It's a glorified landlord with an app and some kegs.
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It added that the mural glorified slavery, genocide, and oppression.
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Some, like Earnin and Even, are glorified payday loan programs.
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This means that they are more than glorified city councillors.
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For decades, the tight end was considered a glorified tackle.
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READMEThe Echo Dot is basically a fun glorified alarm clock.
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Not bad for a glorified garbage man, all in all.
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It makes the basketball look like a glorified scorekeeping tool.
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You can almost forget that this is a glorified commercial.
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Miss Piggy now glorified geisha, forced to be active listener.
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But don't expect it to be a glorified concert movie.
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It once seemed like little more than a glorified secretariat.
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Violence is glorified and normalized on our screens every day.
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This is not so much rising wealth as glorified inflation.
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Paramount in many ways has become a glorified rental property.
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Ultimately, Summer League is a lot like a glorified team practice.
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Mustafa: My plight and art is glorified as the next rapper.
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Cheltenham used to have the feel of a glorified retirement home.
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Everywhere you turn, there's an echo of this glorified movie past.
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It has also acknowledged Yiannopoulos had glorified violence on its platform.
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Essentially, the new puffer on the block is a glorified comforter.
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It's a glorified fork lift, and it's pretty slow and cumbersome.
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When they say they don't, he launches into a glorified autobiography.
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It seemed like dorms used to be, essentially, a glorified closet.
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Uber is really more than a glorified taxi company now, huh?
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I'm wearing little more than glorified underwear, and I am underwhelmed.
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It suggests that India, in past, has glorified its NFU policy.
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I don't remember any disreputable titles that glorified electrification and agriculture.
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They're both glorified salespeople for nationalist ideas that extend beyond themselves.
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Self-improvement for the junkies becomes a kind of glorified hobby.
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Snoop Dogg glorified the "shooting" of Trump in a music video.
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If war is North Korea's goal, diplomacy is just glorified delay.
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Like the Nest Hub, it's essentially a glorified digital photo frame.
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Do you think all songs are just glorified demos in a sense?
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He becomes a glorified stylist for Rachel without any other discerning characteristics.
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To many, Fire Walk with Me played like a glorified TV movie.
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However, some forget that your menu items are actually just glorified links.
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It is my way of praying, and God loves to be glorified.
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They are not glorified ... I think it's definitely a different cultural approach.
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All the both of us want is for Him to be glorified.
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Mowgli is essentially one boy's journey of becoming a glorified park ranger.
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Jerry Wooters in Gangster Squad, another glorified mannequin for Gosling's stylish threads.
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The phone call trick, which Mabbitt called a "glorified wiretap," also worked.
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Culturally, it has glorified punishment and further violence by building more prisons.
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The visiting locker room at the Palace is a glorified broom closet.
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A privilege that was glorified in the literature of white female suffering.
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Our first missile here, the Redstone, was just a glorified V-2.
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Papa John's is glorified microwave pizza, the Cowboys are its football counterpart.
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Our containers system was just a glorified spreadsheet where nothing is automated.
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More than anything, these glorified messaging machines might save our lives one day.
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Ultimately, it's kind of like a glorified Tile, form-fitted to your key.
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He often feels gangster lifestyles are glorified on screen and in popular art.
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We didn't want to make a film that in any way glorified failure.
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Let's be honest: reality singing competitions can often feel like glorified karaoke shows.
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This thing is pretty much a glorified surveillance camera made specifically for pets.
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One of Hollywood's Golden Age legends has been glorified in a Google Doodle.
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Briles will essentially be a glorified offensive coordinator for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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For decades, textbooks have glorified "Pickett's charge" as the epitome of Southern bravery.
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Here's how to elevate your crystals from glorified eye candy to spiritual symbol.
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Critics called his take tone deaf, and said it glorified unhealthy work practices.
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"Honestly, I felt like it was just like a glorified practice," Gardner said.
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As a roaster and rotisserie cooker: People are loving this glorified bingo cage.
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Why are they paying such a premium to travel in a glorified taxi?
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Keeping them locked up in Yellowstone turns them instead into glorified zoo animals.
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The side of history in which slavery was commonplace, glorified, and defended ferociously.
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A modern N.F.L. practice is more like a glorified game of touch football.
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St. Mark's Square has become a "glorified" swimming pool, the Washington Post writes.
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But I need to say, Nine Trey was violent, not to be glorified.
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For all this, McAdoo is extravagantly praised, teased, glorified, impersonated and parodied. Why?
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I mean… Vulpix is glorified in the TV show for its astounding beauty.
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Though, according to the report, even the ones remaining seem more like glorified statues.
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Instead, Futurism glorified war, power, chaos, and destruction – ways of forcing humankind into novelty.
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She maybe smart, and an activist but for fat and overweight shouldn't be glorified !
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Or even something like the Ford Carr-E, which is like a glorified Roomba?
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While computers have inched into classrooms, to date they're used more like glorified calculators.
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"In practice it is nothing better than a glorified spreadsheet or database," he said.
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Whether it's truly an effective foil or simply glorified marketing remains to be seen.
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I also didn't like that they became glorified backup for Archie at the Jubilee.
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The lyrics turned away from glorified date rape fantasies and towards confronting self-hate.
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We splashed the headlines and glorified it as though it mattered… but it didn't.
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He also knew that some of his work unwittingly glorified a culture of abuse.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is basically a glorified agent of the fossil fuel industry.
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With his company Magnises, he managed to swindle investors into backing his glorified fraternity.
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" Trump has fired back, calling the site a "clown show" and a "glorified blog.
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But Charlie is a robot, a two-foot-tall electromechanical machine, a glorified computer.
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No, it's just a glorified book from which the data is indexed and traded.
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In no way is faith or religion really glorified, nor is it vilified, exactly.
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It was all a glorified commercial for Dylan's new line of whiskey, Heaven's Door.
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Military-linked lawmakers deserved to be glorified like Buddha, he said at the rally.
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To hear him tell it, krav maga was like a glorified form of yoga.
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He pooh-poohed the whole enterprise as mere statistical prediction, a glorified weather forecast.
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The company also shut down a group called "beatingwomen," which glorified violence against women.
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"Tech firm markets glorified vending machines where users can buy groceries," said The Guardian.
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"Under Florida law, 'robbers' can be glorified pickpockets, shoplifters and purse snatchers," she wrote.
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Before I lost my job, I was one of those people that glorified the "hustle".
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Prosciutto, in the Western world, is glorified, but people have rarely heard of Chinese ham.
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Her response was a weird flicker of Siri-like intelligence in a glorified search engine.
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It is a glorified ceramic mug that lets you make an omelette in the microwave.
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It still isn't for everyone, but Chrome OS also isn't a glorified web browser anymore.
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The problem, however, is that it's severely underpowered and basically works like a glorified tablet.
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Separated from her child, June isn't measuring up in her utility as a glorified cow.
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Instead of the Apple Car, we're more likely to see an over-glorified Apple Bus.
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Today, though, the internet has resurrected this ancient remedy and glorified it to the max.
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Hatsune Miku was soon glorified with religious fervor—and naturally her disciples needed a church.
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Government should be an agent of the people, a service provider, if a glorified one.
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WWE brought it back, albeit as a glorified house show cum tribute to Carolinas wrestling.
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The 40-seat restaurant is really a glorified burger stand with a sleek midcentury look.
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However, unless that data is meaningful for consumers, the study becomes simply a glorified biobank.
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See folks, that's why his nickname is Johnny Hockey and not Johnny Glorified Skills Competition.
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The video promotions are part of a glorified toy commercial web series called Going Rogue.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led a protest movement that rejected violence and never glorified death.
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The bar really is tiny: The inside is a glorified liquor cabinet and two bathrooms.
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These mono-prints comment on the glorified artist's hand, rendered absent through mechanical reproductive technology.
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"We have frustrations about how the product is glorified on social media," he told me.
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For Uber, riders are in control of Points A and B—drivers are glorified chauffeurs.
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Many professionals who call themselves financial advisers are glorified salespeople, peddling stuff you don't need.
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These monoprints comment on the glorified artist's hand, here rendered absent through mechanical reproductive technology.
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Focusing a plot on a weak villain developed in an over-glorified special effect demo.
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Mr. Choudary has always denied the accusations that he incited or glorified acts of terrorism.
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We even glorified it to the extent of shifting South Korea's policies toward imminent reunification.
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Manning's SCIF was a glorified "plywood box" with lousy airflow, situated on a basketball court.
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While most smart displays are basically glorified photo frames, they're also not very practical looking.
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It's hard for me to see this little gathering as more than glorified public relations.
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For nearly 15 years I've had an incomparable, glorified, admittedly ridiculous crush on the same man.
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That's why I get so unbelievably angry when that chocolate is tainted with glorified cold medicine.
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He effortlessly created stage hierarchies; specialized in effects of grandeur, scale and formality; and glorified women.
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"I can't even describe how glorified I feel that it turned out this way," Davis said.
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There is a big difference between running a political party and running a glorified pressure group.
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More than any other Game of Thrones bloodbath, it read like glorified brutality for brutality's sake.
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Working while sick shouldn't be glorified, and this type of culture change starts from the top.
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"This game is nothing but a glorified asset flip," reads one Steam forum thread on PUBG.
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After high school, I moved to California, where I worked in digital printing — glorified photocopiers, basically.
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The bulk of Em's freestyle sounded like a glorified and tired coffee shop spoken word performance.
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Maybe Tidal should shut down its actual music services and just become a glorified karaoke bar.
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But for 2019, it's important to realize what mobile 5G really is: a glorified beta test.
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I skipped the stage glorified by pervy old directors in artfully lit coming-of-age films.
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Here's a question to ponder from a historic perspective: Is the trackball just a glorified mouse?
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All societies value gold and investing in gold has survived for centuries through marketing -- even glorified.
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He is fond of high-end clothing brands, like Vetements, that essentially produce glorified street wear.
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His party's recently released manifesto backs up this view of women as glorified child-rearing machines.
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Because "Fearless Girl" was commissioned by State Street, some see the statue as a glorified ad.
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He fears a more immediate kind of danger, which can't be aestheticized or glorified in verse.
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Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that what I was eating was basically a glorified salad.
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Biographies like Washington Irving's "The First Voyages of Columbus" further cemented his glorified tales of discovery.
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I like Facebook Messenger and I like that Facebook is now a glorified version of OAuth.
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"A typical congressional race is essentially a glorified city council race," said Republican strategist Ken Spain.
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Observation is, in many ways, a glorified lack of activity, focused attention without a clear purpose.
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So why not let this musical help you through your glorified bus trip in the sky?
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Sam is talking about leaving her job as "a glorified personal assistant" for an older woman.
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He took orders from customers, coordinated with manufacturers and sent off the product — a glorified salesman.
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Many of these encounters are captured, glorified and posted online by skateboard media, athletes and fans.
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They tend to be little more than glorified plastic bags — and they look like them, too.
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While often glorified, these athletes also experience unique stressors that many of us may not understand.
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Local police were not much more than glorified traffic cops, but that was all we needed.
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"The biggest misconception ever is the fact that people think we're glorified waitresses," Pittman told me.
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But instead, it has incentivized greed, glorified competition, and concentrated wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
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The reality of war—intense physical activity—is too much for me, a fey glorified blogger.
