How To Use Extraordinarily In A Sentence
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The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War.
Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
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There are synthesizers that use frequency modulation and other algorithms to generate extraordinarily rich and complex sounds.
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In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
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It also referred to what it called "extraordinarily challenging world-wide economic conditions" and higher raw material prices.
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The issues involved are extraordinarily difficult and their resolution is complicated.
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The honey seems extraordinarily expensive, but then sweetness was a prerogative of the rich until the eighteenth century.
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Well, the previous day I'd taken it on a hard lap of the extraordinarily beautiful Laguna Seca raceway, which, because it's the curliest track in North America, is regarded by racing drivers all over the world as one of the greats.
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He was known as a consummate and extraordinarily discreet bureaucrat, but before the Bay of Pigs fiasco he had done little for the new administration and had no real sense of what his fate would be in the new regime.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office
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This is an extraordinarily bad set of cards we have dealt ourselves... you just make the best of a bad job.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fairness to SWT, it must be extraordinarily difficult to compile a timetable for the network which will please everybody.
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To walk the Naga Hills with Kevin is to understand a mind and a community that is extraordinarily attuned to the environment in which they thrive, and which has as its fundament, the concept that we know and call as sustainability.
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And for President Bushmaster — a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match ‘em bam-for-BAM!) — to suggest it was “disgusting” is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.
Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
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During the course of this extraordinarily long movie, my children grew up, left home and had children of their own, Sam, in particular, excelling himself with a successful legal practice aimed at weeding out fraudulent accident claims.
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Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
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The human mind remains extraordinarily difficult to understand.
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Well, the only thing is he is so extraordinarily responsive and sensitive to any move that I make that it's uncanny.
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Her eyes were extraordinarily blue and her face seemed shrouded in mist.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact.
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I had a terrible head and was extraordinarily drunk.
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Some governments manipulate their figures in extraordinarily blatant ways.
The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics
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Worse still, they are predicting an extraordinarily sluggish recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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This cow, from the broad horned Norfolk breed and sired by a bull of the Bakewell breed, was considered extraordinarily fine and became known as ‘The Westbrook Heifer.’
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‘Un Secret, a movie about ordinary Jewish people in extraordinarily savage times, is a current success with French moviegoers, and Claude Miller, who adapted the film from Philippe Grimbert’s eponymous novel, is surprised.
Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January
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Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem.
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Extraordinarily, the favourites for the title lie at the bottom of the table.
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I remember Martin loaning me a copy of The White Goddess, that first edition with the version of the dedicatory poem which I really liked extraordinarily.
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She is an extraordinarily valuable and brilliant musician; solo recitals now are almost unknown.
Times, Sunday Times
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If high politics often seems strangely apolitical, everyday life is extraordinarily politicised.
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He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health.
Henry’s Demons
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It was also necessary to learn how to program incredibly efficiently and write extraordinarily tight code.
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For example, except in extraordinarily rare cases, authors never get more than 15%; and that fifteen percent comes out of Macmillan's share, which is roughly 52% of the list price.
Why Amazon and Some Readers Are Wrong « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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With the loyalty of key military units in question, that could prove an extraordinarily difficult task.
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The tears of a self-confessed stoic will always grab the headlines, but it should be noted that this match was extraordinarily absorbing, with Rezaï producing shots of unplayable depth.
Victorious Serena Fails to Ward Off Tears
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Lithium is extraordinarily soft for a metal with a rating of 0.6 on the Mohs scale, softer even than talc, whose Mohs rating is 1.
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But it is the structure of the song that seems, still, so extraordinarily ambitious for a musician in his early twenties.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were extraordinarily lucky.
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The school has proven extraordinarily influential in Hollywood, and includes many of the town's senior executives and creatives among its alumni.
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From a relatively quiet country upbringing, an extraordinarily gregarious and confident person emerged.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hot thermal pools are fringed by extraordinarily colourful mineral deposits, while sulphurous steam percolates all around.
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It can be extraordinarily rewarding emotionally and extraordinarily unrewarding financially, which is fine, as long as we survive.
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What makes a manager's job so extraordinarily difficult is that, in order to motivate and keep productive any given staff member, he or she has to tailor-make everything they do with and for that person in such a way that it perfectly fits that person's entirely unique emotional, psychological, and intellectual needs.
John Shore: 10 Mistakes Even Good Managers Make
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A night on the town fuses American hip hop with extraordinarily loud reggae and Jamaican dancehall.
The Sun
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This is an extraordinarily unusual kind of pasta dish named spaghetti alla crema con alghe, or spaghetti with cream and liver.
