As companies dealing in satellite imagery begin to _____________ their data products diurnally, people will soon be able to see huge swaths of the planet change daily.
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The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral _____________: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
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Not only are RNA viruses common, they are _____________ in that they adapt quickly to new environments and new hosts.
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Elephants are known to use a wide variety of calls, many of them infrasonic (below the level of human hearing), in coordinating group behavior, The infrasonic calls usually have a component that is (i)______________, but these higher frequency aspects of the calls (ii)_____________ very quickly with distance, so that in the wild, human observers are often (iii)_____________ sudden coordinated movements of large groups of elephants when no signal was apparent to the observer.
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Critics have raved about the beauty of Peck's prose, but in his fiction, at least, the diction has only gotten more portentous with time, the writing more overwrought, and the symbolism more _____________.
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She was _____________ debater, always choosing to press an argument to its logical
conclusion even if the results would be subversive of the whole existing order of society.
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Receiving sole credit for a scientific breakthrough is tantamount to acquiring a much-coveted prize: small wonder, then, that scientists often _____________ the claim of first discovery.
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It is misleading to (i)_____________ the scientific literature by focusing on (ii)_____________ research as the newspaper's science reporters have sometimes done. Forced retractions of scientific publications are, in fact, relatively rare.
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Fedigan argues that, in actuality, ethologists who claim to _____________ anthropomorphism often end up simply substituting one set of anthropomorphic terms for another.
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The effects of sea-level rise that followed the last ice age were not _____________ since they were dependent on local and regional tectonic and other geological effects.
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Nineteenth-century England presents something of (i)_____________, at least to those who believe that (ii)_____________ best promotes business ethics. The defining characteristic of English company law at that time was its extreme degree of permissiveness: laissez-faire ruled in Parliament, caveat emptor in the courts, creating the ideal breeding ground for fraud and dishonesty. Yet these were the years when London became the financial center of the world and established its status as a (iii)_____________ place to do business.
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