The monitoring is not _____________: on the contrary, the defendant and his or her attorney are required to be given notice of the government's listening activists.
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The author's account of her ordeal could easily have been _____________, sugar-coated with inspiration and soggy with tears; instead, it finds her writing with candor about her struggles and describing them with a rare intimacy.
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The foundation's new president is well aware that the foundation's charter intends (i)____________ role for the office of president, but he is clearly determined to flout that intention by (ii)____________ as much power and responsibility as possible.
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While Hassler's trademark (i)____________ is sometimes useful in (ii)____________ an institution entrenched in complacency into changing its ways, such brusqueness is more often counterproductive, tending to (iii)____________ people.
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Format influences how social media researchers conceptualize data's utility: some social media providers make data available, but in a format that (i)____________ controversial context. As a result, most research projects study (ii)____________ social media posts, making most of the those posts (iii)____________ those trying to understand their value in context.
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Each memoir must (i)____________ by making an implicit claim that the life of its author is somehow (ii)____________. Thus, if the reader begins to experience a memoir as too (iii)____________, the memoir has lost its reason for being.
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The safety features of modern cars have actually had ____________ effect on people's driving: drivers are lulled into a false sense of security by their cars' sophistication and therefore drive less attentively.
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In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite ______________.
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Since beavers rely on auditory signals such as the tail slap and whining and hissing, we can infer that their hearing is _____________, although we don't know the exact sensitivity and performance of their acoustical sense.
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To call a preserved artifact a communication channel may seem like science fiction, but to paleoanthropologists the two are ________________: ancient artifacts are the media by which information is transmitted from the prehistoric past to the modern world.
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In many places there is enough land-to-sea runoff to __________ carbonate development, but where it can occur, a range of localized carbonates—including patch reefs, shoals, or pinnacle reefs—can form and grow into extensive structures.
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Robin's words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful ______________ extremes.
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It cannot be denied that there is (i)____________ underlying termite research: the often (ii)____________ agendas of work aimed at producing quick results and of the slower, more methodical approach known as basic science, which tries to discover the fundamental logic of natural processes.
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In A World on Fire, Joe Jackson draws on the biographies of two eighteenth-century chemists to bring to light intriguing tensions within their careers. Priestley, the (i)____________ chemist, was a passionate radical in virtually all of his other activities and writings. By contrast, Lavoisier, the (ii)____________ scientist, was very much a member of the social and political establishment.
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The book is not comprehensive but is, instead, (i)____________ in the most positive sense of the word: it (ii)____________ rather than settles.
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The extant evidence of Pluto's collisions with other cosmic objects over time is (i)____________. When Pluto is closest to the Sun, frozen surface material evaporates into a temporary atmosphere and eventually into space. This process (ii)____________ older impact craters, so Pluto's surface provides a record of (iii)____________ collisions.
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For certain economies, “pure” economic theory, that is, economic theory ____________ a specific social structure, is impossible, much like a concept of anatomy that investigates no specific species.
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A telescope orbiting in space, above the unruly atmosphere, is able to detect ultraviolet and infrared emissions that are blocked by Earth's atmosphere and thus _____________ to astronomers on the ground.
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There's ______________ throughout the Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple that, while hardly true to the harrowing bleakness of the early chapters of Alice Walker's novel, does bring to mind the enjoyable hokey cinematic lavishness of the film version.
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What Dr. Walther has shown is that many of the standard statistical techniques that are supposed to insure against _______________ correlations are inadequate in this case.
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