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The human body and brain are extraordinarily complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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Donald was also extraordinarily good with children and enjoyed their company.
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Bringing the Ex was extraordinarily tacky, but narrowly/technically legal; her not warning you in the first place was especially grody.
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In a way, Benjamin mapped out the extraordinarily rich prerequisite for a very basic goal: knowing what you're talking about. posted by Matthew @ 2: 25 PM
"History is an angel being blown backwards into the future"
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She was heiress to a large fortune, a beautiful estate in the vale of Aylesbury and an extraordinarily fine collection of works of art which her father housed at Mentmore.
Rothschild Women.
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Modern shrubs grow on their own roots and are not only extraordinarily floriferous but very winter hardy.
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Indeed, his case studies of the Yakima and the Pima Indians provide extraordinarily vivid examples of the effects reclamation had on local power relations.
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While base 60 seems like the creation of an extraordinarily fertile imagination, sexagesimal has historical pedigree.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock.
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The slinker nervous system is an extraordinarily well-developed telepathic transceiver," Erannath said.
The Day Of Their Return
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Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.
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The man told us that in that valley there had been a particularly malignant devil, and that this extraordinarily big chorten had been built in order to keep him in subjection.
The Mount Everest Expedition
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His fingers are extraordinarily nimble.
Times, Sunday Times
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He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.
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The normally reserved defense secretary heaped praise on Karzai for reacting in "an extraordinarily statesmanlike way," adding, "Frankly, I think the American government will not forget this kind of statesmanlike response.
Defense Secretary Gates: Progress in Afghan war has 'exceeded my expectations'
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To attempt to provide low-impact, low-maintenance, fuel-efficient accommodation in such a place is an extraordinarily brave, and bold, undertaking.
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If you haven't seen it before now take a trip over to the website of Telefís Éireann - as we culchies call it - and marvel at how John Waters somehow remains extraordinarily calm amidst Dunphy's tears and Harris's tales of his cancer treatment also intriguing to hear Senator Eoghan hark back to his Stickie days by making reference to Lenin and his remarks on "excitative terror".
Archive 2009-02-01
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As to what you called bits of green glass, they are neither more nor less than extraordinarily fine emeralds; I should say that the smallest of them must be worth more dollars than you could carry at a single load.
The Aztec Treasure-House
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But it is the structure of the song that seems, still, so extraordinarily ambitious for a musician in his early twenties.
Times, Sunday Times
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The number of monuments left by the Mound Builders is extraordinarily great.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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But the low footfall and unpampered overgrowth meant squirrels are both numerous and extraordinarily bold.
Marie Louise Gardens: The "Now" Picture
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The Council would have to be extraordinarily inept if it were not to take heed of this overwhelming reaction to the move.
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Japan, despite its post-war success, is still extraordinarily insular nation, even compared to China and Korea; this is partially a result of the inward-looking mentality fostered by a national policy whose external aspect is essentially dictated by the American protectorship.
Matthew Yglesias » Bush and Asia
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There is one odd similarity between medical and entomological eponyms: an extraordinarily high proportion of eponymous body parts seem to be concentrated in reproductive organs.
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The abbot, neither overawed by the strength nor by the quantity of the potion, took it off with what he himself would have called a feeling of solace and pleasance, and his voice became much more composed; he signified himself as comforted extraordinarily by the medicine, and willing to proceed to answer any questions which could be put to him by his gallant young friend.
Castle Dangerous
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Furthermore, immune responses to tubercle bacilli are extraordinarily complicated.
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Yet out of this inauspicious premise, director Peter Hedges (who also scripted About a Boy and What's Eating Gilbert Grape) has created an extraordinarily fresh and universal film.
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This is a remarkable book, richly detailed and extraordinarily moving.
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It is immensely clever, perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and, most importantly, extraordinarily brilliant.
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For one thing, digital photographs hold extraordinarily large amounts of data.
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I might be extraordinarily hen-pecked for someone in just his fifth year of marriage, but there are limits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soil here is extraordinarily thin, sandy, and well-drained owing to highly vertical relief and millennia of rainwater surface denudation.
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His features were smoothly regular and extraordinarily placid, as if he surveyed the world from a lofty perch, far removed from any of its foibles and cares.
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But Cameron said it was important to remember that governments faced what he described as an extraordinarily difficult time.
David Cameron: UK lost some 'moral authority' after 9/11
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The celebrated philosophical essays ( "The Myth of Sisyphus," The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone.
There's Something Wrong with Sven
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She was extraordinarily supportive when I went through a bad patch some years back.
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This is the bit of public life that is extraordinarily efficient and extraordinarily effective.
