Wits" did not appear to be 100 percent original.
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PS Dept combines big data and the wits of a real person to make sure its users have the easiest, most accurate access to information around designer clothing.
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His flirtation with Alyssa is downright painful, particularly when they attempt to engage in a battle of wits with a speed match on the school's giant chess board.
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Clinton should save her ammunition for the first debate, where a mix of policy, ideals and, yes, a few burns will make for a compelling battle of wits.
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There were the twinned and complementary wry wits of Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy, which anchored the punchline-laden world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's 30 Rock.
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But once he got to Wits — as the university is known to students and teachers alike — he found himself plagued as much by self-doubt as financial constraints.
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Obviously everyone's hyping it up to be a huge battle of wits, so here's a breakdown of Clinton and Trump's biggest debate strengths and weaknesses going into tonight.
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" Marlene Dietrich Dietrich took a series of falls in the '70s that had wits everywhere turning the name of her most famous performance into "Falling Off Stage Again.
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The premise is pure wish fulfillment for outer space nerds: you start out stranded on an alien planet with a broken spaceship, a mining laser and your wits.
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In fact, you'd never know that the cancer evidence in the foot bone was from prehistoric times, says Edward John Odes of Wits University's School of Anatomical Sciences.
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In recent years leading up to the premiere—having been in show business since the age of 12—Seales has been sharpening her comedic wits in many ways.
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Defusing Douglas Through the seven rounds that Andre Koreshkov and Douglas Lima have matched wits, it might be said that Lima has brought out the best in Koreshkov.
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Many have tried to bring their own supply of alcohol into music festivals only to be thwarted by the prying hands and seen-it-all wits of security.
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Saturday's partial new moon eclipse creates a pretty chaotic energy to be going out within, so keep your wits about you, and make sure you're drinking enough water.
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Mike Dungan, the chairman and chief executive of Universal Music Group Nashville, noted that every country songwriting era has had wits like Roger Miller and Tom T. Hall.
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Directed by Alex Winter (yep, Bill of Bill and Ted), the video below features not only Rudd and Hawking matching wits but also great voiceover by Keanu Reeves.
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Lucky for you, I've developed a foolproof IQ test so that you can match wits with Mr. Trump and see just how much dumber you are than him.
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And in "Love in the Afternoon" (1957), at 10, she's the cellist who matches wits with an aging American tycoon (Gary Cooper) in his suite at the Ritz.
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He is enthusiastic for a campaign in which he'll match wits against Donald Trump, given Mr. Trump's racist statements and repudiation of most of the president's policy initiatives.
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Both are graceful, thoughtful, and unrushed, keeping their wits at the heart of an inflammatory tale—not to douse it but to control the course of its fury.
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But it is best described as an action-thriller, centered around a group of people who use their wits and meager resources to risk their lives for freedom.
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Even so, watching Ramon get scared out of his wits by a hallucination every time things seem to be going well for him is starting to get old.
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It's nearly impossible to figure out any of the song lyrics — a perverse state of affairs for a show purportedly about one of the world's most famous wits.
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It's not just that Lockwood has fresh eyes and quick wits, but that in her father she's lucked upon one of the great characters of this nonfiction decade.
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As much as I'd like to think I want to make a living by my wits alone, I know that relying on other people makes those stakes manageable.
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FANS COULD praise his charm, wits and warmth (unlike most French politicians, he enjoyed hobnobbing with the votes, preferably over a beer in an unpretentious zinc-clad bar).
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She latches hard onto a target, then uses her considerable wits and wile to worm her way in; a process that, all by itself, is impressive to behold.
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Danny had no magic powers, only his wits and cleverness to get him out of scrapes — making him a true hero for a kid to look up to.
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Don: I guess if we'd had our wits about us [back in 1971], we might have marched over to the Minneapolis administration's office, and said, Hey you guys!
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And sometimes she looks legitimately disheveled, but if she's got the time and wits about her to post on Instagram, then she's better off than a lot of us.
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If the last thing you want interrupting your time with friends and loved ones is a slew of fraudulent bank charges, you'll need to keep your wits about you.
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I also stopped eating an extra portion at dinner — another 300 to 400 calories — because I had my wits about me and better recognized that I was feeling full.
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In keeping with drag tradition, competitors must perform, write new material, and sew while keeping their stiletto-sharp wits about them, making Drag Race a reality-show triple threat.
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As the Man in Black was initializing his descent into his final decade — the wits and hurt of age setting into his vocals — the Heartbreakers were arguably peak Heartbreakers.
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The filmmakers smartly set the story more than a year after the original disaster and wrote characters who survive not by luck or power, but by wits and preparation.
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If not, then you're going to want to start thinking about planning for early retirement, say at age 50, when you still have your wits and body about you.
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In addition to the plot diversity, she's also got both the most loved and hated of all characters in the realm, and a solid weekly Wits score with Varys.
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In most cases, it is just a fleeting incident in a very big city, a brief reminder that it is a good idea to keep your wits about you.
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Metacritic Score: 41/100Gloria must use her own wits and cunning to fend for herself when she gets caught in a deadly war between drug cartels and DEA agents.
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With a bit of expert know-how, here's how to keep your wits about you to prevent rude, creepy and violent behaviour from happening to others in the future.
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At which point "Gremlins" explodes in an orgy of special effects, which should scare the wits out of very small children for whom, I assume, the movie was made.
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It was a particularly eventful session where we avoided two battles thanks to incredible wits, saving our strength for the "big bad" at the end of our current adventure.
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The newlywed (played by Samara Weaving) fights back, using her wits and this excessively privileged family's vast, winding house to try to survive until the game ends at dawn.
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If I could risk my life in the same way, relying on my wits to bring me back down onto the runway in one piece, that would be something.
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John's quick wits and the extensive support network that The New York Times has in place enabled us to get out of the area quickly and in one piece.
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"A great operatic career lies in his sights," Rupert Christiansen wrote in a five-star review of that performance in The Telegraph, "if he keeps his wits about him."
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Clarke had accepted a position in Germany, but Thabo Mbeki, then South Africa's Deputy President, was calling him a national hero, and Wits moved to keep him at Sterkfontein.
