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Researchers have recorded around 60 separate behaviors for worker honeybees, a number that seems to _____ the achievements of many mammals: even the versatile bottlenose dolphin only performs about twice the number a worker honeybee manages.
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Despite its best efforts to stimulate sales, the bookselling business remains far from _____, for it has high fixed costs in wages and rent, and falling prices make these ever harder to spur.
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One might expect someone of such _____ views to have a comparably dour personality, but people who have worked with her talk about how she uses her considerable charm to convince people that she is right.
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Some species camouflage patterns may be _____, granting those species a higher chance of survival in a heterogeneous environment.
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In the discussions on international patent law, many (i)_____ issues will probably be pushed far into the future. This cautious approach makes diplomatic sense, since attempts over the past 15 years to reach international agreements on patents have (ii)_____ just such sensitive issues.
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The report is admittedly (i)_____ : it is intended to suggest new lines of research rather than to deal with the subject in a (ii)_____ manner.
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Cynics will dismiss the race between Richard and Gorman as two equally dull candidates. However, the notion that the two leaders are (i)_____ does not meet them, for they are as different as can be. Richard is (ii)_____ and is fastidious of her appearance. So one could hardly accuse her of being either taciturn or (iii)_____.
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People love to talk about their commutes to and from work: those with an easy commute tend to
(i)_____, while those who hate their commute think and speak of it as a core affliction, like a chronic illness. Once you raise the subject, the testimonies pour out, and, if your ears are tuned to it, you begin overhearing commute talk everywhere. People who are normally (ii)_____ may, when describing their commutes, be unexpectedly(iii)_____ divulging the intimate details of their lives.
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Every illness is a story, and when Annies began it was characterized by the kinds of _____
details that mean nothing until seen in hindsight.
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Peoples decisions about childbearing depend on innumerable personal consideration and societal factors, yet even knowing this, demographers are often _____: their projections of birth rates frequently turn out to be embarrassingly at odds with reality.
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The brain has become, for many people, _____ the biological machinations of the self, and the self-knowledge promised by neuroscience has ignited a hunger to understand how new findings weigh in on age-old questions.
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Although scientific progress leads to constant revision of ideas, one observation that has remained _____ over the years is that there are a lot of insects in the world: some 950,000 species have been identified.
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A significant element of the Gothic genre, the literary grotesque is sometimes inaccurately discussed as if it were a_____ Gothic or, conversely, as if it were something entirely different from Gothic.
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_____ is valuable in science, even when a scientific idea is true, it can be misused through grandiosity.
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Though she had some exposure to great art and high culture, it must be said the ultra athletic Marion Carstairs remained throughout her life primarily (i)_____ mental and artistic pursuits. She was by nature (ii)______.
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At the heart of present-day studies computational authorship attribution lies the hypothesis that each author has so personal a writing style that it can function as stylistic DNA. Any given author style, in other words, is regarded as (i)______ and (ii)______ every other authors writing style.
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When pulsars were first discovered, some of the astrophysicists involved briefly (i)____________ these types of stars might be (ii)____________ extraterrestrial intelligence. Specifically, the pulsar's periodic radiation pattern was initially interpreted as (iii)____________ rather than—as it turned out to be—the natural product of the spinning of a neutron star.
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Scientists suspect that the impact with which a bat lands is a function of (i)_____. Bats that roost on hard cave ceiling must land (ii)_____ to avoid injury. By contrast, since foliage is (iii)_____, a hard landing won`t hurt, and might even give the bat time to make sure it has a good grip.
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Humanity's struggle with bedbugs is ______: archaeologists have recovered remains of the parasites dating back 3,500 years to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs.
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The composer's string quartets exhibit a structural ______ that seems to challenge the conventions of the string quartet genre, which have long been celebrated for their rigor and coherence.
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