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The social media site would remove a video if it celebrated or glorified violence, she said.
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Users now consider how every moment could be glorified and added to the narrative of their day.
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"A coverage banker at a bulge-bracket is essentially a glorified salesman," said a second boutique banker.
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This presents a test for the EU's claim to be more than a glorified free-trade club.
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" Colbert roasted the "glorified restaurant pager" and quipped "you may commence mutual pleasuring, the button has spoken.
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I get a glorified breakfast sandwich on an English muffin with fried potatoes and a chipotle aioli.
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French statist biases are on display: the stockmarket is presented as little more than a glorified casino.
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They've consistently denied that they glorified neo-Nazis but in my opinion the fascist imagery definitely sucks.
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Instead, Putin's display was primarily a glorified stop weeks before his upcoming reelection to a fourth term.
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Face mists have a reputation for being glorified water, but a good one can do a lot.
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This is different from how some liberals glorified the Weathermen, Black Panthers, and other hard left terrorists.
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The Tehran regime, which has sought nuclear capability, has long glorified martyrdom in the path of Allah.
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These bills are, as long as Republicans control the White House and Congress, effectively glorified press releases.
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Ninety percent of their back catalogue is glorified wrestling entrance theme music, in the greatest possible way.
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We glean that the glorified Ben is more of a cipher than Martin can bear to admit.
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What did one of the largest companies on earth need with a glorified discount ice cream truck?
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I'm already wealthy and glorified, and have a chemical imbalance that gives me constant adrenaline-based migraines.
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Lawmakers and regulators (usually) turn a blind eye to this behavior, despite it being glorified false advertising.
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Frankfurt Airport, one of Europe's busiest transit hubs, is now a glorified parking lot for Lufthansa aircraft.
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Let's make one thing clear: This is an intricately-designed collector's replica, not some glorified Hulk Hand.
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Moreover, it can devolve into glorified market research that treats participants as focus groups, not engaged citizens.
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Sunday night's mini-show kicked off with a cover — they've always been a glorified house band, right?
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It's more than 7,700 feet long, which raises two questions: Why span a lake with glorified pool noodles?
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It's a long flight during weird hours so I eat and take a glorified nap for 2 hours.
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GMC has been criticized previously for simply selling glorified Chevrolet models at higher prices, a common industry practice.
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Facebook might sincerely believe that the association will manage the Libra as a kind of glorified Western Union.
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Not a lot of people are willing to put what's basically glorified Jell-O directly onto their face.
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Despite the glorified status that entrepreneurship has obtained in modern culture, it's a huge pain in the pass.
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These are glorified versions of the PDF file that was released by the Justice Department on Thursday morning.
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I connected to the city immediately and found the place quite magical as the city glorified its history.
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Festo's flashy biomimetic robots are more or less glorified tech demos, but that doesn't mean they aren't cool.
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Supreme Court justices are often glorified as philosophers; it's time we actually placed a philosopher on the Court.
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A recent study reveals a new personality trait that is glorified in men but punished in women: Humor.
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If Apple designed a glorified Hot Wheels bed for adults, it might look like the Power Nap Capsule.
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That's a lot for something that some might call a glorified chatbot, but the initiative has its supporters.
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The right to keep and bear arms is a longstanding, often glorified right protected by the US Constitution.
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Hustling at all costs is glorified in today's entrepreneurial landscape while taking breaks is shamed in some circles.
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There's also just one car-accessible campsite in the park, and it is really a glorified gravel pit.
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Difficult and headstrong, Mr. Peckinpah made films that critics said glorified carnage and were more than faintly misogynistic.
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The place is a glorified PATH station for some 50,000 weekday riders commuting to and from New Jersey.
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Even the swooping buildings in the city by Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid tend to be glorified squares.
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Surely there were classier ways to dress up a glorified penis cape without faux snakeskin and tiger print?
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I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
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By endorsing, he made it about him, because his reputation will be glorified by the powers that be.
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There, the ancient tablet gets mounted to the refrigerator with a magnet and becomes a glorified recipe reader.
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Church, Cole and other artists coalesced in the Hudson River School, known for landscapes that glorified the wilderness.
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The party has become a glorified comment section and it seems to be getting worse by the day.
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At the moment, what they've made is a glorified quadcopter, albeit with features that current quadcopters don't have.
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" But he was critical of the status quo in television, calling satellite receivers "nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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In fact, the company published a blog post last month that's essentially a glorified press release for using Airbnb.
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So, yes, Trump owns a club and that club has a glorified brochure published about it once a year.
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She described a cut visible on Slager's hand as "a glorified paper cut" that undoubtedly came from the Taser.
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Holidays, like statues, portray what countries aspire towards, and several former South African holidays (and statues) glorified racial oppression.
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This isn't even a fancy one that heats your coffee — we're taking about a glorified, light-up coaster here.
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Thanks to celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, and Jennifer Lopez, we're officially in the era of glorified glutes.
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Kaplan admitted that the backing tracks basically amount to a "glorified click track," rather than an actual backing track.
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The son's attitude and his demeanor was nonchalant, like he had made it into something that should be glorified.
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In August, Tumblr announced new community guidelines that banned revenge porn, hate speech, and posts that glorified school shootings.
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Hey, there's a first time for everything — including hopping into a glorified golf cart to pick up some milk.
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It's $100 on pre-order, which is a steep price for a glorified Bluetooth remote with a wrist strap.
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The next day, the liberal media vilified everyone associated with the embassy move and glorified the poor Hamas terrorists.
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Turns out, they didn't just look comfortable — they were comfortable, and quite chic for what they were: glorified sweatpants.
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But two weeks after the film released, it did an about-turn, saying the film in fact glorified Rajputs.
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It may sound like a glorified student exchange program, but such programs have had a long and influential history.
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Is it a "blockchain" or a glorified database, and hey, while we're at it, what is a blockchain anyway?
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Lost Cause adherents glorified the antebellum South, painting a bucolic tableau of Southern belles, stately plantations and happy slaves.
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As always, it ends with an exuberant finale that leaves everyone in the theater covered in glorified toilet paper.
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The remains of Ted Williams are currently frozen in a couple of glorified jars—he's simultaneously permanent and not.
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Unlike some smart speakers, which look a bit like glorified Pringles cans, the HomePod is large, sleek, and gorgeous.
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The targets are leftists, minorities, labor unions, and anyone or any institution that isn't glorified in the fascist narrative.
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The Whizzinator is an inarguably goofy device, a glorified dildo with a hole that clean urine can sluice through.
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Acid reflux had never occurred to me because I thought it was basically glorified heartburn (which I'd never had).
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The whole bit is a little over-the-top, but its message is clear: detox teas are glorified laxatives.
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The reasoning behind the clarification is that the FLSA was intended to protect hourly-wage jobs, not glorified internships.
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The event offers plenty of star power, but critics contend that it is little more than a glorified gabfest.
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It was glorified babysitting — you watch kids climb over this giant ant — and that was a lot of fun.
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Some air fryers are just glorified convection ovens that get your food a little crispier than an oven would.
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The O.U.N. and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or U.P.A., are now being glorified as freedom fighters.
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"It felt like only a small variety of different body types were being glorified and posted on social media."
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The ugly secret in many cases is that we're just getting a very expensive and glorified system of childcare.
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We need to get something more than glorified daycare for that $694 billion we spend on education every year.
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Disappointing, then, that he seems to be a glorified background player getting all the attention because he's a man.
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Many Australian homes are just glorified tents, and we expose ourselves to far colder temperatures than the Scandinavians do.
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Monday's wipeout of the Orioles was no exception, as the games devolved into glorified batting practice for the Yankees.
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Monday's wipeout of the Orioles was no exception, as the games devolved into glorified batting practice for the Yankees.
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Inside the satellite, they used glorified seat belts to secure the cylinders, each made of a different metal alloy.
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And instead of working at a desk, guests are increasingly expected to use glorified window sills or oversized TV trays.
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Efron Claims The Movie Doesn't Glorify Bundy "He wasn't a person to be glorified," Efron told Entertainment Tonight in March.
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Earphones have come a long way since their humble beginnings when they looked more like glorified stethoscopes than audio equipment.
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Instead, she treated the IRA as a glorified savings account and missed 10 years of investment growth with compound interest.
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But why would fans pay top dollar for a glorified glow stick they'll only use once in a blue moon?
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Although I'm familiar with enthusiastic consent as a concept, my upbringing really glorified 'being taken' as the ultimate turn on.
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The MicheMobil is essentially a glorified jockey box, so it's the same permits as any catering company dealing with beer.
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She was celebrated by pop culture icons, like Bono of U2, and glorified in a film that narrated her sacrifice.
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" Garfield was once an executive assistant at a Valley startup, a "glorified secretary who hated the work and felt depressed.
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Depending on whom you asked back in the States, Joel was either a pop genius or a glorified lounge singer.
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While they haven't made any official announcement ... c'mon ... no woman's sitting through a guy's glorified practice, unless she's banging him.
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And no, not Uber's version of ride-sharing — basically a glorified taxi service — but actual car trips shared between strangers.
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Where men of color—particularly Black men—are seen as inherently violent, white men who commit crime often become glorified.
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Her role isn't much more than a glorified cameo whose main purpose seems to be to set up future films.
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Really, Loop is just a glorified picture frame that also supports video and conveniently comes with an SD card slot.
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They have tons of computing power and resources, whereas I'm trying to make this happen basically using a glorified Arduino.
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Yet the murderers of innocents are still glorified on Fatah websites, including showing attackers next to Palestinian leaders following attacks.
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A few executives may have turned down some glorified photo-ops, but that was just an exercise in brand management.
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Her own commander used to call her a "glorified secretary"—a particularly insulting characterization in the wake of traumatic experiences.
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Every two to three years, the European Space Agency hosts a ministerial council which is essentially a glorified budget meeting.
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They are glorified roadhouses for splashy Broadway shows, touring ballet and modern dance companies, traveling symphonies and native-language theater.
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It is also a culture that has glorified being busy — or at the very least conflates those things with status.
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The Color Factory team doesn't see itself as a glorified photo booth, even though cameras are installed in the rooms.
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More than a glorified zip tieAt first glance, the Z-Lok just looks like any other garden variety zip tie.
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Companies like Microsoft and Ikea have once again spent lavishly to transform ski town gift shops into glorified exhibition booths.
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Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, condemned the resolution on the House floor as "a glorified press release."
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By letting you send and receive audio messages accompanied by gestures through an app, this is really a glorified answering machine.
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Early on, the tinny audio and the lack of expandability (no vinyl, mostly) made the devices glorified radio tuners at first.
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Larson admitted to DeGeneres that she felt more like a "glorified extra" in the film, but Johansson said she took notice.
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Snapchat, the app once glorified for its secret messaging capabilities, is now helping you see real things happening in real time.
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It was, essentially, the glorified disposable film camera from my youth, except it wasn't disposable, and it was rugged and waterproof.
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The ring is largely used as a glorified notification LED, lighting up when you receive alerts or plug the phone in.
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Like my colleague Vlad Savov argues, you might be paying a substantial amount of money to become a glorified beta tester.
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Series posts can contain a much smaller amount of text than a traditional Medium post, making them feel like glorified captions.
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If it feels like you've just shelled out money to watch a glorified commercial for the real program, you're not wrong.