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Berger, who presents himself as equal parts explorer and scientist, grew up near Savannah, Georgia, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, or "Wits," in Johannesburg.
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Using your wits and whatever small pile of scratch you came to town with, you set out to build a criminal empire that sprawls across the entire Windy City.
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Sanders' discomfort is all over Shandling's face, as he stiffens his smile and darts his eyes, pausing to collect his wits (Shandling was one of comedy's all-time greatest pausers).
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Another AI coldly challenged his partner in a multihour game of wits, eventually convincing the human character to champion our AI group as fully sentient and worthy of legal protections.
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In a manner similar to old fairy tales, the food is not to be trusted, there are witches about, and anyone without their wits about them meets a nasty end.
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Desperate business owners and lime farmers once came to confession saying they were at their wits end with extortion payments and were planning to rise up in armed vigilante organizations.
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To survive was to live on your wits; it was a long way from the Peronist dream, but Chitoro and Tota kept pictures of Peron and Evita in the house.
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Attorneys for Pulev said that the fighter had got caught up in the moment following his big win and "didn't have his wits about him" when he kissed the reporter.
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It's a neat battle of wits between a group of post-apocalyptic humans and an automated manufacturing system, which is slowly consuming the world's resources to make useless consumer goods.
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In an exclusive clip of Flipping Out, the father of one and his partner, Gage Edwards, are at their wits end with their nanny Gema for blocking the nanny cam.
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When you parry an attack, land a strong strike or finish off your opponent with a killing blow, you know it was your wits and skills that bested your opponent.
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Also worth pointing out is that rabbits are portrayed in many cultures, including the U.S., as tricksters who defy rules and conventions, surviving and overcoming negative situations through their wits.
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Her extensive résumé raises the question: If her husband's affairs reflect so poorly on her ability to hold public office, isn't 20 years enough distance to bring her wits back?
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Recently you were on the radio show "Wits" and you did a speed round of the "Am I Racist?" game, where you joked that you could do it for hours.
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Forced to rely on his wits for survival, Mouse invents an imaginary monster to scare them away, but what happens when he comes face to face with his own creation?
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These are men who don't care much for rules or constraints, prototypical rebels who survive on their wits and barely contained aggression and let the chips fall where they may.
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ESPN can't throw just anyone onto "First Take" and expect him or her to match hardheaded wits against Smith, a verbal force who occasionally gets into trouble with his bosses.
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Schilt had been largely unstoppable through his career as a kickboxer, a seven foot giant with the sharpest technique and wits for fighting ever seen on a man that size.
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They were at their wits' ends about how to help more Indonesians study the Quran, Islam's holiest book, which may seem surprising in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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The only known way to kill IT is through an ancient Ritual of Chuud*, a psychic battle of the wits, and they certainly don't teach that in Derry Middle School.
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" In the 1630 plague, told so searingly by Manzoni, the sick were sent to a complex called the Lazzaretto, and "dread of sequestration and the Lazzaretto sharpened every one's wits.
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One reason to keep your wits about you while eating at Guan Fu is that you can't always tell when extreme heat is about to rain down like Judgment Day.
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Five-times Presidents Cup player Stricker has returned as an assistant captain to Woods this week in the battle of wits against International team skipper Ernie Els and his staff.
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Mr. Freidman, 49, who is known as Gene, likes to portray himself as a scrappy fighter who rose from first-generation immigrant to multimillionaire solely through his wits and fists.
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Procter & Gamble Company has introduced Pepper & Wits, a line of products for menopausal women that includes a vaginal lubricant that comes with an applicator that suggests a Beautyblender makeup sponge.
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Shortly after, Cochran released a public statement calling the suit "frivolous" and "self-contradictory," and then filed a counterclaim, suggesting Beagle's allegations are meaningless because the man is losing his wits.
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If you want to keep your wits about you and make sure you don't get embarrassingly sloppy-drunk before dessert, try this lower-alcohol cider and vermouth option and go slow.
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Doubtfire connoisseur, who took the controversial stand that lovable Daniel (Robin Williams) is the villain of the piece, appeared mostly to want to match wits with other fans of the film.
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"The burden of Group B strep has been underappreciated, particularly in low and middle-income countries," co-author Shabir Madhi of Wits University in South Africa told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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His ability to keep his wits about him under pressure was fostered ... by his attempts to throw rocks at stop signs from a basement where he was trapped with his sisters!
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" Paddock said he rarely drank alcohol when he gambled, because "at the stakes I play, you want to have all your wits about you, or as much wit as I have.
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Portal is the popular physics puzzler from Valve where players use their wits and a portal gun to fight an evil AI. Bridge Constructor Portal is the recently announced combination thereof.
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So Jon Snow may find out that he is actually the child of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, thanks to someone with the wits to sort through the dueling historical narratives.
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Like "Scoundrels," which starred Michael Caine, Steve Martin and Glenne Headly, "The Hustle" tells the tale of two rival con artists matching wits against the picturesque backdrop of the French Riviera.
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For the past week and a half, Carlsen and Caruana, the two best players in the world, have matched wits, and moves, across a table in an auditorium in hourslong games.
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DESPICABLE ME 3 Once a villain, still a curmudgeon, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) matches wits with a bad guy (Trey Parker) who has a thing for '80s fashion and music.
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He watched the doubles from the second row of the stands with the rest of the British team as his older brother matched strokes, wits and reflexes with Nadal and Lopez.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police clashed with student protesters demanding free education on Monday at the University of the Witwatersand (Wits) which had reopened after demonstrations forced its closure last week.
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The 81-year-old billionaire accused them of living off "their wits and crime" and said he would initiate mass deportations if he and his rightist allies win power next month.
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AngloGold will receive cash and deferred payment totalling about $300 million subject to subsequent performance, with additional proceeds due if Harmony developed the West Wits mines below the existing mining infrastructure.
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The more idiosyncratic images, some surreal, others more abstract, well, these are an opportunity for viewers to match wits with the imagination of the maker and construct their own plausible scenarios.
