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New Zealand`s breakaway landmass proved ______ sanctuary for the tuatara, for the island lacked any terrestrial mammals that would dig up the tuatara`s slowly maturing eggs or pick off adolescents before they had a chance to breed.
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Though he said nothing, James ______ his father`s meaning; the boy was far from being so obtuse as everyone thought him to be.
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Demographic relationships that have been ______ may not be useful targets for prolonged study: that very characteristic suggests that they may continue to change rapidly.
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The ability to reproduce in her paintings the supple and shapely lines of her great-grandfather`s paintings seems to have ______ her the way a particular cast of mind might be perpetuated in another family.
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In the search for truth, the knowledge gained by scientists consists of approximations with varying degrees of certainty. Such (i)_____ truth can be highly (ii)_____, as the rapid and relatively steady progress of medical knowledge well exemplifies.
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The kilt has certainly had (i)______ history, outlawed as it was by Britain in 1746 as an emblem of nationalist subversion, then more recently (ii)______ from men`s to women`s apparel in a 2003 European Union survey, and ridiculed at various times for a wide variety of reasons.
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Having displayed his art collection in a vast modernist white space in (i)______ former warehouse, Mr. Saatchi has chosen for his new site its polar opposite, a riverside monument to civic pomposity that once housed the local government. There is nothing (ii)______ about the new location: the building`s design is bureaucratic baroque, (iii)______ style that is as declamatory as a task-force report and as self-regarding as a campaign speech.
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(i)______, we can safely infer causality by appealing to a set of general principles (Newtonian mechanics, for example) that are well understood and have been shown to apply in comparably straightforward circumstances. However, for the opposing class, which consists of (ii)______ systems like the global economy, human physiology, or the human mind itself, explanations of singular events are usually (iii)______, absent the requisite accounting for the intricate dynamics of such systems.
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The _______ of highly social species like rhesus monkeys—and like humans—is that their complex sociality is the reason for their success, but it's also the source of their greatest troubles.
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Since new movie stars seem to be cut from only a few bolts of the same bland cloth these days, it is ______ just to be in the presence, once again, of a true original.
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Once the judge had been found guilty of corruption, it was not long before he found himself ______ his position.
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Eschewing today's hovered-over kids as less plausible characters for an adventure story, Rebeca Stead set her new children's novel in nineteen-seventies New York to show children with a great deal of ______.
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The employees tasked with modeling scenarios for their company`s bankruptcy assumed that their work was merely ______: none of them expected the firm to file for bankruptcy immediately.
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The simultaneous ascension in the postwar United States of both the bulldozer and children`s "bulldozer books" was far from ______; it reflected parallels between the landscapes of fact and feeling in a country undergoing massive physical upheaval.
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Often, developing new methods for scientific research demands a willingness to reach across disciplinary boundaries, something that is notoriously difficult to carry out. Therefore, even though interdisciplinarity is often proclaimed to be (i)______, there are many structural reasons why it remains (ii)______.
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In its earliest days, the telegraph inspired (i)______ without precedent in the annals of technology. A new sense of (ii)______ across: a sense that the world was in (iii)______ , that life for one`s children and grandchildren would be very different, all because of this wondrous force and its uses.
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The enthusiasm that many English artists and writers felt regarding the Labour Party (i)______ amid complaints that arts funding remained as (ii)______. And even though the government recently announced a significant funding boost for the Arts Council, some art leaders still refuse to (iii)______ Labour.
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Fifteen years ago, the author of this scholarly monograph would have (i)______ found a university press willing to publish it. But today specialized books of this sort are (ii)______ species. Their main purchasers—university libraries—have far less money to spend on these items than they once did. Computerized catalogues, subscription content, expensive scientific journals, exploding storage costs: all these demands are (iii)______ library budgets.
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It is commonly said that each person`s aesthetic taste is ______, yet that notion overlooks a large body of shared aesthetic preferences.
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Unlike the theatrical adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, which attempted to ______ its source precisely, the adaption of Les Mislabels chooses sweeping and hurtling motion over the savoring of minute details.
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