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The film focusses on the tug-of-war of male emotional kvetching between the two, relegating their bandmates as glorified extras.
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But then we came upon this glorified ditch claiming to be a pond, in which the dogs were all splashing around.
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That culture was so normalized and glorified that at a young age I ignored any feelings of being underpaid and overworked.
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More than just a glorified spreadsheet application, Excel is a powerful data analysis tool that's as nimble as it is robust.
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Taking huge risks is often glorified — and while it works out for some, there are many stories of people who fail.
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But the jokes about these dolts being left behind by the industry that once glorified them run out of juice fast.
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There were Amazons with aging skin and crows feet and not ONE of them wore armor that was a glorified corset.
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Laraine Newman played her, and Borkin, relegated to a glorified extra, only got one line ("Most people join to work out").
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Nazis might sometimes be figures of fun, but they must be the butt of the joke, and never even ironically glorified.
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"The dark spaces in New York are always the ones being glorified: basement clubs, dark alleys, deserted subway tunnels," says Bareham.
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Mad Men wasn't just a critically acclaimed show; it was a look into a darker side of the often glorified 1960s.
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When she thinks of an alternative to patriarchy, can she imagine nothing more radical than a glorified version of maternal caregiving?
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For example, if you're Andres Guardado or Hector Herrera, why would you care about two matches that were essentially glorified friendlies?
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After all, it's a glorified U23 tournament and teams that have won Olympic gold haven't had great success in senior tournaments.
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Watchdog groups with governmental ties like the Parents Music Resource Center argued that his "gangsta" music glorified violence and corrupted children.
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It feels weird to take the trouble to go to the theatre just to watch Jake Gyllenhaal do a glorified audition.
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Her appearance does weakly justify all the Latin-lover hot air that Andy Garcia has to blow as Sophie's glorified help.
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Yet the murderers of innocents are still glorified on Fatah web sites, including showing attackers next to Palestinian leaders following attacks.
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Had we reached a tipping point where we no longer wanted music that either glorified violence or reveled in shallow materialism?
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And a not-insignificant aspect of John McEnroe's relationship to it — and other major tournaments — is now as a glorified spectator.
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Too often, the players feel, owners must be dragged into treating them like they're human beings, rather than glorified auto parts.
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What is it about a ground beef patty slapped between two glorified pieces of bread that just keeps us coming back?
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"Really, this plebiscite is no more than a glorified opinion poll — a 122-million-dollar opinion poll," a Melbourne professor said.
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Joker was a highly divisive film, with many people (including Vox staff) arguing that it glorified violence without saying anything new.
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My brunette bob had become a glorified sweat magnet, and the micro-fringe around my hairline was plastered onto my forehead.
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I want to believe that each drastic measure will pay off, and not just turn out to be glorified P.R. stunts.
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I've been around the block with many "at-home facials," and can confirm: A lot of them are just glorified moisturizers.
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After that, he ended up in a "glorified Bushwick flophouse," which had a secret entrance in the back of a bookstore.
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But what bothered me was the fame aspect of it, how he knew he was going to be glorified in the news.
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Trump seems to have a middle school civics class idea of how we elect a president -- that it's a glorified popularity contest.
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"Brad will be the first glorified web designer to run an incumbent president's reelection campaign in history," one former campaign staffer said.
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Balm Dotcom |$12This may just be a glorified Vaseline, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming one of Glossier's top rated products.
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She quits college to be a good wife and mother, then finds herself a glorified housekeeper for Shirley and Stanley in Vermont.
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In its lower echelons, my name was listed with the title of Research Editor, which is a glorified term for fact-checker.
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At many points, "The Final Problem" is a glorified Saw movie, the torture porn supplanted by polished accents and the BBC's prestige.
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After all, people who have struggled with self-harm (this writer included) probably don't appreciate seeing their struggles glorified and joked about.
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They're implementing a now-entrenched notion of what makes a winning red-carpet dress: a glorified prom dress with a couture tag.
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There's no support yet for notifications or offline support, so you're mostly just getting a glorified link to the Google Photos site.
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The Dot's become part of my daily routine as a glorified alarm clock that sits on the table next to my bed.
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The restaurant replaces Oscar's American Brasserie, a glorified coffee shop whose loss did not leave a deep wound in the city's psyche.
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Yet long after his execution in Melbourne in 1880, this bearded criminal is glorified in countless books, films, statues, paintings and songs.
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Maybe, like Wayne at 28, I'm just heading off in a weird direction that will end with me peddling glorified Zubaz pants.
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"A lot of people who look from the outside in think we're just glorified babysitters, but we're not," Brittany Hampton, 31, said.
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The day's events, free for anyone who's willing to take the hike, is something like a glorified and historically rigorous Ren faire.
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While receiving wide praise, the album has been accused of being a glorified cover of artists like George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
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They characterize the Foundation as a glorified Clinton political slush fund, dedicating only about 10 percent of expenditures to actual charity work.
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Until she does, her new official role seems more like a glorified babysitting gig than it does a platform for shaping policy.
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The Roadster was instrumental in changing perceptions about EVs, which up to that point had been thought of as glorified golf carts.
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One user said the robot looked like "a glorified toaster oven or a knock off of R2D85033" from the "Star Wars" trilogy.
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Duffy, who typically defends Trump's policy positions, said at a roundtable in Wisconsin that he doesn't think Confederate leaders should be glorified.
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In a TED Talk on "your elusive creative genius," she quotes famous artists who glorified the idea that pain must precede creativity.
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The grizzled sideline fixture known as Pops says it's a glorified after-school program for his players, all of whom are adults.
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"They thought rap only glorified drugs or and violence, which is how most people in Oaxaca tend to think," Ms. Pombo said.
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In parts of Asia, atrocities committed in Nazi Germany are poorly understood, and Hitler is sometimes glorified as a strong, effective leader.
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There's a timeliness to McDonagh's movie, which can get lost in the abundance of glorified, Tarantino-esque violence but shouldn't be ignored.
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So annoying that I disliked him to the point of writing a whole glorified Ryan Reynolds hate post that never got published.
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In parts of Asia, atrocities committed in Nazi Germany are poorly understood and Hitler is sometimes glorified as a strong, effective leader.
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The Manchester United manager has always regarded the three months of the group phase as little more than a glorified preliminary round.
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Textbooks are getting a larger dose of Communist Party lore, including glorified tales about the party's fights against foreign invaders like Japan.
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His early writing unintentionally glorified the culture of toxic masculinity that existed in kitchens then, and that in many ways still exists.
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Officials on various House investigative committees described the process as a loose, informal request that prosecutors typically treat as glorified press releases.
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The General Assembly speeches offer plenty of star power, but critics contend that they amount to little more than a glorified gabfest.
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It turned Wafa's glorified shed into a radio station and turned hundreds of Afghans working for the US military into DJ warriors.
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Then I read an article about how the show didn't do a good job making that clear and that it glorified things.
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Hampton's tricks were glorified onstage, but he died alone and impoverished at 39, after spending his last days in an AIDS hospice.
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Harrison and Delgado also started promoting ''emergency abortion pill reversal kits,'' glorified instructional pamphlets intended for emergency rooms and crisis pregnancy centers.
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Last season, in what amounted to a glorified farewell tour before Bryant's retirement, the Lakers finished with a franchise-worst 17 wins.
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Gilbert Osmond is neither stupid nor tasteless: he's precisely the sort of person who's been glorified as rakish in endless rom coms.
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His teacher—the now-glorified Wing Chun master Ip Man—encouraged his students to seek out real world application beyond the classroom.
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Conservatives glorified him as a free speech advocate, particularly after protesters at U.C. Berkeley were able to cancel one of his speaking events.
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Just unveiled at the Geneva International Motor Show, the latest special edition of Lamborghini's entry-level Huracàn is a glorified wing on wheels.
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For the next 10 years, I was a sympathy prop turned glorified luggage, bouncing around several countries, eventually attending nine different elementary schools.
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Loot boxes have come under fire in recent months, with regulators accusing developers of adding what amount to glorified slot machines into games.
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The "bathing machine", a "glorified garden shed on wheels", was rolled down to the seashore so women would not be seen in swimwear.
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The casting drew controversy among fans who found it demeaning that an Asian woman would one day turn into a glorified snake servant.
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Nilay is now my boss, and seems relatively chill for someone who struggled so mightily with a glorified TV remote in his past.
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From the photo, it looks like Glass is serving as a glorified hands-free inventory management system for workers on the shop floor.
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When it's time for the the drone to land, it does a sort of glorified crash landing—this thing has no landing gear.
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In fact, some companies are even profiting off of these types of working conditions, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for glorified hostels.
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Merah, nicknamed Bin Laden in his neighborhood after he glorified the 9/11 attacks — does not deny being a role model for Mohammed.
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But the 72-year-old car rental company sees its role as bigger than just a glorified car wash for Waymo's robot taxis.
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If mothers are glorified hobbyists who produce less value than nonmothers, it follows that they're getting a free ride on everyone else's labor.
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" He says it's often glorified trolling, "the most transgressive thing you can get away with saying without actually getting called out for it.
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It's a glorified PowerPoint, tracking the Chainsmokers in photos and video clips from babyhood, through their awkward teenage years, and into the present.
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The musicians once glorified for technical skill and lyrical mastery found their popularity leveled with players that valued speed and passion over precision.
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And that's exactly what the world has needed for a long time when it comes to the glorified gangsters running things in Pyongyang.
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To be minding your business, enjoying your $25, glorified Ellio's pizza, totally unaware that someone else's phlegm is going along for the ride.
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They've glorified violence and terrorism against innocent Israelis, including providing financial assistance to the families of Palestinians who died carrying out such attacks.
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It's the resume of a performer seemingly at a precipice, either on his way to glorified character actor status, or leading man prestige.
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The biggest takeaway: Hawn's hair color is 100% natural, and admits she's a glorified "perfume addict" with a signature jasmine scent to boot.
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Ms. Rowlson-Hall, who also directs her own music videos and movement-based films, jokes about being a "glorified cheerleader" on the set.
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North Korea long expressed disdain for Bolton, calling him a "warmonger" and "defective human product" who glorified regime change and pre-emptive strikes.
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"I think now, in some ways, pro football is more glorified college football," Brady said Monday during his weekly interview on WEEI radio.
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So, whether torture was glorified or condemned, it was everywhere, and horror films of the time reflected our collective anxieties on the subject.
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This implies an industrywide shift in hardware to the production of a glorified, but low-margin golf cart — and adopting Uber's business model.
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I enjoy how I can assimilate into both cultures and be proud of my origins, however historically disenfranchised or glorified they may be.
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By contrast, he never really connected with Mr. Tillerson, who was used to being a chief executive rather than a glorified staff member.
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It was just a B game, or a glorified practice game, but regular Mets starters like Brandon Nimmo were also in the lineup.
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Now she's returning in this play by John Wulp, which stars the delightful Bedlam Theater regular Andrus Nichols as the chatty glorified soul.
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We walk out of the theater shocked by this lurid conclusion and uncertain whether we have just seen female bloodlust glorified or condemned.
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It was the Jazz Age, the days of the flapper, when youth was glorified, the way it would be again in the 1960s.
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He was put on magazine covers, and he glorified North Korean life in messages that were broadcast to American troops across the border.