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In contrast, the star of Weir's newly published novel Artemis, Jazz (Jasmine) Bashara, inhabits a lush and bustling colony—though like Watney, she depends on her technical wits to navigate it.
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The Luther-Alice combination -- a battle of wits, mixing him seeking to curb her homicidal impulses and sexual chemistry -- has consistently been a highlight of the show, and that remains the case.
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It was a good show — but it wasn't quite the Billions I love, with Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) locked in a battle of wits and shady dealings.
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Marjorie's at her wits' end; not only does Lee's biography of Fanny Brice sound completely unappealing, but Lee's burned every bridge there is to be burned in the literary and publishing worlds.
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At his wits' end, the estate manager marched into the branch, along with bosses of trade unions and a tea planters' group, even as Nuxalbari's owners barraged the bank's headquarters with pleas.
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Rachel's mom follows them to the set with another doctor who is trying to assess whether or not Rachel is capable of taking care of herself and has her wits about her.
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Much of the show is focused on a high-stakes game of wits between L and Light, with Light trying to avoid capture, and L attempting to discover the identity of Kira.
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That record looked in severe peril on Tuesday, however, as he became embroiled in an engrossing battle of wits with Czech qualifier Radek Stepanek, at 22013 the oldest man in the draw.
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"[Our] studies show the origins of these diseases occurred in our ancient relatives millions of years before modern industrial societies existed," said Edward Odes, a Wits scientist who contributed to both papers.
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Investors who kept their wits during the financial crisis ended up recouping not only all their losses but also were still around to participate in the longest-running bull market in history.
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"A lot of those families are just at their wits' end" finding services and figuring out how to pay for them, including as autistic children grow into independent, employed adults, she added.
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With nothing but their wits, a little teamwork, and a 55-gallon barrel, four baboons jumped the fence at a Texas research facility and got a taste of life in the wild.
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Still, they can offer what avid gamers crave: complex, strategic challenges and a chance to match wits with players around the world, said Peter Warman, CEO and founder of research firm Newzoo.
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The big companies that are being forced to reformulate products because of consumer demand or that are losing sales to more nimble "clean" indie brands seem to be at their wits' end.
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The game is an open-world shooter about taking on a rather large and extensive Bolivian drug cartel using only your wits, your helicopters, your weapons, and your aggressive rock music soundtrack.
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Students of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) also clashed with police at a demonstration on Thursday, a day after similar skirmishes at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.
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Wingard's inability to appreciate this is most evident in his treatment of the character L, the genius detective brought on to track down Light and who is Light's only match in wits.
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As one of the toughest, meanest games of the 80s, Rogue is a dungeon crawler where wits, intuition, a little bit of luck and a lot of dying will light your path.
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The latest three coronavirus cases announced on Tuesday involve a Namibian male studying at Wits University in South Africa, who was tested there but only got his results after returning to Namibia.
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The latest three coronavirus cases announced on Tuesday involve a Namibian male studying at Wits University in South Africa, who was tested there but only got his results after returning to Namibia.
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To be sure the roaches were relying on their bodies and not their wits, the researchers ran similar tests with a tiny, cockroach-inspired robot that had no sensors or feedback mechanisms.
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Whether you want to be scared out of your wits or just enjoy some witchy and ghostly humor in a more light-hearted Halloween movie, Hulu has tons of options streaming now.
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But when he gloats about killing a rhinoceros, displaying the carcass on his phone, her placid demeanor cracks and a war of wits ensues with race, inequality and immigration at its core.
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Like all the best wits, Mr. Graham is a tragic figure at heart — these photographic performances are all elegies for an age when artists had deeper convictions than we today can muster.
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But of the two, Headley's sympathy clearly lies with Dana, who manages to raise her son in a cave on nothing but her own wits, and who even Dylan prefers over Willa.
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AngloGold said the deal includes a cash and deferred payment totalling about $300 million, subject to subsequent performance, with additional proceeds due if the West Wits assets are developed below current infrastructure.
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Hosted by Liza Koshy (with commentary by original host Marc Summers!), the series sees contestants battle it out in a test of wits, strategy and athleticism — complete with a healthy dose of slime.
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After majoring in English at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg ("Wits" to South Africans), he'd moved to the United States to take premed classes at Columbia University in New York City.
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It doesn't matter how strong you are or how fast you can run, it's all about keeping your wits about yourself and packing things that can keep you safe at a moment's notice.
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The Time Stone is currently in Doctor Strange's possession, and trailers have suggested that he'll be matching wits with another member of the Black Order, Ebony Maw (as he did in the comics!).
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The central figure is a young Lebanese woman (Manal Issa), who flees the house of her sexually predatory uncle to pursue her university education and live by her wits with no fixed abode.
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I regret to say I may not be my usual, incredibly sharp self in this week's newsletter, as I am dealing with a back injury and the medication may have dulled my wits.
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When the couple takes an overdue overseas vacation, they get framed for a billionaire's death and have to rely on their wits and personal chemistry to get the better of some snooty Europeans.
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"It's the A.N.C.'s last chance to hold the middle class, and certainly in Gauteng," said David Everatt, head of the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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The most impressive battle of wits occurs during the interrogation scenes at police headquarters, where Maigret sheds his avuncular pose and vents his righteous anger — an explosion of rage that was Gabin's trademark.
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" Among the reasons he lists for now supporting Harris, Campbell said, "Judging by his recent public appearances, I think [former Vice President Joe] Biden has lost a step and doesn't have his wits.
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While hosts with established identities — sharp wits like Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee, or John Oliver and Seth Meyers, known for their long, researched takedowns — have become increasingly entrenched, newer entrants have stumbled.
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Save for an unauthorized Chinese-made Kalashnikov, purchased by one of my predecessors and handed down to every senior field security coordination officer since, we were armed with nothing more than our wits.
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As he gloats about killing a rhino, displaying the carcass on his phone, her placid demeanor cracks and a war of wits ensues — a tangle of race, inequality and immigration at its core.
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Nearly any issue of Charlie Hebdo could by comparison make the wits at The Onion, the invaluable but milder American satirical publication, seem as if they were putting on a mini-golf course.
