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Adjective
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As agriculture became less demanding, the sector required fewer workers, enabling erstwhile farmers to work in a spectrum of other trades, including the high-technology industries of each generation, such as textiles, telegraphs, and telecommunications.—
Matthew J. Slaughter,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Find early investors in your circle of family and friends, since outside investors may be very demanding on equity and content and normally require at least a prototype to start.—
Martin Zwilling,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Per the complaint, Wiles emailed the AP on Feb. 18, saying that their attention was focused on the AP in particular.—
Caitlin Huston,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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Economists say the country’s policies, and its social norms, discourage women in particular from working more.—
Jim Tankersley,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For evolutionary biologists, this opens new windows into the past—one that compels us to reexamine the processes and selective pressures that gave rise to flight, refined locomotion and ultimately, the unparalleled diversity of birds today.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Adams’s lawyers did not even file a court motion to dismiss the case on selective prosecution grounds; such a motion would have been frivolous.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For the discriminating listener, the thousands spent outfitting a vehicle with a top-of-the-line amplifier, speakers, and subwoofers are all for naught if the source signal is a low-quality MP3 or Advanced Audio Coding music file.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Oct. 2010
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If the United States is upset with a country over its human rights abuses, for example, reducing or even cutting off economic and diplomatic ties as punishment risks ceding influence to a less discriminating China.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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The girls are both members of the school’s choir, a traditionalist institution overseen with fastidious strictness by conductor Bojan (Saša Tabaković), whose preferred repertoire of dusty hymns and local folk songs gives the girls a collective air of ethereal purity when singing.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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On the other hand, if the EU is being hit with billions in tariffs, then a view in Europe could develop that poor treatment from the U.S. requires being fastidious about Pillar Two rules.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
12 Feb. 2025
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Ko enters this week with 22 victories and as only the 25th player to earn the requisite 27 points in arguably the most exacting Hall of Fame qualification system in sports.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
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And his budgets, then as now, tended to reflect more exotic materials and more exacting processes.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Its growth comes at a challenging time for startups, as investors have generally been cautious and picky about where to put their money.—
Katie Peralta Soloff,
Axios,
19 Jan. 2025
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Add a gallon of water for pets with picky stomachs.—
Annemarie Dooling,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
29 July 2024
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This Diamond Initial Necklace from Sarah O is dainty, beautiful, sparkly, and pairs super well with other pieces.—
Victoria Montalti,
refinery29.com,
10 Jan. 2024
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“Overdemanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdemanding. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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