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His friends say he was long underestimated and treated as a glorified errand boy, even when he worked under Michael Eisner at Disney.
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The fear is that outside of Scotland, rival political parties will be reduced to the status of glorified think tanks or nongovernmental organizations.
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After months of work, the startup wanted to prove that chatbots don't have to be a glorified command line interface for customer support.
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The festival was held on the stadium's parking lot and due to its sheer massiveness, most of Friday looked like a glorified tailgate.
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Resembling a glorified dog crate, the movable neon-green pod makes many of the tiny houses currently on the market look like McMansions.
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What do you have to say to the people who may dismiss your product as being a glorified sake and not actually a whisky?
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The Gunslinger's path isn't glorified, and The Dark Tower seems to be tonally in line with this year's earlier cinematic deconstruction of heroes, Logan.
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But Trump is reportedly truly passionate about and dedicated to getting a wall—not just a glorified super fence, but a big, beautiful wall.
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And I'm not just talking about trying to solve a non-problem with a glorified version of a product or service that already exists.
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Celebrities like Billie Holiday released memoirs in the 1950s, but before Feiffer discovered Christina, they were typically glorified press releases written by A-listers.
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At best, homeopathic treatments are nothing but glorified placebos, but if improperly diluted or otherwise contaminated, they can actually be dangerous or even fatal.
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Slack might have begun life as a glorified IRC channel, but it aspires to be the place where you do much of your work.
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Specifically, the "Peeper Creeper," which hangs on a window and looks like someone peering inside, was pulled after customers complained that it glorified voyeurism.
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That bad rep comes from projects that get creative with the truth and the laws of thermodynamics, such as this slightly glorified USB meter.
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Mostly it's a glorified chatroom where you can create small communities that cultivate web knowledge into a single location that others can comment on.
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The second-generation of the glorified Expedition didn't capture the same magic, with a lot of its sales going to General Motor's Cadillac Escalade.
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It could even become a glorified CW, should a studio like Sony team up with another player to share the cost of the network.
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PARIS (Reuters Breakingviews) - Europe's venture capitalists sometimes joke that they're glorified civil servants, since government agencies are still the largest contributors to many funds.
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If you use a smart speaker, you know all of the conveniences and delights that make it more than just a glorified paper weight.
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Unable to get a formal education, Michael began to work as an extra in propaganda films, which glorified Germany's past empire and racial superiority.
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It's a glorified sideshow, but that doesn't make taking a loss from the Property Brothers sting any less, and you can feel that urgency.
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Everyone running this festival is hiding in the glorified frat house right now trying to figure it out, but they won't speak to anyone.
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I've jokingly called the 2003 reboot a glorified car commercial, but in some ways, it was the best sort of advertisement for the car.
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It doesn't take a genius to realize that even the best conversational AIs available today are little more than glorified voice-activated remote controls.
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But its aspirational branding has lured in billions of dollars from tech investors who believe the company is much more than a glorified landlord.
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MORE wasn't ready, in my opinion, to be president" and stated Obama was just "a glorified state senator" during a discussion on "Morning Joe.
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The last time he fought, he took on an athlete who had never boxed professionally before in what was a glorified semi-professional exhibition.
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In 1905, Confederate veterans erected in the center of town a monument to Forrest with an inscription that glorified his attributes as a general.
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When I asked if Citizen is just a glorified police blotter, its founder issued a strong defense, seeming to take offense to the question.
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But the book is an extraordinary achievement that should shame the hundreds of reporters and editorial writers who naïvely glorified Moses over the decades.
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To critics it is a glorified bus terminal, and an expensive one at that — the cost hovers around $6 billion, according to the authority.
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One of the most fundamental ways to keep a narrative from bolstering a predator's glorified self-impression is to directly push back against it.
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The dragons were glorified lizards and the first big combat sequence, the Battle of the Blackwater, didn't come until the end of Season 2.
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He is a lackey of the British government, a glorified civil servant, the speedboats and dalliances with the Pussy Galores of the world aside.
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The problem with VR headsets is that they still all look like VR headsets — glorified ski goggles that shut you off from the world.
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Instead, he acts as if the canning of Lewandowski — who was really nothing more than a glorified body man — will do the trick. 2202.
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As the head of the department for the show's assistant directors, he's used to people seeing his title and assuming he's a glorified production assistant.
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It's possible, though these bots are essentially glorified tablets-on-wheels, and their functionality has mostly been usurped by smart speakers from Amazon and Google.
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Plenty of pinot grigio and a dearth of hor d'oeurves later, I tipsily forgot that I was in glorified workout clothes at a posh party.
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The Chapo Guzman case has always been nothing more than a glorified inquisition and the government's refusal to simply hear from the jurors seals it.
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Over two months, hip-hop fans (myself included) had songs on repeat that not only used offensive words, but also glorified some very questionable behavior.
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Human influencers like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner might want to secure their positions in the influencer realm before they get ousted by glorified Sims.
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They're glorified plastic, synthetic acrylic resins, peddled as "natural turquoise" with emblems of Navajo, Zuni, and Pueblo culture that Native Americans source, manufacture, and sell.
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For the uninitiated, the Humanity Star is a glorified disco ball that was launched into low Earth orbit by the private aerospace company Rocket Lab.
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The previous Jet 29 came out nearly three years ago and was little more than a glorified motor that got your floors damp at best.
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Otherwise, you have opened a glorified savings account, without even the benefit of the better interest rate you can get with some high-yield accounts.
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Inside and outside the company, he's elevated the role and glorified the promise of artificial intelligence — the ability of advanced computers to make independent decisions.
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He also noted that such limits are little more than glorified price hikes, only made possible by a lack of broadband competition in many markets.
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However, many of those in favor of their dismantling argue that they represent a painful legacy of slavery and racism that should not be glorified.
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While previous versions were basically a glorified Snapchat camera you could wear, the price point (at $129 and $149) at least sort of made sense.
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It neither felt like I was scrubbing off a layer of skin nor like I was simply using a glorified cleanser: It was jusssssst right.
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For all the work and advocacy that's gone into the new-look Democratic legislation, the documents remain -- for now -- little more than glorified press releases.
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Some people said the lyrics of N.W.A and other gangsta rappers glorified violence, while others said they simply reflected the reality of black urban life.
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Afterward, several states in the South began to reconsider monuments or symbols of the Confederacy, which critics felt glorified the history of racism and slavery.
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There are a vast number of running belts on the market, from money belts that are just glorified fanny packs, to high-tech hydration belts.
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The powerful people in his office aren't seeing him as a glorified intern: They're seeing him as someone they'd very much like to take home.
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You basically get encouraged to drink and live this party lifestyle, and then when you hit rock bottom it's almost glorified, and it's so shit.
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When I worked at Starbucks in Seattle's Capitol Hill and in Portland's Pearl District, my job duties basically shifted to being a glorified bathroom monitor.
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I bought prepaid minutes by the month on cards sold in the checkout lines at grocery stores, to load onto that glorified doorstop with buttons.
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In the 1970s and 80s, Kim Il Sung preferred staid folk music and orchestral arrangements that glorified Korean history and socialist workers of the world.
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They unwrap three gifts for her, and she only has a glorified rock and few bottles of wine (one from New Zealand) to gift them.
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Now, with austerity measures slashing maintenance budgets and leaving streets gashed with potholes, councils are also contending with proposals for what they call glorified billboards.
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" Mr. Faso wrote that he believed that Mr. Delgado's lyrics "denigrated our nation and the free enterprise system, and often glorified pornography and drug use.
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He has been a savior, a clubhouse pariah, a glorified pinch runner, and lately has come to be seen as some sort of baseball mystic.
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Politicians, workers and investors could have pushed back against the corporate raiders in the 1980s, who glorified short-term profits and made enormous personal fortunes.
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This kind of quirky matchup lent charm to the bowls of old, those glorified exhibitions, and have carried over as tantalizing elements of the playoff.
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Make no mistake, though they may sound to American ears like glorified all-star games, the Lions matches are a huge deal to rugby players.
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In "One Fat Summer," my glorified semi-autobiographical hero, Bobby, stood up to the bullies and survived their beating, an important lesson for males then.
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At that point, it becomes a glorified fitness tracker — more on that in a second — that I can use like a mini-iPhone when needed.
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The latter interpretation of her actions would constitute a direct contradiction of the tenets of democracy for which she has been so glorified for upholding.
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Hong Kong is far more useful to the Chinese government as it is today than if it became a glorified version of Shenzhen or Shanghai.
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Little more than a glorified pedometer at the time, the Fitbit couldn't monitor your heart rate, pay for anything, or even tell you the time.
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The wide halls, regal rooms and wrought-iron arches of the Park Avenue Armory have glorified military might since its founding during the Gilded Age.
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In other words, humans are glorified lab rats who will go through a maze in a certain direction to find sugar water at the end.
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He's trying to build real artists — not glorified printers or Instagram filters but algorithms that make creative decisions and develop their own style over time.
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In the United States, weddings are glorified as such fantastic events and signify the choice of two people who found each and fell in love.
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When I said an utter waste of money before, that's simply because the Puffco Peak is expensive, especially for what it is: a glorified dab rig.
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The casino started as a glorified arcade, filled with electronic poker and bingo machines, but it has now grown into the 21-story Harrah's Cherokee Casino.
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A lot of people call it glorified A/B testing, but the Facebook platform allows you to do this rapidly like within seconds and at scale.
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The overhaul includes what the company is calling Chat 2.0—a glorified messaging service that makes it easy to send photos, videos, GIFs, stickers, and more.
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Google Assistant is basically just a glorified version of Google Now from last year's phone, and there's no way it's worth the extra few hundred dollars.
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Since the pure iteration of the Naked Chicken Chalupa is really just a glorified chicken sandwich without bread, I figured I should treat it as such.
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We saw the first path when a totalitarian movement on college campuses glorified the suppression of free speech, making wusses (and worse, little dictators) of students.
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At one time, this was prime time British television; C-list celebrities imitating A- to C-list celebrities in the format of a glorified Butlins event.
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For users, this will make for a far better experience than the current one, which mostly treats the links to the web apps as glorified bookmarks.
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Allbirds's glorified slippers are most useful if all you do is pad around an office all day, and even then you should still avoid inclement weather.
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It was a distinction that shaped its nationalist narrative, which glorified the monarchy while sheltering its monks from the activism of their counterparts in neighboring countries.
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Afterward, several states in the American South began to reconsider monuments or symbols of the Confederacy, which critics felt glorified the history of racism and slavery.
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The erstwhile glorified ability of industry leaders to spot trends in advance, which catapulted many retail executives to the role of CEO, has become increasingly irrelevant.
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He is true to the nature of his subject: Black Mountain College radically pushed against glorified individualism and nourished a notion of art based on community.
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Down in Florida at Ringling Bros.' glorified breeding farm, baby elephants were taken from their mothers shortly after birth and broken with ropes, clubs, and solitude.
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Most work spectacularly long hours, spend chunks of most weeks in what amount to glorified student digs in London, have little time for their families. Why?
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This case shows that sometimes, the worst offenders don't only escape punishment -- Brooks resigned, but got re-elected shortly thereafter -- but get glorified for bad behavior.