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Until then, however — and very likely after — Gray and Winovich match wits on Fortnite, two "big 6-foot-5 dudes out here playing Xbox," Gray said, competing online before they compete in person.
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The western-inspired film was shot on the periphery of Brazil's Belo Horizonte and lovingly depicts a community where survival depends on pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and relying on your wits.
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But you need to keep all of your wits about you in situations, such as teenage parties, where there are many forces beyond your control, or that could easily get out of control.
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Scientists from the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, discovered "small, charred cylinders" during an excavation at the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains.
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"Well, I think the establishment in the Republican Party is scared out of their wits about the possibility of someone like Donald Trump coming in, who they don't have control over," Carson said.
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But her wits and the extended power she gained through these relationships help explain how she controlled Russia for about 34 years and was widely considered the most powerful woman during her heyday.
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Acting police Commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane said officers fired teargas in retaliation after students disrupted classes at Wits by chasing students who showed up for lessons out of the class with sticks.
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WITS, now a national nonprofit reaching 50,21 children in four states, is the brainchild of Nancy Easton, who spent 2350 years as a teacher, mentor and administrator in the New York school system.
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By the time you get to Saturday, it might feel as if you are in a battle of wits with the devil himself, and be careful that you don't get your eyebrows singed!
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If you have the strength and wits about you to operate a stove, you could be sinking your teeth into the most miraculous sandwich creation that your lips have ever beheld in just minutes.
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"The CDC scared us out of our wits on Friday, knocking 600 points off the Dow, then they were confident as all get out today, sending the Dow up another 400 points," Cramer said.
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Yet when he Lehoux thrust the Proveit app into my hand, even on a clogged mobile network at SXSW, it ran smoothly and I immediately felt the adrenaline rush of matching wits for money.
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Both the mother and child have recovered from the 2017 transplant, but do not yet know if the child contracted HIV, reported the transplant team at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Johannesburg.
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Why it matters: We get to see a few key differences that set one Targaryen apart from other would-be rulers of their line — and we witness one character's lifesaving quick wits at work.
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According to Reagler, WITS Digital has already had success in the organization's home base of Houston, where it hosts STEM-aligned game-writing workshops shown to improve writing and reach out to struggling students.
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The logo shows the T seemingly engaged in an act of intimacy with the P. This caused a field day for Twitter wits and gagsters: This logo is a grave public health crisis. pic.twitter.
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Like Limbo before it, Inside is a 2-D platformer that asks the player to use a combination of physics, timing, and wits to get past obstacles, avoid enemies, and hunt down hidden secrets.
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In the comedy/musical category, best picture went to "The Martian," Ridley Scott's saga about an astronaut forced to use science and his wits to survive for years after being left alone on Mars.
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Such stereotypical casting persists largely because social norms continue to dictate that women have to keep their wits about them, not just to succeed in the world, but to be accepted or stay safe.
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By plunging into a majority-defining fight for tax reform, the White House and GOP leaders are pitting their wits against the most resourceful, well-funded, and experienced players of the inside Washington game.
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On its own, the fight was thrilling, inventive, and required quick wits, but knowing a mistake would mean the darkness coming ever closer to engulfing Senua's body put my whole damn psyche on edge.
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Jo Bauer, the F.I.A.'s Formula One technical delegate who is in charge of scrutineering, has been working for the federation since 1997, pitting his wits against the hundreds of engineers employed by teams.
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You'd have to have your wits about you — one wrong step and you could trap a bee under the arch of your foot, or terrorize a swarm that directed its attention to your ankle.
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And while those at the top believe they've earned the right to be there by their wits and work, these movies suggest the systems that put them there also traffic in chance and fortune.
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It is also where they enter their orders into a computer that sends them to the kitchen, where they can communicate with one another about the needs of their tables, and gather their wits.
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The narrator explains what he now understands, having finally done the thing he dreaded for so long: A sense of joy overtook me, that we could all be scared out of our wits together.
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Schumer could never have expected he would be matching wits against Trump in the White House -- but the next stage of their political relationship promises to be one of the most intriguing stories of 2017.
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I lost my wits for a minute, staring and standing in complete awe, trying to take it all in, and the usher had to double back and grab me to take me to my seats.
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Dany and Sansa's real-talk conversation feels less like a catfight and more like a battle of wits between two women at the height of their individual fields, who can't agree on a common outcome.
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But she was always the perfect partner for Peter because she understood she didn't need them, instead learning to use nothing but her own wits and cunning to do her part for New York City.
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Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg discovered the 1.7 million-year-old cancerous foot in South Africa's Swartkrans Cave, a site renowned for its rich archaeological treasures, especially ancestral human remains.
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It feels like a game of wits sometimes: me coming up with logical reasons why I don't deserve the emotional abuse, with my brain responding that whatever I'm using as an argument is probably flawed.
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Randy Couture knocked Tim Sylvia flat on his rump in the first round of their title fight, hopped on his back, and spent the next four minutes doing nothing while Big Tim recovered his wits.
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This was all done to revitalize the American luxury carmaker in the hopes a new area code could help it build cars that could match wits with German luxury car brands on the global market.
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But by the time they met, she was worldly enough to beguile him, having spent almost two decades living by her wits as a single woman, sharpening her skills in the office and the bedroom.
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Few GMs are shrewder than Daniels, and even fewer meld those wits with a big-market budget, but the stakes are higher than ever as the pool of outside reinforcements is at its most shallow.
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Also, while it's off recreational drugs, Apple Music is still balkier than Spotify, and is more likely to leave you staring at a spinning red line as it gathers its wits and looks for songs.
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Protesters in Pretoria on Thursday cited the case of Mcebo Dlamini, a leader of the #FeesMustFall protests and former president of Wits' student council, who was denied bail by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
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I would have liked more genuinely out-of-the-box composing, like the sharply drawn duel of wits between Boonyi (sung by the intelligent, beguiling soprano Andriana Chuchman) and the cunning, blackmailing schoolteacher (Geoffrey Agpalo).
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It's captained by Petrino, more or less universally regarded as an ogre, but an extremely competent one, the kind who is liable to club anyone that wanders into its path without their wits about them.
