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That there were a dozen complex debates on the lawyer' s mind at any given moment did not (i)________ his ability to perform physical work; on the contrary, he labored more vigorously when simultaneously engaged in such (ii)________ forensic exercises.
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In writing about environmental issues, the author takes on some special artistic challenges. It is hard to write a good novel that takes a strong stand on a social issue, although there are a few novelists, Zola and Norris for example, who do manage to (i)________ the often circumscribing effects of (ii)________.
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The manufacturing company' s swift maneuver enabled it to evade the full impact of the increasing cost of raw materials, which brought the downfall of firms that responded less _______.
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Despite the critic' s assertion that Willa Cather' s place in the literary canon is now so entrenched that it scarcely matters if she were really a modernist, her reputation arguably remains _________.
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Some of the writers whose interviews with the Paris Review are included in this volume were caught in the final years of their lives, and these interviews thus lend ________ mood to the collection.
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Biographer John Richardson cautions that Picasso' s relationship with Surrealism is easily (i)________. He stresses that, unlike the Surrealists' , Picasso' s art was always rooted in some concrete reality, no matter how unreal the imagery may seem; even his most (ii)________ pictures are representations of the people in his life.
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While many tools can automatically locate patterns in large data sets, they cannot yet distinguish truly significant patterns from those that are (i)________. Thus statisticians, who by virtue of their training are (ii)_________ identifying (iii)________ interpretations of patterns in data, must increasingly bear the burden of scrutinizing data and challenging conclusions based on statistical flukes.
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The best argument in favor of one space after a period over two is ________ one: one space is simpler, cleaner, and more visually pleasing.
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Wald' s decision to tell Rosetta Tharpe' s story to a wider audience in Shout, Sister, Shout! (i)________ the rigor of the book' s scholarship or the acuity of its theory. The scholarly quality of the work is (ii)_________ on every page, and yet it is not a dry, specialist academic tome.
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In ancient China, tin-rich ores were not as (i)_________ as copper-rich ores, and bronze—an alloy of copper and tin—was (ii)_________ material, as tin frequently had to be transported over large distances. As a result, unalloyed copper was probably used whenever (iii)________, since the metals used for farming and domestic purposes did not need to be as strong as the metals used for hunting and fighting.
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The ________ of governmental subsidies to obscure airports that are rarely used underscores the political difficulties of cutting funds from even the most unnecessary projects.
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It can be extremely difficult to uncover direct evidence of conspiracies, given that such activities are by their very nature ________.
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In clinical research into new treatments or the causal factors of diseases, randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trials are seen as (i)________ but, given their (ii)________ often are not feasible.
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Seigel has written an important and invaluable book on the history of Western ideas of the self, showing a genuine (i)________ in analyzing philosophical views of often daunting intricacy. Though a historian by profession, he keeps to a minimum his excursions into the (ii)________ of ideas, recognizing that great minds often (iii)________ the preconceptions of their age.
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She was a star adored by directors for her ________ : there was no volatile temperament; there were no tantrums.
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The poem is not nearly as (i)________ as it has often been said to be. Granted, it would be (ii)________ to claim that the poem is self-contained or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But the poem is more self-contained than it appears when you read only fragments of it, and its allusions are often (iii)________ by their contexts or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts.
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Jane Austen belonged to the social class about which she mainly wrote, and although her novels offer abundant satire, one never has the sense that she viewed the basic elements of this social sphere as _________.
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Although technically their members were hunter-gatherers, many early Native California communities exhibited traits more typically associated with well-developed agrarian societies and, therefore, are often presented in the ethnographic literature as ________.
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Archaeopteryx had feathers on its hind limbs that helped stabilize it and acted as air brakes, allowing the otherwise _________ creature to turn more adeptly and fly steadily.
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Since responsibility for content is often _________ in multiauthor papers, it is easy to suppose that such papers may contain more instances of questionable academic practices than do papers by a single author.
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