as in hanging (around or out)
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Leadership turnover precisely when growth is decelerating only raises more questions.
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Analysts said investors were focusing on potentially discouraging numbers underneath the surface, including decelerating growth in trends for its software business.
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Spend an afternoon strolling through the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden or visiting the gentle giants at Elephant Nature Park, an ethical rescue and rehabilitation center.
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In fact, when a distraught Tom Hayward suddenly reappears, a content Mary is strolling in a local park on her own.
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The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hands and small heads.
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The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hand and small heads.
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Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.
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The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.
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And his discussion of Turgenev’s The Singers, an ambling story that leads us to a singing competition in an inn, reveals a much quieter social reversal.
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Another good ambling adventure is the Sculpture Trail, featuring works by local artists.
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In an era of digital overwhelm and social isolation, gathering around a table, shuffling tiles and building order out of chaos together feels like exactly what people are reaching for right now.
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The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps.
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The visuals of fighters warming up inside the White House and sauntering down the Truman balcony, many wrapped in the American flag, was an unusual spectacle indeed.
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Kane somehow manages to be a masterful playmaker and deadly striker at the same time, dropping deep to dictate the tempo of a game or spray a 50-yard pass, before sauntering into the box to top up that goal tally.
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Argentina and Spain are riding high after dominant World Cup performances, inching them closer to the tournament’s knockout stage.
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Not cheap, but a relative steal when the average facelift is inching into the six figures.
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“Slowing (down or up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slowing%20%28down%20or%20up%29. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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