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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they have ideas for the new project that are a world away from his own
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Recent Examples of world
Creating Lasting Connections Through Art and Nostalgia In a world overwhelmed by digital noise, the combination of art and nostalgia offers businesses a way to create meaningful, lasting connections with their audience.
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Rhett Power, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
While stats can mean everything or nothing in the contemporary awards landscape, support for an individual film can make a world of difference in races like this.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
This story is part of The Star’s ongoing coverage of the rapidly expanding world of the Kansas City Chiefs.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
In our personal lives, texts are faster; in our professional ones, email is how many of us do much of our communicating with the outside world.
—Ashley Abramson, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
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Rhett Power, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
While stats can mean everything or nothing in the contemporary awards landscape, support for an individual film can make a world of difference in races like this.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
This story is part of The Star’s ongoing coverage of the rapidly expanding world of the Kansas City Chiefs.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
In our personal lives, texts are faster; in our professional ones, email is how many of us do much of our communicating with the outside world.
—Ashley Abramson, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for world
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The Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities Initiative is working toward this goal by exploring plant-human relationships through the methods of both humanities and science scholarship.—
Elaine Savory,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Reconstruction Amendments, including the 14th, sought to dismantle a system that had denied millions of people their humanity and legal rights.—
Paola Mendoza,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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The map has more than a million tiles on it and the videos certainly suggest a dynamic, ever-changing globe that is thronging with detail.—
Barry Collins,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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On the table next to him are a framed picture of Janet and Henry Holcomb, their beloved miniature schnauzer who passed away last year, and a globe representing Holcomb's legacy of forming many international relationships.—
Kayla Dwyer,
The Indianapolis Star,
16 Dec. 2024
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Mondadori has ambitiously grown the vivid Cabana universe beyond the magazine’s pages and by opening a complementary Milan shop in 2024 that teems with tableware, home decor, and vintage goods.—
Alia Akkam,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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Tim Yu, vice president of global communications and purpose at Jordan Brand, said the location was designed to reflect the brand universe inspired by Michael Jordan.—
Joelle Diderich,
WWD,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the dormant galaxy from which these radio bursts are originating should not contain this type of young star, according to a paper published Wednesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Specialized telescopes have enabled astronomers to track radio bursts within the Milky Way galaxy as well as up to 8 billion light-years away.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Many people, including late night host Jimmy Fallon, compared Melania's look to The Hamburglar's.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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The infamous dark web marketplace served as a global hub for illicit drug sales that prosecutors said had contributed to the death of at least six people.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2025
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Getty Images News | Getty Images Climate scientists condemned Trump’s order to remove the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, noting the pledge comes just weeks after U.S. and global scientific agencies confirmed the planet experienced its hottest year on record in 2024.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Kensington Palace said its recent $25 million investment will enhance the company’s nature data platform, expand its international reach and scale its solution to meet the increasing data requirements of its corporate and conservation customers.—
Rachel Burchfield,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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This story was updated to clarify Howard Chan’s salary and the source of that information, the information regarding the names of the 32 small business who received COVID funds and the nature of the email to Shoun Thao related to the CBCC event.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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Gianna and her father continued to share a love of the game and his mini-me was quickly on her way to carving out her own path in basketball.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, affectionally known as Gigi, were on their way to a youth basketball game in Thousand Oaks, Calif. when their helicopter crashed, killing both of them as well as seven other passengers.—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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“World.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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