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Several students hurled rocks at the main building of the university known as "Wits", shattering windows, after they were prevented from entering by private security guards who retaliated by throwing rocks back at the students.
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So you have the brains and resources of every one from geniuses like Priestley and Pasteur to modern big business combines like ICI and Du Pont, pitted against the wits of one poor African lion.
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AngloGold said the deal with Harmony included a cash and deferred payment totalling about $300 million, subject to subsequent performance, with additional proceeds due if the West Wits mines were developed below existing mining infrastructure.
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Danny has become hardened after a year of living by his wits, having run away from Child Protective Services and with no qualms about pulling a gun on a man who tries to stiff him.
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Gorbachev walked slowly with a cane, but his smile was as captivating as always, his wits as sharp as usual and his reactions quick during the rare, hour-long interview at his foundation's office in Moscow.
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Thankfully my mom has quick wits and said very loudly, "Kenny grab the gun" Kenny is my dad, although that doesn't matter, and mind you he was not there, just us girls like i previously said.
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"A woman needs to always have her wits about her and needs to realize that there are predators out there," she told Fox News at her annual Cancer Schmancer Health Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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What this all really comes down to is a game of wits between the prudish gatekeepers and horny kids, and whether the former can figure out how to execute a system that the latter can't exploit.
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In the 2004 masterpiece Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, mercenary Naked Snake needs to elude superpowered Soviet agents in the forests of Russia using his wits, strength, and his capacity to actually digest live snakes.
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But if you can't focus for long enough to match wits with real-life decisions faced by Jobs, we may already have our answer about your level of determination, let alone fitness to be an icon.
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Now, based on little more but my limited wits and slightly unhealthy knowledge of Westerosi history, here's who to add to your Game of Thrones death pool, from least likely to die to most definitely dead.
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She's just driven to her wits' end, and there's nothing else she can physically do other than believe that he is evil, that she is a victim, and that this awful thing has happened to her.
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Fresh off the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, a woman at the end of her wits leaves London for Los Angeles to find the father who abandoned her as a toddler.
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This week's episode — which should've included a brief intermission for Adam Rippon's short program — featured the beloved Snatch Game challenge, in which the queens impersonate celebrities in a game show battle of wits and laugh grabs.
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Robert Earle, who tested the wits of hundreds of students and countless television viewers as moderator of the long-running quiz show "The General Electric College Bowl," died on Wednesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 93.
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I'm told this class was about 15 people strong; add the wits of the veteran constructors Andy Kravis and Mr. Last and you get a very busy hive of very brainy bees putting together this grid.
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To reveal more would be unfair, but suffice to say that, like the entombed civilian contractor played by Ryan Reynolds in Rodrigo Cortés's "Buried," Isaac knows that his escape might depend more on wits than weapons.
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Amazingly, though, that eclipse stretched out over another 27 years, a period that Kaplan understandably struggles to make as captivating as the days of playing gin rummy with Samuel Goldwyn and matching wits with Cole Porter.
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Taylor-Joy is remarkable in the role, her wide-eyed innocence entwined with a thread of cunning—proof either of her quick wits, scarcely unusual in a clever and curious girl, or of some fell purpose.
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One day later, McCain is attempting to play a new hand in the battle of wits, and took to Twitter to let the world know that she (and conservative women like her) simply won't be silenced.
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As part of a program called Wellness in the Schools (WITS), she is spending three years at P.S. 333, teaching cooking and nutrition classes to children and organizing educational events for their parents after school hours.
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I did find it challenging to get started, but aside from a few really tough nuts (which did cause a sinking feeling) I was able to keep my wits about me and gradually crawl to completion.
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This lightly fictionalized account of Eminem's origin story depicts the rapper at the end of his wits, living in a trailer park with his mother and taking the bus to his job at a car factory.
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But the twist is that his natural charm and quick wits make him good at it, and as he gets deeper into the job during the show's middle episodes, he begins to take pride in it.
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When he'd started picking apart the console's software a decade earlier, it had seemed like harmless fun—a way for him and his friends to match wits with the corporate engineers whose ranks they yearned to join.
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But very late Saturday night, the Boston catcher used his legs and wits to score the winning run in the 22th inning to cap a wild Red Sox 25-29 victory over the surging Kansas City Royals.
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The company says this entire platform isn't a step away from hardware as much as it is the startup showing off some of the tracking wits that it's dedicated so much of its engineering towards figuring out.
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"WITS Digital teaches students to tell their stories through the creation of video games in partnership with teacher-owned, instructional design firm, Histrionix Learning Company," says Robin Reagler, Executive Director of the nonprofit Writers in the Schools.
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The vice president is at "wits' end," a Pence loyalist told The Washington Post's Ashley Parker, following Thursday's news that the vice president has hired outside legal counsel to deal with inquiries related to the Russia investigation.
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IBM brings its Quantum computer program to 16 African universities IBM launched its Quantum computer program in Africa in June in a partnership with South Africa's Wits University that will extend to 15 universities across nine countries.
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It is tempting, and pleasant, to divert attention to players who act as their teams' tactical foundation; this gives basketball a matching-of-wits component that makes for easier discussions and more liberal use of the telestrator.
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Vesper Holly is the heroine of Lloyd Alexander's "The Illyrian Adventure" and multiple sequels: she's smart, feisty, thoughtful and resourceful, and in each book she saves herself and her companions using her own wits and know-how.
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" Morissette continues on by promising to "share more specifics once i have my wits back about me," but for now, she's expressing her frustration that "this culture is not set up to honor women properly after birth.
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There's a ton of craft in this grid, in two senses of the word — you have to have your wits about you, first of all, and even the littlest giveaway fill is presented in an original way.
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Students at the University of the Witwatersand (Wits) — the where most of the clashes with police occurred in the last week — gathered outside a court in Johannesburg in support of their colleagues facing charges of public disturbance.
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Doctors in the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre transplant unit in Johannesburg announced last week that they had performed a liver transplant from a living HIV-positive donor to an uninfected patient, the first in the world.