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As the visitor continues through the exhibition, Iran's territory shrinks; the country's contemporary size appears small in comparison to the glorified empire painted on the wall.
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Short of outright fraud, popular culture has glorified the hardship story in college admissions, persuading many students to make it an essential part of their application.
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They include two puppeteers who were detained after staging a show during Madrid's Carnival festivities in 2016 that the authorities said glorified terrorism and promoted hatred.
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But that doesn't fully explain why Sixers fans have taken to him as if he were an overrated historical artifact or a glorified Kwik-E-Mart.
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The mode is basically a glorified skinned Android launcher that faithfully re-creates the original RAZR UI through software, right down to the classic boot animation.
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They'll then saddle the glorified prop with their massive ambitions, even if the car might just fall to pieces if you breathe on it too hard.
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Those who felt that the Central Park staging at the Delacorte Theater glorified assassination as a response to tyranny may not actually have read the play.
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Media portrays a glorified view of our lives, including the flaunting of wealth, partying, and manufactured happiness, but this is how my unfiltered generation would appear.
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Netflix added a similar message to the TV series "13 Reasons Why" after it faced criticism from mental health professionals who said the show glorified suicide.
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Trying to turn Echo into a glorified Fire tablet could demote Alexa to a mere feature versus the genie in a bottle we know her as.
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What if art wasn't a glorified tax write off for the wealthy and instead was treated as the public necessity we all know it to be?
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And it's an answer to ComplexCon, the glorified mall and music festival hosted by the "youth culture" media monolith Complex in Long Beach, California, every November.
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As good as his ability to weather the storm was, Breazeale's offensive output was lacking to say the least—he was rendered a glorified human punching bag.
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Unveiled with characteristic hubris at an overblown event, the $349 price was seen as wildly excessive at the time for what amounted to a glorified iPod dock.
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I refuse to have my story written and glorified for the advancement of a man who refuses to support my right to exist of my own truth.
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The condemnation of the music—such as Hip Hop DX's infamous headline calling Playboi Carti a "glorified beat tape with ad-libs"—began to effect the output.
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Essentially little more than a glorified moan-fest, meetings of this nature are ubiquitous in office culture, and are known for sucking the life out of productivity.
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"Illegal activity was glorified at the Bada Bing in the fictional world of Tony Soprano, but it has no place in modern-day New Jersey," he continued.
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I'd seen old Westerns, the ways they often glorified white men in saddles and depicted Native Americans and women with less poetry than they accorded the sunsets.
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The concept sounds terrible: You play as Todd, a photographer enlisted by Professor Oak to ride along in a glorified minecart, taking pictures of first generation Pokémon.
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The labels themselves were small, measuring 10-by-11 inches, but their vibrant colors and idyllically rendered subjects glorified the Edenic abundance of Southern California: the sunshine!
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There's all of the built-in features and the promise of better baking, coupled with the simple motivating factor of spending $599 on a glorified toaster oven.
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But he has devoted extensive attention to the field, especially in more recent years, in part because of the way the media has glorified social-psychology research.
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"You could have used those calories elsewhere for nutrients that you do need and that you could get from whole foods," Sechowski says of the glorified gumdrops.
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Though nominally a world championship event, the Club World Cup has struggled to be viewed as more than a glorified friendly, especially by the top European teams.
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But whatever the reason, the court's cultural acquiescence defines most of the major cases for which the court has been glorified by progressives and castigated by conservatives.
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But that hard look should not avoid confronting the "we" that is actually glorified — and asking whether under its team colors, it hides something much more sinister.
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Let's be real, most of those unread emails are for newsletters you signed up for ages ago or glorified Postmates ads that aren't a great deal anyhow.
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While my brisket could not, of course, compete with the glorified-in-memory perfection of my mother's, the heady aroma swirling around my apartment came pretty close.
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But the hypnotizing power display of vast organizations which exhibited and glorified power, trained man — without necessity — to recklessness and the unquestioning acceptance of death and annihilation.
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My first job when I moved to New York was working as a glorified dishwasher (official title: "kitchen assistant") at the midtown location of Sur La Table.
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"They have a glorified retrospective view of America," Cuomo said of the federal government's logic for the proposed plan to expand offshore oil and natural gas leasing.
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When self-harm is glorified or – as in this case – put into an almost religious context, so that it is evaluated positively, the risk is particularly high.
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The Indian government keeps a sharp eye on diaspora events and has complained in the past that people it considers terrorists are glorified as martyrs at some parades.
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In reality, I walked around knocking on doors of businesses and offices all day in my assigned territory, hawking glorified coupon books for spa packages and sports tickets.
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They wanted to know why the show never touched on the subject of mental illness and why it chose to turn teenage turmoil into a glorified scavenger hunt.
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At least Juan Nieves and Ricky Ledee are on hand as glorified extras to lend actual MLB experience, along with future Yankees and Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland.
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In his earlier mixtapes and albums, Drake relied on intimacy through in-depth specifics, dropped-into stories that might be able more glorified versions of your own experiences.
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I had mixed emotions about him bringing the drone to the beach where I own what amounts to a glorified shipping container stuffed with mattresses and a fridge.
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"Â "The problem with Facebook's entire 'news team' is that they're glorified client services people, but with absolutely no power over, or ability to shape, the actual product.
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"The Cheffe" is the story of a gifted chef glorified in Bordeaux for her cooking but silent and stoic when it comes to her own achievements and celebrity.
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The heavy foot traffic through areas closest to the main stages (coupled with the huge volume of people) meant that, by Friday, many camping areas were glorified swamps.
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It may come across as a glorified Dave & Buster's at first glance, but even a month before it opens, it's obvious that there's quite a lot more there.
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Essentially, Home is a glorified speaker with an embedded personal assistant in the same vein as Google Now, but plugs into a wall socket much like Amazon's Echo.
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These types of systems are often dismissed as glorified versions of cruise control, but they're also a canary in the coal mine when it comes to full autonomy.
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The e-kart prototype isn't just a glorified golf cart; it was designed from scratch as an EV. Heck, it even has a high-tech EV drivetrain onboard.
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But not even his glorified space MacGyver could've figured out how to make such a convincing space helmet out of socks, a onesie and a hot glue gun.
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I found good farmers and collaborated with them to feed children at a bilingual elementary school in suburban Beijing, unexpectedly becoming a glorified lunch lady with a mission.
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Let me tell you something about that little perspex scarf Katy has on: That bit of glorified glad wrap is basically the clearest thing in all our lives.
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Many local outlets have been so hollowed out that they serve as glorified police blotters, little more than collections of mugshots provided to them by local law enforcement.
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He began making at home "a glorified Cuban long bread," a traditional sandwich stuffed with ham, cheese and mayo, to which he added a secret ingredient, honey mustard.
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For those who can afford it, he said, the developers hope to offer "the ability for families to really live, rather than being crammed into a glorified rental."
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In a sense, it's a bit a glorified pedometer/heart rate monitor — and for that reason, the $200 price tag will probably be tough for many to swallow.
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Moreover, information has been glorified into something that we capture, record, store, and expel, and that is abstract to the extent that, like Plato's ideas, cannot be seen.
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As with eighties hooliganism itself, elements of casual culture have been exaggerated and glorified retrospectively, with mid-noughties films like Green Street and The Football Factory especially culpable.
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Her Thomas More -- canonized in 1935 and glorified by Robert Bolt's 1960 play, 'A Man For All Seasons' -- is in Mantel's telling a bloodthirsty theocrat, a biblical fundamentalist.
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He was trending because of a quote that had been attributed to him stating Melania Trump was a "glorified escort" and that he was refusing to dress her.
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The big name companies like H&M aren't interested in creating anything other than glorified shopping assistants, whose only purpose is to wave shiny things in your face.
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Because it seems like a glorified wedding band is exactly what they are, since wedding bands are primarily invented to ruin some of the best songs ever invented.
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Back then, I split the cost of a glorified computer — called a "miner" — with a childhood friend, and this machine generated us a finite amount of digital money.
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Anyway, at first glance I thought it was a bit silly for Apple to ask people to pay $150 more for a glorified Sonos, which starts at $200.
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I am not sure why this woman's life isn't being exemplified as well as glorified more than it is, but it is important that her story be told.
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It sounds like a lofty academic post but actually is closer to being a kind of glorified RA — though even this is arguably an overstatement of the role.
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The lawn, as we know it, is an anachronism: It's a living fossil from the 1950s, the era of Levittown, glorified suburban sprawl, and better living through chemistry.
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Concert filmmaking is an oft-dismissed branch of the documentary genre, but Demme proved time and again that concert films could be more than glorified marketing for musicians.
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In both his book, Kitchen Confidential, and the show, he inspires generations of young 'Glorified Dishwashers' to become so much more, just as he once did with his career.
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In fact, phenylephrine's reputation has gotten so bad lately that some doctors have called it a glorified placebo and pushed for it to be taken off the shelves entirely.
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As he departed for Catalonia in the summer of 2011, it was hard not to feel that Fabregas' time with Arsenal had been little more than a glorified loan.
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Some proponents of the game claim it's depicting simply a variation on violence that is allowed and largely glorified by many mainstream, big-budget titles, like first-person shooters.
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He'd prefer a value added tax like European countries have, a sort of glorified sales tax that would be paid by everyone based on how much they consume. Sen.
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Monuments and shrines to Nicholas II, who has been glorified as a saint, have sprouted across Russia, although they are still far outnumbered by statues and memorials to Lenin.
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It has to do with how such machines work, and also with the nature of division—it's basically just "glorified subtraction," as the folks at Numberphile will tell you.
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After a weekend of low-effort costumed drunks fighting, fucking, and puking in front of my apartment—sometimes simultaneously—I thought we were done this year's glorified national Santacon.
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Electric cars can take a long time to charge, which helps explain why Tesla is so invested in building glorified waiting rooms at its Supercharger stations for its customers.
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Sixteen dollars for a glorified platform is preposterous when you can get all of the information in the book—most of which means next to nothing—for free online.
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Apple, unlike Amazon and Google, understands that selling glorified intelligence-in-a-box as a method of human computer interaction lacks foresight — people want a product, not a technology.
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Gentrification has reached peak form thanks to two ex-Google employees who want to replace bodegas, corner stores, and delis with a glorified vending machine that they're calling Bodega.
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Today's deals are all about making your home a smart one and turning those voice-enabled devices into something more than a ghostly listening device or glorified weather forecaster.
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For instance, Nintendo described the controller as a "second window into the video game world," but for Mario Kart 8 the screen was mostly a glorified car horn button.
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The Associated Press reported that the documentary glorified Kim's trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, and left out the failure between him and Trump to reach an agreement in denuclearization talks.
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Nowhere was this clearer than in Syria, where observers likened Putin's so-called troop-withdrawal announcement to a glorified campaign stop, rather than any truly significant foreign policy shift.
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Downgrading the film to become a glorified television pilot could help cut the company's losses while appeasing fans of the series, even if it's a huge blow to Lionsgate.
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"The El Paso shooter specifically referenced the Christchurch incident and appears to have been inspired by the largely unmoderated discussions on 22017chan which glorified the previous massacre," wrote Prince.
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In many ways, business improvement districts serve as a glorified Chamber of Commerce, promoting the agendas of members; they keep the streets swept, fight crime and host street fairs.
