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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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Our eating habits are rooted in our physiology, but they are also __________ the culture in which we grow up.
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Though Fine leavens her work with humor and playfulness, she can be _______ writer, mincing no words in her judgements of other scientists' work.
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The nineteenth-century legislator Robert Barnwell Rhett was known for using language so intemperate that even in an era of considerable political ______, it came almost to occupy a category of its own.
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Throughout the High Middle Ages, the English government became increasingly ______: the documents produced in the eleventh century could be placed on one large table, while the documents produced in the thirteenth fill whole rooms.
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Some have challenged scientists who attribute the surge in amphibian deaths to habitat loss, since numerous populations have (i)_____ in protected parks and nature reserved—even in remote wilderness areas: places that are removed from humans' modern effluvium and that are presumably (ii)_____ such effects.
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Though nations no longer (i)_____ nuclear physicists—the men and women who once delivered the destructive power of the atom bomb—physics still has the same power to (ii)_____ but in another way, by revealing the basic truths that underpin reality.
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Those who blame the inadequacies of science education for students' lack of reasoning skills perpetuate their productive notion of science as (i)_____, unique in its capacity to inoculate us against superstition and ignorance. Certainly a good science education can (ii)_____ habits of mind, but the (iii)_____ effect of education in nonscientific, humanistic subjects such as literature and history should not be underrated.
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