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I checked with teachers at Laurel, and they confirmed my suspicion that girls who had a great handle on the material often continued to overdo it — counting only on their work ethic and never on their wits.
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Smartly cast, it operates as a mystery, a satire, a battle of wits and perhaps foremost, a provocative consideration of the dangers of hero worship, and the way media manipulation can be used to seduce a gullible public.
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Hecht set up a playwriting partnership with Charles MacArthur, another escapee from Chicago's newspapers, and, for a while, joined the journalistic and theatrical wits of the Algonquin Round Table, some of them contributors to the fledgling New Yorker .
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What the Wilsons encounter, in the course of the plot, is harrowing and outlandish, but they have too many wits to be frightened out of them, and it's the very normality of the family that sees them through.
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Of course, Mr. Bloomberg would say that he is running for an entirely different reason, which also happens to be very billionairey: He thinks he's the only one with the wits and war chest to pull it off.
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The rollicking America of my youth where one made his way by wits and sweat equity is evolving into a much less adventuresome place, a collectivist safe house, where trophies are awarded for nothing more than showing up.
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Ralph Solecki, an archaeologist whose research helped debunk the view of Neanderthals as heartless and brutish half-wits and inspired a popular series of novels about prehistoric life, died on March 20 in Livingston, N.J. He was 101.
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In both cases, they rely on their wits; they're just ballsy enough to make their schemes work, and more ballsy or clever than us, the schmucks who still work hard to earn our money the old-fashioned way.
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Al Franken The Minnesota senator and former "Saturday Night Live" writer would be a formidable match to Trump when it comes to wits, and hails from a state with a Democratic governor -- giving him buzz in some Democratic circles.
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But the clash is ultimately a battle of wits between Trump, who never likes to admit he is wrong, and intelligence agencies that insist they have the evidence to back up their conclusions about the Kremlin's alleged election operation.
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"I felt that was the kind of job where you had to be alert and you had to have your wits about you and be able to respond to developments that you couldn't plan for or anticipate," explained Yellen.
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Siri has run into quite a bit more competition over the past few years as Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and Google Assistant have grown in their capabilities and made the shortcomings of Siri's AI wits a bit more evident.
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One of the greatest parts of the show is its premise – what happens when you strand 20 strangers together on a tropical island with nothing but their wits and their clothes, and then make them conspire against each other?
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Well, the internet's quick fingers and even quicker wits pointed out that the White House's caption (Andrea Hanks, the official White House photographer, took the photo) omitted one of the people photographed: the first gentleman of Luxembourg, Gauthier Destenay.
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A new survey says three-quarters of people looking after elderly family members are at their wits' end, and many have considered suicide, or worse: last year police recorded 44 cases of murder or attempted murder in such homes.
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I bring and drop off a copy of Codenames and copy of Wits and Wagers that my editor gave me—my plan had always been to donate one copy of Codenames to the guards and another to the detainees.
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Behold Albuquerque's own King Lear, returned to his wits after a lengthy bout of madness — Chuck's is a psychosomatic illness, but work with me here — and is furious not about the loss of a kingdom but of a client.
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She said she had met with neighborhood groups as well as co-op boards from nearby buildings, "and they are just at their wits' end — I told them to tell their residents not to buy anything" from the vendors.
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If you're truly at wits' end with Equifax, the rest of the nebulous credit monitoring industry, and media reports, experts say it's worth calling upon a trusted financial advisor or or other knowledgable source to help navigate the fallout.
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In the dear old boxcar days, the children were feral, living off garbage and their wits; in the subsequent books, they're rich kids briefly roughing it on a break from their busy schedules of endless vacations and crime solving.
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He explained the fine points of the dozens — a street-corner battle of wits in which participants traded insults — and analyzed traditional poems like "The Signifying Monkey," whose opening line provided Professor Abrahams with the title of his book.
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They agree to stay away from home for at least as long it took to complete their traineeship — usually two or three years — plus a day, and to live by their wits, their trade and the generosity of strangers.
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And like many stock pickers these days, the portfolio managers at Parnassus Investments, a mutual fund company that invests mostly in large American companies, were at their wits' end as they gathered for the firm's weekly investment committee meeting.
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Nothing that ought to have been understood about that war could have been gleaned from the tone and the disposition of the arguers alone—there were meek voices and furious partisans, civil conversationalists and rude wits on both sides.
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This is living on your wits, with, yes, a bit more admin thrown in, and of course the bloody tax return, the invoices, the panic about whether you can afford to take a break, the constant tension at home . . .
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After making their way to Turkey, they took a rubber boat to Greece—a perilous trip that took them and their fellow refugees over eight hours—and from there, marshaled their wits and remaining resources to get from Athens to Amsterdam.
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One of the challenges HoloLens is going to have to continue to face is that when you're wearing one and interacting with things that nobody can see, you look like someone who's three marbles short of a full set of wits.
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And while I may think you are taking advantage of sick people by selling them things that oftentimes are snake oil, people are at their wits' end and want relief for whatever ails them, and are often willing to try anything.
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No doubt Goldman will be best remembered for concocting a battle of wits with a Sicilian, and imagining Westley the stable boy growing up into the Dread Pirate Roberts (spoiler alert) in the '80s ... however, his career stretched across decades.
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He has to outpace the assassin and uncover the conspiracy, armed with only his wits, the help of Ms. Dunaway and a killer wardrobe of layered basics: a gray herringbone blazer; a navy wool sweater; a chambray dress shirt; and bluejeans.
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Pamela has a duel of wits with Hilda and understatedly tender moments with Chuffy and her mother; Gurney brawls with Staggles; a drunk and haplessly randy Staggles puts moves on both Hilda and the housemaid, Alice (Annie Jackson), who are mortified.
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In 1990, Mr. Meyer edited an anthology, "Pundits, Poets and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns" (1990), in which he quoted an essayist's prediction in 1866 that with "the rise of neutral, fact-based reporting," editorials would soon be obsolete.
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To Kaufman, we are carved out and beaten down by a consumer society; how he might apply his wits to a developing nation, say, whose citizens strive to ease, rather than stultify, their lives with goods and services, I cannot imagine.
