as in pries
to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever
the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position
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There are swooping close encounters with heavenly bodies, Lego blocks in antigravity mode and swarms of Separators, a sort of astro-anthropomorphic version of the tool that pries apart Lego bricks in real life.
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The show’s biggest laugh may come when Testa pries open Costanzo’s mouth and pronounces just how many performances of Norma Galas has left.
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In this case, regulation can be more responsive to nuances of context, and the regulatory knobs are tunable rather than being just on/off.
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Of course, Macy is not actually spending late nights at the distillery twisting knobs and loading the wash into fermenters.
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Sandoval seemingly tries to wrestle the phone from her before her father tries to intervene and pulls Sandoval off of her.
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Anthropic did not build Claude Tag as a standalone destination that pulls work out of a company's existing tools.
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The volume buttons are near the top, and the AI button is right next to them.
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These buttons require the press of a button to start cooking or heating something quickly.
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According to the orders placing the counties under quarantine, the quarantine will remain in effect until the commission lifts it.
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This lifts the hull out of the water, reducing hydrodynamic drag and minimizing wake generation.
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At least 28 states, including California and Indiana, have prohibited the ownership and use of Glock switches in specific laws, according to a count by Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit gun control organization.
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The nanometer, an atomic-scale unit of measurement, doesn't refer to the literal size of chips or their components, but to how densely transistors -- the tiny electronic switches that make up processors -- can be packed together.
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Expect coffee shops doubling as gallery spaces, indie venues hosting weekend shows and a community that prizes individuality.
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Traits once seen as stabilizing — empathy, humility, shame — are recast as liabilities in a world that prizes speed, dominance and certainty.
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Larger keys and signatures increase load on protocols, bandwidth and latency, and expose constraints in devices designed for a smaller cryptographic footprint.
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The thieves then find vehicle keys the victims may hide in places such as magnetic lockboxes and steal the vehicle or other valuables such as credit cards, Grieshaber said.
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“Levers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levers. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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