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Aside from the fact the PGA is a major it brings nothing unique to the table, making it in many eyes little more than a glorified PGA Tour event.
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Even if the assailant is charged, the victim is little more than a glorified witness: Survivors aren't parties to criminal law suits, and don't get to make strategic decisions.
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Soon there would be battle strategizing that somehow involved a glorified Risk board but not the guy — or whatever Bran is — who can warg into U-2 spy ravens.
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With each of these developments, the Beatles' rights holders felt the film grew more credible and worthy of the band's music, while telling a tale that glorified its work.
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The men's skis are covered in synthetic skins for better traction; working like glorified snowshoes, the skis help distribute weight in a way that avoids punching through deadly crevasses.
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Here the abundant photographs make it particularly difficult to ignore the fact that all the customers were white, or the cultural appropriation that both glorified and exoticized the locals.
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As a freelancer working at home, I was typically scattershot about such preparation, like lots of gig-economy people here who seem to live in sweats or glorified pajamas.
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By the time Vakoch reached high school in the 1970s, radio astronomy had advanced far enough to turn exosemiotics from a glorified thought experiment into something slightly more practical.
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The repertory of Orientalism rendered Muslim women passive and sensuous; indeed, European artists were infamous for their lewd fascination with the imperial harem, viewing it as a glorified brothel.
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"The European Union has publicly glorified the rioters' abuses and has flouted the Hong Kong police's self-defense measures to defend their lives against their aggressors," the embassy said.
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But now, the holiday has passed and the presents have disappeared, needles have begun to fall to the floor and the trunk has become a glorified cat-scratching post.
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They too are glorified, by politicians like President Trump and the former New York City mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg, for restoring order to American cities.
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But subsequent media reports from Beijing suggested that the group and its Chinese host argued over the list of songs, some of which glorified Mr. Kim and his nuclear weapons.
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Even though the glorified blowtorch has virtually no practical use, the Boring Company had already sold 93 thousand of them by 1 AM on Monday morning, worth about $3.5 million.
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It's basically glorified career counseling: Brooking recommends policymakers automatically enroll displaced workers in counseling, combined with job training programs, and, ideally, more robust income support (which, admittedly, would be good).
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He has consistently glorified his father's legacy, even daring to claim that the Southeast Asian country would have turned into a developed country if not for the 1986 EDSA Revolution.
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Growing up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, the one-time factory worker's ambition was to be a peasant, a "glorified" job in the eyes of Mao Zedong's communist regime.
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If Apple can't convince viewers to migrate out of third-party apps, its software will be nothing more than a glorified TV guide that's used sparingly or not at all.
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Republican lawmakers have repeatedly refused Democratic demands to request documents from his time in the latter position and argued that he served as no more than a glorified paper pusher.
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So is TLOP as great of an album as everyone thinks it is, or has our perception of West informed our glorified response to this mish-mashed collection of songs?
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Delos could replace all the CEOs, presidents, and powerful elites able to pay the $30,000-a-day fee with copies whose minds can be easily manipulated by a glorified iPad.
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Apps are really what will turn a NAS from a glorified Time Capsule into something that can make it super easy to enjoy your many files across many different devices.
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Though Olympic soccer is only a glorified under-23 tournament (with three over-age exemptions), Brazil was looking for redemption in its national sport any way it could get it.
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By all means, spend money on a quality wall charger (they're cheap!) that can provide the maximum current for your phone; just don't fall for a glorified USB meter. [Indiegogo]
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It didn't help that, soon after "Stoner" took off, the market was subsequently flooded with early recordings, semi-authorized releases, and glorified bootlegs exposing an artist still finding his way.
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Bert Lockett would play out to a mainly gay and black crowd in the venue that was little more than a glorified dive bar, dominated by a 280 feet dancefloor.
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We scoured the city for the best places to get a caffeine fix, so you don't wind up in a dark hole without internet, drinking a glorified cup of Folgers.
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They argue the AR-15-style rifle used by shooter Adam Lanza is too dangerous for the public and that Remington glorified the weapon in marketing it to young people.
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One of only two Amazon Echo devices to have a touchscreen, the Echo Spot is sleek, spherical, and basically looks like a glorified Magic 8-Ball (in a cute way).
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You can also upload your own images, so in theory, nothing is stopping you from making the EO2 a glorified selfie picture frame, but I think that misses the point.
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But — unless you're a glorified foot model or have time to indulge in a daily pedi — you may not be ready to put your feet on full display just yet.
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She manipulates a has-been actor into becoming a glorified escort and live-reenacting the bride-to-be's favorite sex scene from the TV horror movie he once starred in.
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Illegal downloads continued to thrive in the wake of these glorified show trials, and even with the rise of legitimate streaming services, peer-to-peer filesharing remained steady enough today.
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Vetements' oversized hoodies, bombers, and glorified Levi's have become so cult-like lately, that we were pretty much on our toes, waiting for what the next Leo Hoodie might be.
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And though the cats have become glorified on the internet and single women are more numerous and powerful than ever, Swift's cats Meredith and Olivia have been turned against her.
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Telecom experts told Motherboard this morning that broadband caps and overage fees don't serve any real technical purpose, and are little more than a glorified price hike on uncompetitive markets.
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Today, these collaborators — groups and individuals responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews — are being glorified and rehabilitated as part of the ultranationalism surging across Eastern Europe.
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Their lifestyles are glorified, making many of us think that life is all about working hard — just so that we can be one of the "have mores" of the world.
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For a glorified life coach who talks in self-help slogans, and whose repressed trauma apparently manifests itself as chronic diarrhea, he turns out to have a surprisingly healthy worldview.
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He viewed the images, in part, in those terms — "It's kind of cool that I'm being glorified a little bit," he said — though he hoped their impact didn't stop there.
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We were young and free and didn't care that our commutes were an hour long or that our dishwasher was a glorified drying rack — we mostly cared about Mario Kart.
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When I tell friends and family that I've taken another day off from work to spend at this glorified carnival where sensory overload and overpriced nachos reign supreme, they grimace.
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That was a public service, and it ended a more permissive era when a more timid brand of journalism glorified leaders, knowingly looking away from their personal and professional lapses.
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Instead, though they are played by recognized actors with proven ability and charisma, these characters are just glorified cameos, stomping around in heavy armor looking angry or worried or both.
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Her origin story has been endlessly tweaked; the same is true of her personality, which vacillates between extreme misandrist, feminist caricature, and a glorified girlfriend, depending on who's writing her.
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And yet they are glorified for everything, from dad bods to ugly dad pants, for cleaning up poop-covered rooms to remaining calm when their kids crash a live TV appearance.
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William Ragsdale, the head from "Herman's Head," has a glorified cameo as Brian's father, while Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, and Marv Albert have all been in much funnier, much better things.
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What used to be a glorified Walkie Talkie started to gain new features, namely a video camera that could send a real-time feed to a computer or, eventually, a smartphone.
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Incremental removal of extremists started this year with the banning of r/altright, followed on Tuesday by banning r/Physical_Removal, a community which frequently glorified Augusto Pinochet's murder of political dissidents.
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Though the robot may just be a glorified printer mixed with some fancy photo filters, aren't we all just printers operating off pre-conceived notions birthed from stimuli we can't control?
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He wants to know when his suit is going to be ready, and Winn says until the suit is done, it's a glorified Halloween costume and he'll just get himself killed.
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The company didn't even need to run a significant media campaign around what ended up being a glorified office opening because the media (BuzzFeed News included) followed the story so closely.
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Like numerous first-person shooter games that punch above their weight class, The Punisher tries to transcend its glorified violence by glazing the story with a thin sheen of social consciousness.
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The rest of the time, the crowd—who paid hundreds of dollars for tickets—watched glorified dark matches and a big screen broadcast of the fun stuff going on at Barclay's.
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This makes total sense when we think about the price and how lightweight it is, but it's still pretty shocking to see that the table is basically a glorified cardboard box.
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But the latest report adds to the skepticism that this venture likely will be nothing more than a glorified group purchasing organization and won't be as "disruptive" as many people think.
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Wearables have gotten a bad rap lately, and it's probably because of glorified pedometers like the Fitbit Blaze and Apple Watch that look dorky and don't do much beyond counting steps.
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Then, when it came time to deliver, players were met with a glorified, intergalactic rock mining "adventure" starkly lacking in some of the game's most anticipated features—notably including online play.
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But rather than a glorified exhibition, like the ones top European soccer clubs play in the summer in the United States, this will be a real league game with real repercussions.
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Predictions for the potential of artificial intelligence wax poetic — solutions from climate change to curing disease — but the everyday applications make it seem far more mundane, like a glorified clock radio.
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The opening shots of her glorified school project open with bright, postcard-worthy images of Washington's greatest landmarks, shots that are basically film student shorthand for a Small But Important Movie.
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Karate can be a rough and tumble game of bareknuckle body punching and throwing up high kicks from chest-to-chest range, or it can be a glorified game of tag.
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Before the formation of the Christian story, resurrection within Judaism was less about the rising from the dead of a specific person than about a glorified vision of a triumphant Israel.
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To defuse the threats, Mr. Bhansali, the filmmaker, privately screened the movie for a couple of India's leading right-wing television journalists, who certified that his movie indeed glorified the Rajputs.
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In society, youthfulness is glorified and getting older is cast as something to avoid, but as your age increases, your quality of life does not necessarily have to decrease, experts said.
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Wanting to participate in the 2015 All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden, he seemed to care more about a glorified exhibition than making the earliest return possible from looming surgery.
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Coming straight out of school with no prior business experience, he would have spent a couple of years as a glorified analyst, and maybe some time as a junior project manager.
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That Rose Bowl game, lost narrowly to U.S.C., was wildly entertaining but felt like little more than a glorified exhibition, an embellishment compared to what had been a gripping regular season.
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Paul Verlaine featured him in his anthology of " poètes maudits ," and J. K. Huysmans's novelistic manual of decadence, "Against the Grain," glorified him as the ne plus ultra of esoteric refinement.
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He came of age as a chef in an era that glorified French and Mediterranean cuisines, when Scandinavia (like much of the United States) barely appeared on the global culinary radar.
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"He is obligated to explain what he meant by the songs he wrote, which denigrated our nation and the free enterprise system, and often glorified pornography and drug use," Faso wrote.
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Tom Ford is speaking out after social media users went viral this week incorrectly claiming he called the first lady, Melania Trump, a "glorified escort" in a TV interview several years ago.
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Marvel didn't really incorporate this dilemma of heroic responsibility into its first slew of its movies, where the Avengers had free rein to do whatever they wanted and were glorified for it.
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And there's seemingly no end to e-juice: Walk into any smoke shop, be it a lounge, suburban warehouse, or glorified bodega, and you'll see glass cases packed with tiny glass bottles.
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As the number of partner stores dwindles, Google Shopping Express is a far cry from the Amazon killer it was heralded as in 2013, landing somewhere closer to a glorified payment processor.
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They sometimes minimize the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and refuse to acknowledge that the pantyliner they have in their underwear to catch "excess flow" is actually just a glorified menstrual pad.
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They have no wish to act as a sort of glorified social service to the 600,000-800,183 young people who would be covered each year, nor to enforce attendance on the unwilling.
