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One object of examining past medical practices is to identify useful knowledge amid its now outmoded trappings; the alternative is to let such knowledge _____________ along with the discredited theories with which it was associated.
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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with _____________ wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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The late nineteenth century saw a shift in the production of African American history writing as works by _____________ authors came to be outnumbered by the publications of professional African American academics.
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.Given that in human prehistory social life was organized in close-knit communities, early forms of economic exchange were probably (i) _____________ other social relations; however, with trade taking place across ever greater geographic distances, there is evidence that economic and social networks became increasingly (ii) _____________.
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The tape recorder is to blame for the (i) _____________ of the interview and has thus had a (ii)_____________ effect on journalism. The possibility of verbatim reproduction has fostered the illusion that the voice of truth is that of the interviewee rather than the more critically detached voice belonging to the journalist, Maybe journalists should return to the lowly notebook, which allows them to (iii)_____________ while listening, relegating the tape recorder to its real role of invaluable witness.
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Finally, here is a biography of the musical theater colossus Stephen Sondheim that is informative and perceptive rather than a plodding and-then-he-wrote chronology or a fan's outpouring of unvarnished _____________.
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Paradoxically, the 1980s creations of avant-garde desiqners such as Rei Kawakubo, defined by their divergence from traditional Japanese fashions, came to be seen as_____________ Japanese garments.
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The snow-covered surface of the lake presents a reassuring illusion of _____________, but beneath the snow the ice is riven with treacherous cracks.
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Central control of the country's power grid is difficult because of the _____________ of the electricity industry-it is made up of hundreds of local networks with separate owners.
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The songwriter' s (i) _____________ nature can lead her audiences to forget that her songs are about painful experiences just as often as they are about (ii) ______________ ones.
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We have been so persuaded that (i) _____________ and disgraceful conduct go together that we find it difficult to believe that an affable man such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can be (ii) _____________ of both goodness and superior ability. Indeed, appalling conduct is sometimes itself (iii) _____________ the greatest talent.
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The chancellor once openly admired the relatively laissez-faire economic recipes of Britain and the United States but now defends the German way, in which she sees the free market's sometimes destructive vicissitudes being _____________ by consensus-building politics and a generous welfare state.
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Partisans of literary realism sometimes think that because fantastical narratives do not abide by the laws of reality, they _____________ all rules, though, in fact, the logic of fairy tales is often relentlessly rigorous.
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It can be a daunting task to plunge into the disparate and extensive data sets on the carnivores and _____________ meaningful patterns from their extraordinary morphological, behavioral, and ecological diversity.
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Oral traditions are (i) _____________ nearly everywhere, and in nonliterate societies they do not (ii) _____________ at their first exposure to the written word. Despite Goody's contention that a kind of literacy line cuts through history, dividing oral from print cultures, it seems that traditional tale-telling can (iii) _____________ long after a print culture is established.
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Judge Jones brought some welcome levity to the often tense, though sometimes_____________, proceedings.
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The concept of replicability begins with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth is not _____________: researchers who make daims must allow others to test those claims.
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Gravity is the _____________ of the four fundamental forces existing in nature, the others being the electromagnetic force, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, yet over large distances it is gravity that dominates.
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Epitomizing the (i) _____________ of many of life's pleasures, the exquisite Japanese sweets known as jornamagashi cannot be (ii) _____________, but rather, doomed by their hizh moisture content, must be eaten at once.
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In her book, Schmidt (i) _____________ confidence in her opinions. She is excessively (ii) _____________ authorities, even when gently rejecting their views. lt is always a pleasure to encounter the lucid, astute prose of academics from the past, but this book is (iii) _____________ a surplus of pedestrian quotations from the less notable.
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