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It can't just be a motley collection of incompetent grifters, each misruling their own little fiefdom, trying to stay in their boss's good graces, succeeding less through wits than a congenital lack of shame and the unstinting institutional support of GOP donors.
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That's a lot of ground to cover of course, but if your friends and family have their wits about them, you'll quickly get alerted by a barrage of notifications from them asking why you're hawking links to dodgy sites or dodgier downloads.
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They flatter our lofty conception of ourselves — no chumps are we, with our wits about us and our nose for baloney as fine as a butcher's — and they satisfy the secret part of us that delights in gossip and goggles at audacity.
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In the trailer, Ed seems to be the bell of the ball at the NSA, regularly chilling with NSA dudes at strip clubs and wowing superiors like the NSA deputy director with his superior wits, showcasing himself as the NSA all-star.
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"She liked the nice Wall Street life and their home on Long Island, not the insane world of D.C. She is tired of his naked ambition, which is so enormous that it left her at her wits' end," a source told Page Six.
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A distaff remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the film has her and Rebel Wilson playing a pair of con artists who are only too happy to let men underestimate their strength and their wits — all the easier to screw them over, you see.
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A new version called the A321XLR is the latest study on the drawing board in a battle of wits as both jetmakers battle for supremacy in the 3213-270-seat segment, valued by analysts at hundreds of billion of dollars over 20 years.
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If I were a healthy person aged 65 or older today, I would exercise my wits by trying to reach legendary rank in Hearthstone, get an occasional workout in with the HTC Vive, keep my fingers nimble by casually playing Super Smash Bros.
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Clambering back to his feet after the mid-race mayhem that left South Korea's Park Sanghoon in hospital, Viviani kept his wits about him during the rest of the 160-lap points race — the sixth and final element of the two-day event.
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How many of us, if were were put in that situation where we had to survive on our wits and knowledge of what we could farm or eat, or how to trap and kill a rabbit, how many of us could do it?
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The characters have more in common that it might appear at first blush: Both are ambivalent, troubled heroes who can't help but step up for those in need, and both rely on their wits as much as they do their physical gifts.
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It's an opt-in service and does not prevent you from reading fake news, it simply seeks to offer a helpful reminder to folks to keep their wits about them while reading things online, and to not take everything they see as fact.
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They do so by using their wits, their cash, information from friends who have already made the journey (most commonly received via WhatsApp messages or Facebook posts), and by tapping into a loosely affiliated network of people-smugglers they find along the way.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct 4 (Reuters) - One of South Africa's leading seats of learning, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), is dropping KPMG as its auditor after a scandal about the firm's work for businessman friends of President Jacob Zuma, it said on Wednesday.
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Nishioka, who lost to Verdasco at this year's French Open, roared back after tamely surrendering the opening set and kept his wits about him in the tiebreak to wrap up his first career victory over the Spaniard in two hours 20 minutes.
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Keanu Reeves plays Jack, a gum-chewing Los Angeles detective who foils an attempted domestic terror attack by jaded ex-bomb squad member Howard (Dennis Hopper) and ignites a rivalry of wits, with the citizens of LA as pawns in Howard's games.
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The key is to keep your wits about when you choose to be an idiot: practice enthusiastic sexual consent; research the effects of any weird drugs you take, control the dose/set/setting, and make sure you're not taking anything containing fentanyl.
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The boom year of 2018 may be unlikely to repeat itself, but if leaders in the United States and overseas keep their wits about them — far from a guarantee given recent events — there's no reason 2019 needs to be a bad year.
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Like a wits'-end Faye Dunaway, coming to see a private eye to help get her out of trouble, I was in the midst of a somewhat—not to put too fine a point on it—bleak period in my career and marriage.
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The first (and best) in what would become a successful franchise, "The Thin Man" (1934) is Hollywood screwball comedy at its most sophisticated: Everybody looks great in evening wear, cracks wise, and downs staggering amounts of alcohol while keeping their wits about them.
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Using her wits and a magical ability called Charm that she has been forbidden to use, but does under these urgent conditions, Min manages to get on her brother's ship by disguising herself as a recently slain male cadet whose ghost she encounters.
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Fully two thirds date from the 1960s, when Winogrand was in peak form, hungry each day to match his wits with an unpredictable world as he hit the sidewalk, cramming the era's pandemonium into his 53mm wide-angle frames with an unrivaled voracity.
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There's some evidence for this in the season six episode "The Door," when we see how being warged into by Bran, even temporarily, robs Hodor of his wits and ultimately leaves him fixated on a single purpose for the rest of his life.
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Commentators from across the web were impressed with Mr. Cruz's quick wits, and they said that Mr. Trump seemed to regain his footing after being rattled when the Texas senator brought Mr. Trump's Scottish mother into an argument over his eligibility to be president.
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Unlike most movies about children with disabilities, this film, directed by Janet Grillo, from a screenplay by Jennifer Deaton, doesn't sugarcoat the challenges faced by Glory's parents, Mark (Scott Cohen) and Kay (Famke Janssen), who are at their wits' end taking care of her.
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In particular, the film uses everything from candles to cellphone screens to increase the tension in moments when the monster has, say, cut power to a city block and the characters need to cross vast swaths of darkness with only their wits to protect them.
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"It's more about a period of time when I was feeling incredibly lonely and sort of at my wits' end, and I was looking for anything, looking for an outlet, so it is not really like a salacious sex story," she said in the interview.
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Regardless, Olenna has been one of the series's consistent high points, and it's good to see her going out with dignity and control, keeping her tongue and her wits sharp even after her keep has fallen, her strategy has failed, and her death is guaranteed.
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The company has delivered some firmware updates to its camera, which it's now calling OZO+, giving it some new image processing wits, as well as the ability to export depth maps so that those capturing in VR can begin to experiment with "mixed reality" storytelling.
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At Airbus, Bouvier will be embarking on a battle of wits with a new strategy head at arch-rival Boeing CO. Chris Raymond, until recently head of Boeing's Autonomous Systems business, recently became vice-president for enterprise strategy under finance director Greg Smith, sources said.