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Semi-autonomous systems like Autopilot and Super Cruise are often dismissed as glorified versions of cruise control, but they're also a canary in the coal mine when it comes to full autonomy.
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A common complaint among the owners of traditional stationary window units is that much of the air flow is directed in a single direction, making these ACs rather akin to glorified fans.
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There are problems with Razer's solution: it costs $160, which is a truly great amount of money to pay for a glorified remote control (and a fair amount more than the Logitech).
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Some Bulgarians are less fond, and believe it should be demolished, arguing that it represents a painful legacy of an oppressive regime that should not be glorified after killing tens of thousands.
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If Donald Trump were a real Law and Order character, and not a glorified Idaho potato in human skin drag, he wouldn't eat his meat well done, as some sources have alleged.
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According to Facebook, the takedown has nothing to do with Jones spreading false news, but for posting content that glorified violence and used dehumanizing language to describe transgender people, Muslims, and immigrants.
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His usual duties amount to glorified coffee-fetching, but Emily has decided to crash John D'Agata's Vegas piece into the upcoming issue, which must go to the printer first thing on Monday.
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Hundreds of armed civilian guards have been deployed to protect public transportation in Jerusalem in recent months amid the wave of attacks, which have been glorified by some Palestinians on social media.
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Instead of killing Tate and her friends, in the film, the Manson murderers turn their focus on Booth and Dalton, whom they feel glorified violence by acting on a popular Western show.
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The litany of complaints include criticism about its aesthetics — some have compared its shape to that of a sex toy — and accusations that the tower is a monumental and glorified marketing tool.
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In addition to its "glorified walk-in closet" of a bedroom, Leto's pad also comes with 4-foot-thick concrete blast walls, a nuclear fallout shelter and an air-traffic-control tower.
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Powered by a virtual assistant named Alexa, you can talk to the glorified speaker to do all sorts of things, from play a Spotify playlist, to order an Uber, to ordering pizza.
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The surcharges not only act as a glorified rate hike on already expensive US broadband connections, but can deter consumers looking to ditch traditional cable TV and use streaming alternatives like Netflix.
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Like all of its Daytona forebears, it is a mechanical cosmograph that functions as both timekeeper and glorified stopwatch, with three subdials that racecar drivers can use to measure distance and speed.
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As rise of the parlors and the peep shows has empowered gangsters and corrupt cops, the pimps have turned into ineffectual middle men, glorified chauffeurs who are still demanding their nightly cut.
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"Everything we've been told about the Holocaust is a lie," Mr. Fitzgerald said last week on a radio show hosted by Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, an anti-Semitic commentator who has glorified Hitler.
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The answer lies partly in exclusive contracts and "concession fees" (long criticized as little more than glorified, legalized kickbacks) that allow the sector's biggest players to buy their way to industry dominance.
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Elizabeth Sackler, the eponymous founder of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, argues that her wing of the family shouldn't be stigmatized as glorified opioid pushers.
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So did the shows, which shared a sense of performance (no doubt a reflection of their environs) that made them feel more like proper events as opposed to a glorified trade ritual.
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"The Warriors," a cult film made in 1979, depicts New York City as an urban jungle; the film's title comes from a violent street gang that some critics thought the movie glorified.
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We talked rice whisky specifics, what it's like to be woman in a male-dominated booze industry, and why—after five years in the making—Kikori is absolutely not just a glorified sake.
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If U.S.-North Korean negotiations fail, the Trump-Kim summit will be seen as a glorified PR stunt, hyped by the media and aimed simply at boosting each leader's political standing at home.
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Screenshot: James Wootton (Decodoku)You might wonder what a quantum computer will do for video games, given that the current state-of-the-art quantum games are basically just glorified random-number generators.
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It's a glorified sparring session, a "small" three-round fight in Saitama, Japan, to show off their skills, and will not even be included on their professional records, according to the veteran American.
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Not to be confused with Sephora's "mini facials," which are really just a glorified form of in-store sampling, the Perk facial resembles a salon-grade treatment complete with a pore-sucking device.
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However, while these new tools have been getting a lot of hype lately, when it comes to their use cases, most of them are still stuck in the realm of glorified Q&As.
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That the public would respond negatively to images and recordings of children being held in glorified dog runs begging for their mothers may have caught the White House and its allies off guard.
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Like all Daytonas, the Paul Newman is a mechanical cosmograph that functions as both timekeeper and glorified stopwatch, with three subdials that can be used by racecar drivers to measure distance and speed.
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No longer just flimsy plastic pieces bolted together like glorified Legos, Pepper feels and looks like a solid humanoid, and he comes with the ability to read people's emotions and interpret voice tones.
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A young Ohio woman who's been corresponding with Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and glorified the Columbine school massacre was arrested by the feds Monday on charges of plotting a domestic terror attack.
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The city runs on a council-manager system, where the appointed city manager actually wields executive power while the mayor serves as a glorified council member and has a kind of bully pulpit.
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In addition to all the demos of skydiving and porn, people are also going to want to use their Rifts as glorified web-searching machines, which will look a little something like this.
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Charity fundraisers such as his Match for Africa series, the latest instance of which was held earlier this month ahead of the Indian Wells event, can be written off as glorified practice sessions.
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Mueller's unit began December 1968 in relative quiet, providing security for the main military base in the area, a glorified campground known as Vandegrift Combat Base, about 10 miles south of the DMZ.
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But Conner's solo stardom drove Lawrence into angry obscurity—he's now a bitter farmer in the middle of nowhere—and forced Owen to become a glorified extra in Conner's ridiculously lavish solo shows.
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The problem: nobody has provided a shred of hard evidence that the company has done anything wrong, raising the question of whether this is glorified protectionism hiding behind the banner of national security.
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"I think it unwittingly blinded our industry in some ways to looking at itself because it glorified some behaviors that, I know in the later part of his life he abhorred," Meyer continued.
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In addition, MBFG2 also has way more characters than it can handle (sorry to disappoint, but new cast additions like John Stamos and Rita Wilson — also a producer — are glorified cameos at best).
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Jefferson wanted to move our country forward; Lee became a hero of the "lost cause" version of Civil War history, which glorified our country's dark ages at a time when we needed light.
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As the company's merger ambitions bumped up against consolidation rules, Pai's office quickly moved to eliminate those restrictions, resulting in Pai's fellow Commissioners calling the agency a glorified rubber stamp for the broadcaster.
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"This doesn't sound like anything more than a glorified take-a-number kind of system, and I don't see why it has to collect your data in order to do that," Rizvi said.
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As cars become more like glorified computers, automakers are standardizing many mechanical parts and competing more on style and packaging - giving drivers a bigger range of features from automated parking to cockpit concierges.
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The Cozy, which Mr. Cox has described as a "glorified oven mitt" and which is being sold on a limited basis, went on to win a $2181,22012 M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize in 2126.
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He recalls their White House meetings in tense, cinematic terms -- the upright G-man, bound to "a higher loyalty," facing off with a glorified mafia boss in ruthless pursuit of fealty and favors.
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The "business development representatives," who were really glorified telemarketers, were paid around $3,000 a month, which works out to $18.75 per hour, if you work 40 hours a week, though many worked more.
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What that means is that for the first time in her 17-year career, she's going on a press tour and being treated as a serious, talented actress and not a glorified model.
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Even if Greek Life was abolished and replaced, that alone would not rid a university of the misogyny, racism, and classism tied to it, nor its glorified party culture that often goes awry.
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" He'll school us all in regret and forgiveness with Lennon homage "Here Today," then insist "Now let's have some fun!" before jumping into the glorified children's song that is 2013's "Queenie Eye.
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I did say that he is obligated to explain what he meant by the songs he wrote, which denigrated our nation and the free enterprise system, and often glorified pornography and drug use.
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But there are plenty of other ways for journalists, documentarians, and storytellers to push back against a glorified narrative of a predator — and they're equally important to creating a balanced, fully realized counternarrative.
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But as the seventh hurricane season since then approaches, the city is relying on something more modest as the first line of defense against another inundation of Manhattan: a row of glorified sandbags.
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For many Americans, Australian wines were epitomized either by cheap commodities like Yellow Tail, which sold by the millions, or jammy, alcoholic blockbusters, which were glorified by critics doling out 20083-point scores.
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The general hope ahead of the opening tip was that these two teams would be capable of reviving the playoffs, which had been mostly a glorified snooze-fest through the first three rounds.
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Shostakovich took up the call in his "Song of the Forests" from 1949, an oratorio that glorified Soviet forestation campaigns in Siberia through pleasing, triumphant harmonies and an easy-to-understand text setting.
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But we're not coming to Ghosted for heartwarming moments—we're coming to jump from our seats at every twist and turn of this very serious, very suspenseful glorified social media stalking rabbit hole.
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Two opposition lawmakers on Thursday submitted a draft bill to parliament that would prohibit the media from publishing the identities and photographs of militant attackers to prevent their names being glorified in death.
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As far as Bryan's concerned, Kim's doing a good thing by using her platform to bring attention to these cases ... but he stops short of saying she's a glorified savior of any kind.
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Perhaps the most storied of these devices is the sous vide, a glorified immersion heater that keeps water at a precise temperature in order to evenly cook foods, usually meats in vacuum-sealed bags.
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The house is a glorified shipping container with six amps and a toilet, located on a beach where I spend as much of the spring, summer, and fall as I can with my family.
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While Uber and Lyft now have a glorified monopoly on intracity transportation, there is still a need for a safe, reliable transportation option that can disrupt longer distance trip providers like Greyhound and Amtrak.
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He doesn't notice he starts treating his "partner" Marcus like a glorified valet, demanding the Black man gets his Scotch when he asks and low-key requiring him to keep track of his cufflinks.
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Hampered by evolving hardware and a medium with no set rules or audience expectations, most virtual reality experiences come off as either glorified tech demos, or simulacra of other, more established types of content.
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No longer beholden to the synthesized pop that was glorified in the year 2000, they were able to showcase their musical chops, from Taylor's playfulness on the piano to their polished a capella harmonization.
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As it stands, however, Edge Sense is really much more than a glorified button with the addition of an actual new physical button like Samsung did with the devoted Bixby key on the S8.
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For the immediate future, let's accept that we're already fucked, and discuss ways to prevent our cities from becoming glorified fish bowls so we can save populations most at risk from these weather events.
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They'll shake their heads about how unfair it is to lose a player in what's really just a glorified exhibition game, and wonder whether Doug Wilson was right about putting your NHL team first.
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Update, June 25, 2016: Still pining for Rihanna's faux-fur glorified shower slides from Fenty, her Puma line that's caused a minor frenzy with each sold-out drop of a new style or color?
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There are glorified IR blaster solutions, but that seems like a step in the wrong direction and even clunkier than the outlet option (even if it means not having to replace my window unit).
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Escobar asks his lawyer/glorified messenger, Fernando Duque, to inform President Gaviria that he's willing to finish off his sentence as planned at La Catedral if they will give up the manhunt for him.
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It involves an "experiment" which is basically just a glorified prank: offer to charge Londoners' phones, swap the phone for a replica, and then delete the data on the new phone pretending it's theirs.
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It glorified the role of rural peasants in German society: Those with a long family history in Germany (blood) and who tended to the land (soil) played a key role in supporting the state.
