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Among some demographic groups, the Internet is _____________: almost everybody who wants Internet access has it.
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The reliable production of usable energy through the controlled fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium remains an elusive dream: even the most ardent efforts to achieve it have thus far been _____________.
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The television network seems to regard its longest-running comedy show as _____________, keeping it in the schedule even as the humor it churns out is notoriously hit-or-miss.
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In his writings on Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus is admirably _____________: he knows that not to hold Dylan to the highest possible standard is to condescend to him.
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For many in the room, the idea of coming to the assistance of a rival was more than unpleasant: it was _____________.
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The newspapers described the writer as a (i) _____________, but she was really quite (ii) _____________once you met her in person.
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Researchers note that wolves` otherwise strongly hierarchical society is marked by occasional displays of populist (i) _____________ : if a pack leader proves a too-snappish tyrant, subordinate wolves will (ii) _____________ the top cur.
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An innovative musician, accompanist extraordinaire, and protomodern hipster, Lester Young(1909-1959 ) remains a (i) _____________ in the jazz firmament. Some of the reasons are obvious: although he dressed with conspicuous cool, he chose an artistic trajectory that seemed calculated to (ii) _____________ the spotlight—his best work was in the bands o other musicians, such as Billie Holiday and Count Basie, rather than at the front of his own. Moreover, he was shy, subtle, and sensitive—traits not usually associated with great (iii) _____________ .
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Although it is quite probable that many small asteroids in the solar system's asteroid belt have (i) _____________, the total mass of these objects cannot be (ii) _____________, since the combined gravitational pull of all known asteroids is (iii) ______ to fully account for the asteroid belt's effect on the motion of nearby planets such as Mars.
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Even though Our Lady of the Forest achieves clinical evenhandedness in depicting the most depressing members of a small logging town, the novel lacks a single likable character and too often runs aground on _____________ writing.
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The auditors are relying on the failing bank to make changes that it has steadfastly resisted for years and even now does not seem _____________ to carry out.
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Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not _____________ interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
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The _____________ of criteria for determining what is meant by "balance" and whether it is beneficial makes it difficult to evaluate claims that probiotics promote a healthy balance of microorganisms in the body.
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The economist argued that however much the government might trumpet the value of _____________ , it had been as bold as any other in its spending programs.
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Not all Native American languages have lexical classes corresponding to those of other languages: many have no adjectival category, and some have even brought the ________ of nouns and verbs into question.
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Because human emotions are behavioral complexes, they presumably took a very long time to develop. Therefore, a complete lack of any (i) _____________ human emotions in ancestral species is (ii) _____________.
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While it would be hard to categorize her as a (i) _____________ liberal, the governor appears to have ceded some of her carefully cultivated reputation as (ii) _____________ and is now more in line with the liberal wing of her party.
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Reviews written by music critic and composer Stephenson were hardly (i) _____________: musicians who performed his music could count on sympathetic coverage, while those who ignored him were held to (ii) _____________ standard.
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Climate change is posited to be a frequent factor in mass extinctions by some scientists who speculate that minor climate shifts can trigger a catastrophic cascade of effects. Although this pattern is (i) _____________ in that it confirm warnings about our own possibly dire future, it is also somehow (ii) _____________, as it sets forth a context for today's turbulent weather as (iii) _____________ in a natural, cyclical process.
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The danger of isolation appears often in Anishinaabe stories but is nowhere more_______than in the Cree and Ojibwa tales about the Windigo, a terrifying ice monster that is literally a lost soul.
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