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Noun
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Whatever is left of the pavlova gets ground into a fine powder and used as a creative replacement for powdered sugar.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2025 -
The bulk of those losses occurred after Feb. 5, when Robin Washington — a longtime Salesforce board member and Gilead’s former CFO — was announced as the replacement for veteran finance chief Amy Weaver, who disclosed plans to depart last year but stayed on until the role was filled.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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After more than 15 months of continuous bombardment, deaths, injuries and displacement, children and families across Gaza are struggling to survive without adequate food, medicine or shelter.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ideas such as universal basic income (UBI) are being discussed as possible solutions to the displacement of human labor.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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There are more than a few scenes here where the substitution of stuntman for star is obvious.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2025
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Against Genoa, Inter were leading 1-0 when Bastoni was removed and the score remained the same, all of which brings us to this past weekend when once again the substitution of their best defender cost Inzaghi precious points.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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But the researchers found that under the right conditions, the gravitational waves triggered by the quantum foam can sometimes generate exactly the right kind of deformations in space.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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Rheology is a branch of physics that deals with the deformation and fluidity of matter.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
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Crews used telescopes with special filters that can detect air distortions like shock waves to capture the image.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2025
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Gomez said that the unedited transcript and video of the 60 Minutes segment makes clear there was no violation of the news distortion policy.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
18 Nov. 2024
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In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.—
Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2023
Noun
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Each era-ending crisis created a credible kind of drama: In real life, revolutions, reformations, migration, invasion, disasters, and so much else can reshape societies in fundamental ways.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The dissolution and subsequent reformation of safety teams at OpenAI demonstrates the ongoing debate about how best to approach AI safety governance.—
Sol Rashidi,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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The company’s robust performance indicators — including a strong revenue backlog, improving profitability, and double-digit subscription revenue growth — justify a potential upward revision of its valuation multiple.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Winnowing down the names and the number of people to be honored takes months, with the montage that’s played during the telecast undergoing multiple revisions in the weeks and even days leading up to the ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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