to abolish
/əˈbɑɫɪʃ/
verbto officially put an end to a law, activity, or system
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1. Abolish ICE as a good example.
2. Abolish all speech codes and all other forms of censorship.
3. The abolition of the manipular system also abolished the three distinct lines of infantry of the mid-republic.
4. It says abolish.
5. Most stock exchanges have abolished their trading floor.
to align
/əˈɫaɪn/
verbto agree with a group, idea, person, or organization and support it
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1. Oftentimes counterfeiters don't align the bill to the right Federal Reserve Bank, again, a key indicator of a counterfeit bill.
2. The health care segment, as a whole, obviously, aligns with that.
3. Perfectly aligned.
4. Your cars are aligned.
5. My chakras are aligned.
to allocate
/ˈæɫəˌkeɪt/
verbto give something particular to someone or to use something for a specific purpose
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1. Judy, the new law allocates $5 billion for farmers of color.
2. And so every society allocates labor one way or another.
3. Step 4, allocate time to interact with them, your stakeholders.
4. they allocate time energy and resources 4.
5. Investors with a higher risk tolerance might allocate a smaller amount to income-producing investments.
to authorize
/ˈɔθɝˌaɪz/
verbto give someone official permission to do something or to officially permit something
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1. A recent ballot measure in Oregon authorized the legal use of psilocybin by licensed providers.
2. Please authorize heart sensor.
3. This mission is authorized.
4. Who authorized the missile?
5. You authorized the missile!
to betray
/bɪˈtɹeɪ/
verbto be disloyal to a person, a group of people, or one's country by giving information about them to their enemy
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1. Maybe those conventional looks betray a deeper truth.
2. His all-over compositions betray a keen awareness of the edges.
3. A change in wind betrays her scent.
4. Both emission and absorption betray the atom.
5. "My countenance never yet betrayed my feelings."
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1. By 1990, CPUs breached the 1 million transistor count.
2. Defense contractors also have breach reporting requirements to the Department of Defense.
3. Violent protesters breached the walls.
4. For example, the air over the busiest airports regularly breaches the limits for nitrogen dioxide pollutants.
5. Finally, on the 25th, the battery breached the walls of Saint Louis.
to compensate
/ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt/
verbto pay someone for the work they have done
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1. We compensate donors for their time and their commitment to the program.
2. Other countries compensate citizens during lockdowns.
3. The rest of the plane compensated.
4. The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.
5. Those two things exactly compensate.
to conceal
/kənˈsiɫ/
verbto carefully cover or hide something or someone
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1. My hair conceals my elf ears.
2. "The picture conceals an extraordinary case of mistaken identity."
3. Forests now conceal the scars.
4. These differences conceal others.
5. Toilet brushes also conceal cameras.
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1. Energy is conserved.
2. Total energy is conserved, though.
3. The information is conserved.
4. Because of their low nutrition diets and sluggish metabolism, koalas must conserve their energy.
5. Conserve your energy.
to contemplate
/ˈkɑntəmˌpɫeɪt/
verbto think about something particular
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1. Seriously contemplating suicide.
2. The Homestead law contemplated continuous maintenance by a homesteader and his family of an actual home on the land to the exclusion of a home elsewhere.
3. - Contemplated.
4. Security laws contemplate clearing.
5. Just contemplate your problems.
to cultivate
/ˈkəɫtəˌveɪt/
verbto prepare land for raising crops or growing plants
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1. Cultivate friendships.
2. And cultivated meat another possibility.
3. And cultivated meat another possibility.
4. This space really cultivates individuality and just independent entrepreneurship.
5. Cultivate trust.
to devise
/dɪˈvaɪs/, /dɪˈvaɪz/
verbto design or invent something new or a new method of doing something particular after much thinking
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1. Instead, different species had to devise their own waste disposal methods.
2. In Belgium, an engineer devised an adapter for the masks on a 3D printing machine. -
3. They devised this tap code table.
4. So biochemists at Harvard Medical School and UC San Francisco devised a llama-free solution.
5. He devised an ingenious solution.
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1. We substituted one of the hydrogens.
2. He substitutes other sounds.
3. The flowing of body fluids substitutes human life.
4. The flowing of body fluids substitutes human life.
5. But the real backbone of cryptography was substituting signs.
to dictate
/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/, /dɪkˈteɪt/
verbto tell someone what to do or not do, in an authoritative way
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1. End block spacers dictates the length of the press for the skis.
2. Portion markings dictate the overall classification of a document.
3. And so, your judgments on size dictate your judgments about distance.
4. Ocean currents dictate the Earth's climate.
5. and your thoughts dictate your vibration.
to disclose
/dɪˈskɫoʊz/
verbto make something known to someone or the public, particularly when it was a secret at first
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1. Both examples disclose the amazing power of public speaking.
2. Ideally, all newsmakers are very clearly disclosing financial relationships and potential conflicts of interest.
3. The lens discloses a large number of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber.
4. The document also disclosed the location of Archie's birth at the Portland Hospital in Westminster, according to the outlet.
5. The spy riddle British National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, disclosed a riddle for their potential high-profile employees some time ago.
to distort
/dɪˈstɔɹt/
verbto change the shape or condition of something in a way that is no longer clear or natural
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1. Depression can really distort your perception about your future.
2. On the surface, the widespread victory, 303 electoral votes for JFK and 219 for Nixon, distorts the real picture.
3. The sound is distorted.
4. It distorts the image.
5. They distort the truth.
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1. Back in the day, Forever 21 embodied the American dream.