Times, Sunday Times
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The human body and brain are extraordinarily complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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Relative to CIDI engines, HCCI engines have extraordinarily lower emissions of PM and NOx and can offer more power as high as CIDI engines with the dilute homogeneous air and fuel mixture.
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The result is an extraordinarily eclectic mixture that has drawn applause but also raised a few eyebrows.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something extraordinarily uplifting in the notion of consecrating one's talents to the State.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919
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Ancient Micmac folklore suggested that the extraordinarily high tides in the Bay of Fundy were caused by a mighty whale that splashed its tail into the water with such a force that the water continues to slosh back and forth from the impact, even to this day.
Atlantic Ocean
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For the part of the inventory that most urgently needs immediate expansion, the A-10 and the close support mission, hundreds of airframes now sitting in the "boneyard" can and should be refurbished -- at extraordinarily modest cost.
Winslow T. Wheeler: What Now, Icarus? Is Western Combat Aviation Falling Out of the Sky?
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how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is
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a home life that has been extraordinarily squally
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In particular, "Chocolate Wars" follows the history of the British Cadbury chocolate company, owned by a couple of extraordinarily decent and virtuous Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, who disdained the callous and ruthless business practices of many of their Victorian rivals, put the welfare of their workers first and developed a series of marvelous chocolate products as well.
Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See
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He had huge shoulders and a broad back which tapered to an extraordinarily small waist.
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Despite the precarious position of the oil market, financial markets remain extraordinarily sanguine in regard to the prospects of another major oil shock.
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His students from his time at Manchester University remember his lectures as extraordinarily lucid.
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They're halfway between a cookie and a chocolate truffle with an extraordinarily pure bittersweet chocolate flavor.
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Enya is extraordinarily beautiful, but there seems little point in asking her about love affairs anymore.
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You do not become an extraordinarily successful magazine publisher without a fine business sense and keen eye for spotting trends.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was extraordinarily mistrustful of District Attorney Rice ' s sudden change from obdurate obstructer to newfound champion of justice " during her campaign, said Friedman attorney Ron Kuby .
Review Slated for Abuse Case
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Despite the theoretical orderliness of the hierarchy, extraordinarily complex and difficult relationships have evolved within many of the ministries.
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This significant issue - the unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence - has been extraordinarily resistant to correctives.
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It looks extraordinarily brooding: the rock-and-steel architecture, scrawled with foul-mouthed inmate graffiti, is both threatening and lovely.
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He is extraordinarily gifted from a physical point of view in his endurance and aerobic capacity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Masquerades, extraordinarily popular entertainments in the eighteenth century, were morally suspect events.
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The males, said to be polygamists, are extraordinarily bold and pugnacious, whilst the females are quite pacific.
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That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
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Her eyes were extraordinarily blue and her face seemed shrouded in mist.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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His fingers are extraordinarily nimble.
Times, Sunday Times
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What if we have concluded that Johnson's strengths as a writer don't lie in detailing the "extraordinarily rich and complex inner lives" of his characters?
Book Reviewing
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Even after the trauma of the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, this extraordinarily unobservant system creaked on.
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That went down extraordinarily badly with people across the country.
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I will only make one observation - the Chinese government has been extraordinarily maladroit over the past six months.
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There's something extraordinarily unique and genuine in those ethereal brownies that really appeals to me. Fantastic songs, big heart, great attitude, Never-Never-Land meeting personal diary.
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She rested comfortably in the lotus position (no trick, given her extraordinarily limber body) and seemed to be quite preoccupied.
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Mothers feel passionately about their children and about mothering, which they see as unique and extraordinarily important work.
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For years physicists have wondered how a crumpled sheet can be so extraordinarily rigid.
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This is an extraordinarily complex topic that has its roots in history, the global economy, the failure of diplomacy and the psychologies of the people involved.
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Quite extraordinarily, even in the first phase of Lunch-time Openings, some Branches were expected to open without any additional staff.
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Some three weeks later, he returned, explaining that the extraordinarily efficient card index in the galactic section of the library had enabled him to locate the galaxy as number QX 321, 762.
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I think what we might call the mystical strain in Christianity has always been extraordinarily important to me, and I think that's probably why this life suits me because I suspect I am probably a born celibate.
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The Mexican capital's population has grown extraordinarily over the past six decades.
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Mr. Archer, whose criticism of this play is extraordinarily brilliant, does his best to extenuate the stiffness of it.
Henrik Ibsen
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Master Doctor, seeing himselfe to bee in such an abhominable stinking place, laboured with all his utmost endevour, to get himself released thence: but the more he contended and strove for getting forth, he plunged himselfe the further in, being most pitifully myred from head to foot, sighing and sorrowing extraordinarily, because much of the foule water entred in at his mouth.
