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as in to suffice
to be fitting or proper that outfit just won't do for the opera

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as in to serve
to be enough even half of that amount of sugar will do

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See a Live Theater Production When live arts top your list of things to do, Burnsville's Parkway Playhouse is the perfect fit. Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 28 June 2025 The reason for Atlanta’s acidic soil as compared to L.A.’s alkaline soil has to do with the amount of rainfall in these two cities. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 June 2025 Apps which are meant to make users safer and more secure but are doing the very opposite. Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025 While the audience members could still speak on the item about to be deferred, Rodriguez said, doing so would mean the public wouldn’t have the chance to address commissioners if the item ever came up for an actual vote at a future meeting. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for do
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  • But unlike the post-Enron era when adding one qualified financial expert sufficed, the AI revolution demands something far more radical: every director must become AI literate, or risk becoming a liability in the intelligence age.
    Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Several roster holes to fill and if a long term option isn't ideal then a short term,stop gap move may suffice.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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  • The 10-screen theater at the Village at San Antonio Center is decorated with robot toys, a wall of movie posters featuring robots and even has Dumbots, an upstairs lounge with a name inspired by some of the less-intelligent bots in movie history.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 21 June 2025
  • The nymphs look like large black ticks decorated with white spots.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 18 June 2025
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  • These symptoms weren’t only tied to how close someone was to the event but were strongly influenced by personal factors like pre-existing mental health issues and the coping strategies used in the early aftermath.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • As couples become closer through a shared reality, researchers also observed a greater sense of meaning in life, where individuals have a strong feeling of purpose, which research indicates can lead to better coping, greater happiness, and improved health outcomes.
    Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 18 June 2025
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  • After a sit-down interview with Bobbie Thomas, Harlow was surprised by Jenna Bush Hager with video messages from three women with vitiligo, an autoimmune condition that causes patches of skin to lose pigment.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • The system works by stopping micro-inflammation, which disrupts the hair’s growth cycle, stopping new growth in its tracks and is easily caused by hormones, stress and genetic disposition.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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  • But as these systems gained the ability to imitate reasoning, planning, and decision-making among options, emergent behaviors began raising red flags.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Some fireworks transcend the standard pops and booms to imitate a non-fiery object.
    Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
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  • This is the base of solid, simple rules that the company needs in order to proceed carefully and safely in the AI environment, respecting the company’s needs for security and data privacy.
    Kathleen Hurley, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Some of those bombers flew west into the Pacific as a decoy, while seven others proceeded east to Iran with minimal communication, Caine said.
    Katelyn Ferral, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
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  • Most American metropolises perform well in the report’s measure of disposable income, particularly San Francisco (No. 3), Boston (No. 7), and Chicago (No. 8).
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • Capaldi has been slowly testing the waters of a comeback, performing a run of warm-up shows in Scotland as a guest of Tom Walker’s charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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  • President Donald Trump's rapid pullback of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans at least $18 billion in higher fees and lost compensation for consumers allegedly cheated by major companies, according to an analysis released Tuesday by two organizations.
    Douglas Gillison, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • But they didn’t get cheated this spring, not with three rousing blasts from the past: Against the Pistons, against the Celtics, against the Pacers.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025

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