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"Due to its preservation we don't know whether the single cancerous foot bone belongs to an adult or child, nor whether the cancer caused the death of this individual," Bernhard Zipfel, a Wits scientist and co-author of the study, said in a statement.
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From the 1980s, amid unease about the suddenness of Japan's runaway economic growth and the ostentatious displays of wealth that accompanied it, a darker-themed (and much taller) Godzilla challenged the wits of dithering bureaucrats and smashed his way through Tokyo's new office buildings.
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Other than that, this team is too Dorne-y for my own personal comfort (yes, two Dornish characters are two too many) but the presence of The Sons of the Harpy and Olenna Tyrell should help out mightily in the wits and body count departments.
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In fact, one suspects the couple have overestimated their own wits and wiles among such worldly, cynical people: They seem to think this is all some marvelous game of skill, that playing at history is like placing bets at a casino table in Barry Lyndon.
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In the series, the game that has become a worldwide phenomenon comes to life as teams of two people use their wits and physical agility to compete on enormous, interactive game boards featuring next generation technology to conquer CANDY CRUSH and be crowned the champions.
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But this optimism, coupled with his overt sympathies for the downtrodden and a working style that put an emphasis on freedom of movement, unencumbered by any equipment except a camera and his wits, also served to keep him photographing until the end of his life.
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At wits' end, Sylvia Mackey wrote to the commissioner at the time, Paul Tagliabue, who in his last days at the helm of the league pushed for the approval of the 88 Plan, which paid players $88,000 a year when it was introduced in 2007.
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Awash in unpaid bills and barely able to gather her wits to declare bankruptcy, she nevertheless tries to buck up herself and her two grown daughters with tales of the fortitude and defiance of the pioneers who tamed the western frontier in days of yore.
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Peter Parker, stranded in the middle of nowhere, unsure of what to do next, with only his wits to help him, arrives at a solution that's distressingly common in our own world: When in doubt, find your richest friend and ask for some cash.
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The Bakers — Danny; his older brother and sister; and his parents, Spud and Bet (Peter Kay and Lucy Speed) — live in a working-class, pre-gentrified South London where your own wits get you from cradle to grave, with no help from the government.
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Out of desperation, Roman also embarks on an ill-advised enterprise, one that threatens to have serious consequences -- not a surprise, given that the story begins with the character at his wits' end, before flashing back three weeks to explain how he reached that juncture.
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Now he has it, and he is getting the full experience: not just the full stadiums, the razzmatazz and the chance to pit his wits against the likes of José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger, but the politics, the impatience and the cutthroat Darwinism, too.
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Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey and their twins were all smiles on Father's Day ... and Nick took a shot at the "haters" -- presumably us -- who have reported Mariah is at wits' end because he has dragged his feet signing docs that would make their divorce final.
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"We've now seen that you can package the complexity of a large brain in a tiny packet," said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at Wits University in South Africa and an author of the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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You don't cut corners and you make sure people know you'll do things "the right way," but you're also very clever—able to find a loophole just about anywhere—using your wits to talk your way into good graces if that's the only option.
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At the start of the Winter Olympics two weeks ago, the nasty, brutish and short (and endlessly mockable) state known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea demonstrated it has the wits to boondoggle the gullible with a combination of glitz and sophisticated propaganda.
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The more she delays holding a press conference the more it becomes a point of pride in the press corps that Clinton is hiding from their razor-sharp wits, and the more everyone will be aiming to bring her down when she does hold one.
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Just keep your wits about you—with Jupiter in the picture, you're going to be overly optimistic about how much money you actually have, so double check your accounts and set a budget before you even leave the house, let alone decide to take the bill.
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The biography condemns Margaret for her constant and callous rudeness, but Brown spares more than a hint of outrage for the bohemian wits she spent her time with, who used Margaret for her campy glamour, wrote scathing things about her in their diaries, and then published them.
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"I always tried to get a good night's sleep so that I'd wake up with my wits about me and not be exhausted," said Yellen Monday night during a discussion moderated by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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"The state and the universities are trying to break us," student leader Shaeera Kalla told VICE News in her first statement since she was hospitalized after being shot 13 times in the back with rubber bullets during a demonstration at Wits University two weeks ago in Johannesburg.
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The ultimate potential offered by 360 cameras that can capture everything and use software tricks to find the shot you desire could to be revolutionary, but the necessary computer vision wits to pull that off on the Fusion specifically is an area GoPro isn't touching right now.
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The point these people -- who used to pit their lives and wits against what they saw as an occupying enemy force and are now peaceful -- are making is that outside of the security services, the rest of the UK is blissfully unaware of how events are unraveling.
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I think the characters love their own eloquence — they cast their sparring explicitly as a battle of wits — but I think the toxicity of it is very real, and I felt for them while wanting to get out of their purgatorial apartment as fast as I could.
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Every day, TV anchors breathlessly report some bizarre new insult or accusation or hissy fit or Putin nuzzling by the president, as he wanders around howling in the storm like a late-stage Lear — raging, blowing, spouting, wits turning — in his White House of dark delusions.
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Her performance in last year's A Simple Favor was one of her best, combining the sleek chic of Serena Van der Woodsen with the same killer instinct that enabled her to fight off a shark with nothing but her wits and a sharp earring in The Shallows.
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THE LONEY (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25), a first novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, is considerably longer and denser than "Springtime," and it accommodates a few real horror-story jolts, but it, too, seems more interested in creating unsettling moods than in scaring the wits out of its readers.
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The setup for "The Sandman" is a bit of a stop-me-if-you've-heard-this-one-before joke, a familiar recipe: A serial killer, so intelligent and seductive he seems able to murder people from beyond his maximum-security cell, matches wits with a world-weary, brilliant cop.
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The next few hours were an exhilarating time for Graham, a dealer who lives by his wits in a fast-moving market - but who also belongs to an old school of traders that has shrunk due to major changes in the banking industry since the global financial crisis.
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Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat left home at 15, dropping out of school and living by his wits on the streets of New York until he was discovered fully formed as a primitive expressionist at the age of twenty-one.
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