The Decameron
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That proved to me that the hypnotic gastric band was extraordinarily effective.
The Sun
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Hard-nosed deals are coupled with extraordinarily good staff relationships.
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But it remains extraordinarily rare for a sitting governor to risk taking a position of moral leadership on the deeply divisive issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good.
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was the founder of American pragmatism (later called by Peirce “pragmaticism” in order to differentiate his views from others being labelled “pragmatism”), a theorist of logic, language, communication, and the general theory of signs (which was often called by Peirce “semeiotic”), an extraordinarily prolific mathematical logician and general mathematician, and a developer of an evolutionary, psycho-physically monistic metaphysical system.
Nobody Knows Nothing
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But it remains extraordinarily rare for a sitting governor to risk taking a position of moral leadership on the deeply divisive issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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The day had been extraordinarily costly for both sides.
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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which reviews patent validity, is extraordinarily pro-patent, the number of issued patents has grown steadily in recent decades.
Becker-Posner on Drug Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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What I am saying is that if our personal information - some of it extraordinarily sensitive - is archived in corporate or government databases and protected only by the weak shield of the law, it's vulnerable to federal snoops.
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They have responded extraordinarily and we feel delighted that our procedures have worked.
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The morning my review ran, I got a call from an agent friend who is cultivated, extraordinarily smart and superbly acerb.
When Words Fail
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In Astaire's extraordinarily complex ‘Bojangles of Harlem,’ he dances by himself, with a proliferation of chorines, and finally with three massive rear-projection shadows of himself.
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And it really has been, I think, an extraordinarily kind of deft management, not only of the operation of the war, but the politics of it back home.
CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2001
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Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact.
Times, Sunday Times
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He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.
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A night on the town fuses American hip hop with extraordinarily loud reggae and Jamaican dancehall.
The Sun
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Equipment failure in rock climbing and mountaineering is extraordinarily rare.
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Your novels tend to center on ordinary people who find themselves trapped in extraordinarily difficult situations, and clearly that is true of this book as well.
A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast
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He seemed 100% man, gentle and intuitive and poetic and sensitive but also extraordinarily strong and manly.
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Edward was an extraordinarily tall, powerful and imposing figure robed in majesty.
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Furthermore, immune responses to tubercle bacilli are extraordinarily complicated.
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Some attacks were extraordinarily venomous.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Soon circumstances changed extraordinarily.
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Kepesh is cold, even in his pleasures; he is extraordinarily cerebral for a sensualist.
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Extraordinarily fine acanthite specimens have been found in several of Mexico's major silver mining districts.
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Particular highlights include an extraordinarily beautiful large French panel, c.1500 depicting Charles VIII, and an extremely rare French thirteenth-century roundel depicting the execution of John the Baptist.
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The mahoe is an extraordinarily healthy tree with few problems.
Chapter 5
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In time trouble this is extraordinarily ambitious.
Times, Sunday Times
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His intuition, the problems he set himself, and the solutions that he found, all exhibit something extraordinarily ingenious, something original in an uncontrived way.
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But they have responded extraordinarily and we feel chuffed that our procedures have worked.
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The lecture is extraordinarily ambitious.
Times, Sunday Times
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TL;DR: Plenty of things can depressurize an aircraft, and hitting an aircraft in flight is extraordinarily implausible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » California Court of Appeal Upholds Ban on .50-Caliber Rifles Against Second Amendment Challenge:
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As in the case of all algae, cells below a minimum size (about a mm or so) are effectively neutrally buoyant, which would have been extraordinarily important, as they would otherwise sink into the sub-photic zone and die.
Ancient Predator Revealed!
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This, obviously, will come either on the heels of or in the aftermath of a vote in the House on MFN, which is extraordinarily important to Hong Kong's stability and continued autonomy, which is why all of the leaders from Hong Kong, from every end of the spectrum have supported extension of normal trading benefits.
Berger Tarullo And Rubin Briefing On Denver Summit
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And though they were often derided as long-haired layabouts, they actually worked extraordinarily hard to conquer new territories and win over new audiences.
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But, uh, is there some escape clause here so that people can observe that Obama really is an extraordinarily gifted orator without sounding like jerks?
Songs of Experience
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However, aortic dissection associated with vasculitis of the vasa vasorum in SLE is extraordinarily rare.
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Though his book is not based on extensive archival research, it does rest upon 30 years of reflection and synthesis by an extraordinarily bright and well-read military historian.
