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As he has matured as a scholar, Felmar has come to see the merit of qualification. His conclusions, which early in his career he (i)_____________, are now often (ii) _____________.
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Penrose is (i) _____________ theoretical physicists for engaging in (ii) _____________ by (iii) _____________ what is implied by the known data. One of his favorite examples is inflationary cosmology, which, according to him, is treated as an established theory despite a lack of evidence.
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The importance of the notion of surface in nanoscience and nanotechnology cannot be _____________: in nanomaterials, in fact, surface phenomena rather than mass properties govern the chemical and biological behavior of objects.
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People who are reluctant to oppose a court nominee straightforwardly on ideological grounds often search for any sort of peccadillo to serve as a _____________their opposition.
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One important ocean current moves warm water north and east from the Gulf Stream. As that current moves into higher latitudes, its water cools and finally sinks. This cold, highly oxygenated water is crucial in (i)_____________ the ocean's gaseous elements, rather than allowing them to become (ii) _____________, with oxygenated tops and oxygen-free bottoms.
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The type of cultural snobbery long associated with painting in the art world, whereby beloved popular works are (i)_____________ by critics, has appeared in the popular music industry. Bands with (ii)_____________ are critically (iii)_____________, ,whereas the more rarefied and minimally marketed performers can do no wrong in the opinion of the critics.
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Although the book, with its many and varied approaches to its subject, might strike some readers as too loosely structured, this refreshingly nonreductive method is _____________ the complexity of the issues the author explores.
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African painters Ghada Amer and Julie Mehretu are not swayed by art-worid insiders' _____________ of aesthetic elements that can be characterized as decorative; rather, they recognize all beauty as a source of power in painting.
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It has long been thought that smell might have _____________ relation with memory, and recent research does indeed confirm that recollections tied to smell can be
stronger than memories of other types.
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Nothing in the book is (i)_____________, but happily there is no sense that the author is merely rummaging among minutiae, pursuing (ii) _____________ lines of inquiry neglected by other biographers.
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lt has been demonstrated that on Earth, no single landscape feature can be used as a quantitative indicator of past climatic conditions. The same is probably true for Mars; nevertheless, as the martian landscape is not as (i) _____________ as the terrain on Earth, with no plate tectonics, no vegetation, less water, and lower erosion rates, the landscape's (ii) _____________ the climate on Mars could be (iii)_____________.
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The country's neighbors have long wished for its citizens to become less _____________ as the additional spending could give the entire regional economy a much-needed boost.
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To help protect the environment, the United States government currently requires safe storage of coal ash for 30 years, "if feasible," but many countries that burn coal lack even such _____________ environmental safequards.
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Toni Morrison's 1998 novel was originally called War, but her publisher was concered about the title's effects on efforts to market the book; in order to _____________ those apprehensions, Morrison changed the title to Paradise.
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At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making _____________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
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The watchword in astronomy is _____________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one' s mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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Increasing (i)_____________ to use land for purposes other than food production (ii) _____________expanding agriculture into currently uncultivated lands. Therefore, in order to meet growing global demand for food, more efficient means of crop production must be found.
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The figure of Gertrude Stein _____________: more than a hundred books about her have been written during the past decade or so, and recently she was depicted in a popular Hollywood flm.
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Calasso is not an academic, but the head of a distinguished publishing house in Milan. So being (i) _____________literary intellectual, he feels no obligation to adhere to the rules of the academy: he does not (ii)_____________ the academic buzzwords and does not (iii) _____________ the prestige networks of a persistently self-regarding, insular, and entrenched academic world.
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A key characteristic in the author's presentation of his character's dreary life is _____________: paragraphs are short, sentences are laconic, patterns of repetition and
circularity are evoked by means of symbolic shorthand.
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