Some paleontologists argue that despite the paucity of known specimens, the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex probably left __________ bite marks that have been preserved.
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The classical music scene today is remarkably __________, strikingly open to varied harmonic idioms, and eager to embrace experimentation and to absorb influences from world music, folk music, rock, and other genres.
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French writer Marcel Proust`s letters reflect such an eagerness to please and contain so many compliments, apologies, and expressions of politeness directed toward their addressees that they are borderline __________.
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One can only bemoan how the wonderfully rich collections of genuine fossil specimens seen of yore in museum displays are being replaced by the __________ talking plastic of so-called virtual reality.
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Unlike some models of mathematical tasks that distinguish between lower and higher cognitive demands, Carolyn Kieran`s model focuses only on the type of algebraic activity and thus is not ______ with regard to cognitive demand.
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All the scholars at the conference agree on the character of the general philosophical concepts under discussion, but this does not imply ________ with regard to details.
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The lobbyist argues that current environmental regulations must be (I)________ to prevent a recession, thus reviving the notion that economic progress and environmental protection are inherently (ii)________.
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The apparent promise of clean alternatives to environmentally harmful fossil fuels might actually (i)_______ fossil-fuel industries by framing energy problems not as a matter of excessive consumption but rather as a remediable lack of clean energy production, thus enticing citizens to (ii)______ the current energy consumption patterns from which fossil-fuel industries profit.
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Various factors complicate researchers` efforts to study time spent on housework. For example, housework may not stand out much in respondents` memories because it is so (i)_______ everyday life, and (ii)______ problems among survey subjects may thus be more severe than for other activities.
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The lack of (i)______ the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have expected, to (ii)______ poetry, but to a curious closure in which all poets and forms of poetry are (iii)_______ and alone, not even respected establishment poets, command excitement.
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Investigating physiological ______ is not how biologists typically study function and structure, but it is not entirely unreasonable--- if abnormalities in the lungs hinder breathing, then the lungs are very likely the organ required for breathing.
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Many great ghost stories remain________ about the existence of their phantoms, whereas others leave no doubt about their ghosts` reality.
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Although the courts have ______ an extremely flexible test for determining the admissibility of expert testimony, that does not mean that all experts will be allowed to testify.
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For more than 100 years, anarchism has been an embarrassing estranged sibling in the family of international radicalism, and its bad behavior had made it easy to ______ the awkward but important questions anarchism poses.
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Because the organization she inherited was remarkably _____,her first priority was the establishment of a vigorous fund-raising campaign.
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Governments frequently justify their attempts to ______material by claiming that such material must be kept strictly confidential for national security reasons when in fact the principal motive may be a desire to avoid political embarrassment.
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The reason geological activity on Mars is so (1)_____while on Earth it remains (2)______ is that Earth`s diameter is about twice the size of Mars`. Because Mars is smaller than Earth, it cooled faster, and therefore it lost the internal heat that drives tectonic activity.
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The archaeologist argues that botanists have often (i)_______ the role of human agency in the dispersal of floral species, pointing out that a range of plants that botanists formerly thought to be (ii)______were actually introduced to Australia by people in the recent and distant past.
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Among geophysicists there was considerably less (i)_________ the proposed environment measure than the (ii)_______ media accounts of the conference would suggest: the debate was often animated but never uncivil.
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Genetic researchers have recently suggested that our political learnings may be determined by our DNA, a view that tends to undermine our reflective self-flattery. We (i)___________ the idea that personal politics are entirely (ii)_______. The genetic explanation for ideology (iii)__________ our belief that we are persuaded only by rational arguments.
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