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extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations
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We operate today in an extraordinarily unsettled financial environment dominated by leveraged speculation and U.S. foreign liabilities of unprecedented amounts.
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All foretoes are long and thin, but the third is extraordinarily so due to an especially elongated metacarpal.
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While many scholars focus on the incorporation of the globe into the modern world system, a few, such as Thomas Hall, call for research on "precapitalist" (that is, premodern) incorporations. 13 The fact that the Chinese were extraordinarily successful as an imperial power in East Asia and Southeast Asia will provide a better understanding of precapitalist incorporations in world history.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Making a life insurance narrative scintillating as well as informative is, at the very least, a challenge, yet this author succeeds extraordinarily well on both scores.
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It's an extraordinarily powerful and potent image.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the four-ball format was unwieldy and led to extraordinarily long rounds of five hours or more.
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You said before - extraordinarily, I thought - that the price of water was likely to go up.
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The Louvre received an extraordinarily rich array of material from this region, most of which has never before been loaned.
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What an extraordinarily explicit statement of scientific reductionism!
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She seems extraordinarily at home in full military greatcoat and beret.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are, however, extraordinarily difficult to discipline, incredibly fractious.
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So far he owes his survival to an extraordinarily thick political hide, which none of his detractors had previously credited him for.
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The book is packed with little gems of wit and wisdom which often have nothing to do with English usage, but which disclose an extraordinarily lively and retentive intelligence, and make the book a pleasure to read.
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Ryle drove fast when he could, but he found the journey back to London extraordinarily frustrating.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The campaign, coinciding with an unsurpassed mood of patriotism throughout the country, was extraordinarily successful.
The Sun
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We’ll be extraordinarily lucky if bad talking on teevee is the worst thing that happens.
While He’s Washing, Watch Him | ATTACKERMAN
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Every normal human being acquires a natural language and that language is extraordinarily similar to that of the surrounding group.
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Structured finance is extraordinarily flexible and, by its very nature, compliant to the wants and needs of the marketplace.
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When describing performances, critics often use the word 'brave' as a euphemism for 'naked', and Fassbender and Mulligan are extraordinarily brave here in both senses of the word.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They also encouraged their talented daughter in the studies that would take her to St Hilda's in Oxford and along an extraordinarily circuitous and unorthodox route from Latin and Greek through physiology to neurochemistry.
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The unreserved smile completely altered his finely chiseled features and made him extraordinarily handsome.
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A beautiful and talented actress, Dorrie ends up in a psychiatric ward, a narrative which seems extraordinarily prescient.
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She is an extraordinarily valuable and brilliant musician; solo recitals now are almost unknown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Levi was a survivor of Auschwitz, and wrote extraordinarily about that experience.
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But that's no excuse for overruling a law that not only is legitimate, but also extraordinarily popular.
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Her only friend in this heartless, Ivy League town is a lovelorn manicurist who has problems of her own, yet takes pity on the extraordinarily rich Bel-Air girl.
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It was true Lily was extraordinarily prim and proper when she started going to Alex's school.
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The simplest water supply and storage systems can be extraordinarily complex.
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The Frogmouths derive the name due to the extraordinarily large gape and the small grey flap on the tongue.
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Haggis, neeps and tatties with whisky sauce is perhaps a tad dry and extraordinarily hefty, served up in a slab-like nut roast, but decent enough.
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He is extraordinarily gifted from a physical point of view in his endurance and aerobic capacity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
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Lots of people have called our response to the Tsunami ‘extraordinarily generous’ but its only really extraordinary when compared with the usual parsimoniousness on foreign aid.
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When I finally rise from my pit of non-slumber, I am extraordinarily positive - despite aching in every limb and feeling like my eyelids are being forced down by lead-weighted pulleys.
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Extraordinarily, the staff seemed to understand his primeval form of communication.
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Great prostrate silicified trunks of trees, embedded in a conglomerate, were extraordinarily numerous.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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On a day, Massetto having laboured somewhat extraordinarily, lay downe to rest himselfe awhile under the trees, and two delicate yong Nunnes, walking there to take the aire, drew neere to the place where he dissembled sleeping; and both of them observing his comelinesse of person, began to pitty the poverty of his condition; but much more the misery of his great defectes.
The Decameron
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The uneasy stability of the bipolar world from 1945 to 1989 has been replaced by an extraordinarily volatile international system.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil.
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No wonder the courtroom cheered yesterday as the 71-year-old conman was sentenced to 150 years in jail, or that judge Denny Chin described his crimes as "extraordinarily evil".
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This system was subverted by his brother John when he succeeded to the throne in 1199, and extraordinarily repressive measures were set in motion to extort money from them.
