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Adjective
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The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025 -
Although the trappings and structures of information-sharing have existed for years, the actual sharing of information that would help secure the external border of Europe has been fragmentary.—
Martin A. Schain,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2016
Adjective
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Through testing the shorts, criminalists got a partial DNA profile for an unidentified man in May 2020, Thoemmes said.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Jan. 2025
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During the past two years, Bieber has not toured or released new music, citing health issues, including the effects of partial paralysis caused by Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This includes a sectional sofa, a coffee table, an ottoman with storage, and two storage covers.—
Michelle Mastro,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Jan. 2025
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Put out an entire sectional sofa with hide-away bed.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that households with incomes in the top 20% would disproportionately benefit from any effort to raise the maximum allowable deductions for state and local taxes.—
Emily Wilkins,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Currently, little is known about the attacker, who is believed to have entered the Khans' property alone, according to local reports, but CCTV may help to identify him.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Cross-sectional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-sectional. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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