2. The Windrush generation embodies a pivotal moment in British history.
3. - Embody the spirit of the gamer.
4. The American grizzly embodies the spirit of America.
5. To many Chinese, this moment embodied their greatest shame.
to empower
/ɪmˈpaʊɝ/
verbto give someone the power or authorization to do something particular
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1. No doubt the new technologies will empower the human collective.
2. This place is empowering.
3. Empowering beliefs.
4. They both empower our promise and our peril.
5. The consumer is empowered.
to entitle
/ɛnˈtaɪtəɫ/, /ɪnˈtaɪtəɫ/
verb(often passive) to give someone the legal right to have or do something particular
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1. A client is entitled to zealous advocacy.
2. Entitled "a day for poetry and song."
3. "Trump is entitled to full legal fees."
4. The last article is entitled, "No New Frontiers."
5. What is this entitle? -
to extract
/ˈɛkˌstɹækt/, /ɪkˈstɹækt/
verbto take something out from something else, particularly when it is not easy to do
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1. The other way is extracting lithium from salt brine.
2. But your measurement only extracts a little bit of information.
3. Equinor extracts natural gas on a peninsula near Hammerfest, the northernmost city in Europe.
4. Their expert hands carefully extract the tiny larvae.
5. Their expert hands carefully extract the tiny larvae.
to instruct
/ˌɪnˈstɹəkt/
verbto tell someone to do something, particularly in an official manner
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1. Johnson instructed his old friend.
2. I'm instructed.
3. - Instruct us!
4. These teachers also instruct students on weight training, flexibility, aerobics, and other workout styles, often developing programs for people with special needs or goals.
5. First, to instruct a younger guy.
to loom
/ˈɫum/
verbto appear as a large shape that is unclear, particularly in a manner that is threatening
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1. The midterms were looming.
2. The sad building loomed enormous.
3. The Assyrian threat loomed large.
4. A huge financial loss looms.
5. The specter of mass starvation loomed.
to outrage
/ˈaʊˌtɹeɪdʒ/
verbto cause someone to become extremely angry or shocked
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1. Instead, it created outrage.
2. Outrage was in no short supply.
3. This photo from an African trophy hunt has sparked outrage across the country.
4. My shock quickly turned to outrage.
5. This caused outrage.
to reassure
/ˌɹiəˈʃʊɹ/
verbto do or say something to make someone stop worrying or less afraid
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1. A mother calmly reassures her terrified child that the robots are not looking for her.
2. Reassure customers you will send only valuable email.
3. Penti reassures the youngsters.
4. Pinti reassures the youngsters.
5. Reassure your partner.
to tolerate
/ˈtɑɫɝˌeɪt/
verbto not oppose or prohibit something one does not like or agree with
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1. My product can tolerate the temperature from minus 20 to 100 degree.
2. The Hebrew term can tolerate both meanings.
3. Can you tolerate this type of chemotherapy?
4. Most people can only tolerate one or two, maybe three.
5. Most summer bulbs can??t tolerate freezes, so plant them after the last expected frost in your area.
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1. - Those bozos overlook the importance of cardio.
2. The window overlooks my daughter's school playground.
3. Overlooking the edge of the earth.
4. So the patio overlooks the property and the river.
5. The comic books, the educators overlooked something.
to undermine
/ˈəndɝˌmaɪn/
verbto gradually decrease the effectiveness, confidence, or power of something or someone
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1. So the dissidents and protesters and so forth are undermining national security.
2. Randomness for Arp undermined conventional notions of authorship.
3. The third century crisis undermines this elite.
4. The denial of due process on campus actually undermines liberal education.
5. Taiwan's liberal democratic values completely undermine China's own hardline nationalistic values.
to vow
/ˈvaʊ/
verbto make a solemn promise to do or not do something particular
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1. They make vows.
2. And other citizens, too, make that vow.
3. 'vow, vow, vow, vow, vow, vow'.
4. - And vows?
5. The following day, the couple exchanged vows once more in a Hindu ceremony.
to resurface
/ɹiˈsɝfəs/
verbto once again become noticeable, significant, or problematic
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1. - Resurface cards can be?
2. Step one, resurface options.
3. And in the wake of Porter's resignation, this photo of a group of key Trump aides from a July 2017 event has resurfaced.
4. Resurface only to breathe.
5. And that money resurfaced later, at later times.
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1. Astonished the roofs and gutters.
2. The blindness though astonished me.
3. The blindness though astonished me.
4. New parents are astonished by the rapidity of this learning.
5. - I'm astonished.
to rehash
/ɹiˈhæʃ/
verbto present something old or already used in a slightly different way or with minor alterations, often without adding anything new.
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1. Larry David-- That same old title rehashed again.
2. You're rehashing something, bringing it up again.
3. Don't rehash your resume.
4. Tip number four - Don't rehash your resume and then finally, tip number five - structure your cover letter appropriately.
5. Tip number three, don't rehash.
to sabotage
/ˈsæbəˌtɑʒ/
verbto intentionally damage, destroy, or undermine something, especially for personal gain or as an act of protest or revenge
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1. Would Simone sabotage the first mission?
2. Sooner or later, though, most incivil people sabotage their success.
3. Poor email etiquette can actually sabotage your professional career
4. Sooner or later, though, most uncivil people sabotage their success.
5. But is sabotage even likely?