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The brand has long offered more than just the skintone bodysuits and glorified bike shorts that are most traditionally synonymous with shapewear, like its wondrously rip-proof opaque black tights or celeb-vetted leggings.
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What Trump held up was Jewel of Palm Beach, a glossy, glorified sales brochure that's put out once a year and distributed at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach resort, and other Trump properties.
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Protesters also chanted "blood and soil" -- an English translation of the Nazi slogan "Blut und Boden," which glorified rural living and held that only blood descent can entitle individuals to belonging in the nation.
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Once described by The New York Times as "a writer of fairly engaging and preposterous claptrap," there has been a long-standing discussion on whether King's works are really literature or just glorified pulp.
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Drake Baer talked to experts who explained an all-too familiar dynamic: a leader who is glorified to the point of excess, and their startup becomes something of a "new religious movement" — a cult.
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The Phillies, though, had been losing 90 to 100 games a year going back to the 1910s and had barely functioned even as a glorified farm team for the rest of the National League.
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None of these are "ideal" directions, and while the language of hip-hop may often offend, it also has the power to silence detractors who call the literature prize a glorified second peace prize.
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The more I communicated with my closeted pen pals—with their recurring themes of guilty trysts, secret identities, and desperate remorse—the more I felt my glorified recollections of the closet slipping away altogether.
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The movie, released in 1970 and reissued on Blu-ray, received an unexpected boost when the president, Richard M. Nixon, praised it as an antidote to the forces that he believed glorified Charles Manson.
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Business Insider spoke with experts who explained an all-too familiar dynamic: a leader who is glorified to the point of excess, and their startup becomes something of a "new religious movement" — a cult.
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While this theory has gone particularly viral, there are just as many videos (often using the Green Screen effect, which turns the whole thing into a glorified PowerPoint presentation) that lay out other suspicions.
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For home cooks, fried rice is typically glorified leftovers, less a matter of recipe than frugal housekeeping, using up the odds and ends in a kitchen, seeing to it that nothing goes to waste.
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According to a report published on another social media platform, WeChat, the participants complained that the film excessively glorified the Republic of China, then led by Chiang Kai-shek and his party, the Kuomintang.
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As a cast member, I often had to sell people on the Animal Kingdom when they thought it was a glorified zoo or convince others that Hollywood Studios did actually have rides for kids.
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But they describe themselves as ultracompetitive, and as they attempted another foray into mixed doubles, they found their matches together were little more than glorified grease fires — just like when they were growing up.
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The boat left from the Baltra harbor, so it was back on the bus, across on the glorified raft, then into a dinghy, which took me and the group to a perfectly serviceable motorboat.
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It was still the Obama era when Hulu pursued the property two years ago, as part of a strategy to broaden its identity from a glorified video recorder to a producer of original programming.
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I call myself a glorified babysitter because my team of 20 and I have to schedule everything, even when talent go to the bathroom, in order to make sure a junket day goes smoothly.
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These trucks are equipped with hardware, software and an array of sensors developed by Uber's Advanced Technologies Group that help the truck make what amounts to a glorified cruise-control run across the state.
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This is just glorified fuck machine for boys that some dude made in his garage, and even if it doesn't injure your genitals, at the very least it will injure your notion of self-worth.
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The bold, chic lead on Shonda Rhimes' sexy D.C. drama has long been glorified with GIFs and memes — think Pope's signature "It's handled," her iconic (metaphorical) white hat, and the always-inspiring hypothetical question, WWOPD?
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"The problem with Facebook's entire 'news team' is that they're glorified client services people," the head of digital operations at a major news outlet told Mashable at F8, the company's annual developer conference in April.
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When we heard Hasbro was working with Blizzard Entertainment to bring our favorite Overwatch characters' guns into the real world as foam-slinging blasters, we were tentatively excited — only to find they were glorified props.
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The Mac hasn't quite turned into a glorified iPhone accessory just yet, but it's no longer the favored child of Apple, which dropped "Computer" from its name in 2007 just as the iPod was peaking.
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It can be fitted with a range of different tools, including a foam insulation gun, a welding attachment, a "thermoplastic extruder" that squirts out melted plastic, a glorified squirt gun, and even a simple bucket.
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Xbox Live eventually got Halo: Nightfall out of the deal, but in spite of the pedigree of being executive produced by Ridley Scott, that project was ultimately received as nothing more than a glorified webseries.
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Gauck, a former rights activist in East Germany, said his former country's propaganda "glorified" it as the better of the two Germanies, according to an English transcript of his comments issued on his office's website.
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It's bringing Progressive Web Apps (not to be confused with Universal Windows Platform apps, many of which are glorified websites) to Windows 10 with a new version of Edge that supports the necessary web technologies.
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"The problem with Facebook's entire 'news team' is that they're glorified client services people," an attendee at Facebook's F8 conference who works on the digital side of a major news publisher told Mashable in April.
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Rather, they engaged in glorified guesswork: You typed a few keywords into the Google search bar, and the company's PageRank system returned a long list of statistically backed conjectures about what you wanted to know.
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The internet's always worked this way, but in the past decade, the issue's become a major concern for internet advocates worried about powerful business interests turning the web into a glorified version of cable television.
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To the uninitiated, a gimbal is basically a glorified selfie stick, except that instead of just helping you take better pictures of yourself, it also stabilizes your device so you can capture crystal-clear footage.
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But the author also offers a corrective to later Indian accounts that have exaggerated the strength of pro-independence feeling and glorified the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, made up of Indian POWs and defectors.
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Saudi Arabia paid the promotion a purported $40-50 million in an effort to show how modern Vision 2030 was, with the cash concentrated around a gaudy, glorified house show called The Greatest Royal Rumble.
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Amber made an interesting point ... she knows she'll be judged harshly by some, but points out the double standard ... people like Jay-Z, Jeezy, Pusha T and 50 Cent often get glorified for their dealings.
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She characterized one of Mr. Slager's wounds, cited by his lawyers as evidence of a life-threatening struggle, as "a glorified paper cut," and she hailed the role that video had played in the case.
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But it's easy to build ratings if you are a glorified Court TV, if each whiff of scandal smoke generates hours of "Breaking News" intensity and a deluge of speculation from good-looking former prosecutors.
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If you are not in the mood to frost and decorate this savory carrot cake, cut it in wedges, call it glorified cornbread and serve it alongside whatever you're having for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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That has left the Warriors (6-24) often looking like a glorified G League team, while the Rockets (20-9), thanks to sensational play from James Harden, have the third-best record in the West.
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He spent three months living in a "transit zone" along the Hungarian border — a glorified detention center for migrants that forbade him from contacting his family and friends — before crossing the border in April 2017.
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"It's very reminiscent of how I started out," he explained to reporters at Hockenheim, whose present layout has been likened to a glorified go-kart track by those who miss the bygone blast through the forest.
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This isn't the first time we've heard these rumors about Apple chucking Intel and turning MacBooks into glorified iPads, but Gurman is notorious for his sources within Apple and information leaked to him is often correct.
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Dry seasons normally don't phase people from Madagascar, known as Malagasy, but a drought that began two years ago has reduced rivers like the Mandrare to glorified puddles, resulting in failed crops and severe acute malnutrition.
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Mr. Trump has made clear he likes things this way; he can exert greater control over what amounts to glorified temp workers, and he doesn't have to bother with obtaining the Senate's approval of his appointees.
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Serena is good at this — even though I am horrified by her sentiment, I'm also horrified that she has been reduced to a life of glorified lounging in a blue dress after all that monumental galvanizing.
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Aside from finding it mildly infuriating to see everything you love being stamped with a glorified horse's face across every social-media platform available, there are actually real-life disastrous consequences tied to the unicorn phenomenon.
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For many, Destiny had become a glorified chat room, a way to catch up with one another, even if what they were doing amounted to little more than grinding for loot day in and day out.
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"It's easy to build ratings if you are a glorified Court TV, if each whiff of scandal smoke generates hours of 'Breaking News' intensity and a deluge of speculation from good-looking former prosecutors," Brooks said.
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Bad News Bears also sexualizes Morris Buttermaker in a way that absolutely no one asked for, turning him into a Hooters-lovin' galavant with a harem of buxom glorified extras waiting around to cheer him on.
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Much larger companies with vastly larger resources are pursuing the exact same thing and they're all basically telling these bot makes not to bother, to just make dumb bots that are little more than glorified APIs.
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What this glorified chest-cold isn't and never was is any sort of tip off or alarm that Clinton is anything but a person whose body and immune system has been under months of constant stress.
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In this misogynistic age where rough sex and abuse is glorified in songs and movies, there is still a place for, passionate man who believes in making love rather than just engaging in a sex act.
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KEN DEROW Swarthmore, Pa. To the Editor: As we celebrate the life of Muhammad Ali, an illustrious athlete, I hope the "sport" in which he participated, and which crippled him, will not be extolled or glorified.
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Bannon's capacity for triggering opponents and befuddling neutral observers with slickly argued but intellectually disingenuous rhetoric is now, in his capacity as a kind of glorified freelance political operative, the most effective element of his act.
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In recent years, a Berkeley, California business man managed to defraud clients of $45 million worth of wine futures, most of which he spent on cars and women, in what was essentially a glorified pyramid scheme.
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But more than that, Mr. Xi's story embodies the authoritarian values he wants to restore in China — a "red-brown" melding of Communist revivalism and earthy nationalism rooted in a glorified rendering of China's ancient past.
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It preys especially on less prestigious schools and contributes to the system's deepening divide into a narrow tier of elite institutions primarily serving the rich and a vast landscape of glorified trade schools for everyone else.
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In art history, men made paintings of mythical and biblical rapes — of Europa and the Sabines, for example — that glorified and aestheticized sexual violence, with the women shown as nude, erotic objects, sometimes coy and smiling.
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Campsite-friendly footwear is seemingly everywhere this winter, in iterations ranging from trek-worthy, snow-proof boots finished in quilted patterns to glorified inflated socks meant to function as actual miniature sleep sacks for your foot.
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Unlike the current state of Google Stadia, you won't have to invest in $130 worth of hardware just to try out a glorified beta, then buy your games again, wondering when Google's free tier might arrive.
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" The new streamlined complaint instead focuses solely on Remington's allegedly "militaristic marketing" of the AR-15, which, according to plaintiffs, "glorified the lone gunman," targeted high-risk users and "promoted (the rifle) for mass casualty assaults.
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" The 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" glorified the KKK and the Confederacy, and President Woodrow Wilson, who segregated the federal government, screened it at the White House, declaring, "It's like writing history with lightning.
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As a glorified transcription of recorded dialogues, some of which are missing and some of which feature obscured audio, Literature Class decenters Cortázar's voice and rejects the idea of the text as a fully enclosed object.
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At £7 each and considering that you have to travel to Dalston, north-west Wales or Newcastle to drink one, I don't think these glorified milkshakes pose a serious threat to the health of the nation.
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This is no glorified game of fetch, either—dogs' heightened sense of smell makes them ideal for sniffing out precious fungi and last year, the largest truffle ever seen at auction was discovered by a dog.
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Both had been relegated to the wasteland known as the Red Zone, where Elena's brother (Eddie Ramos) still resides, and which Elena only escaped by becoming a kind of glorified escort/sex slave for the super-rich.
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There's an argument to be made that at least these movies have openly gay characters at all, since we know how rare that is, but we should aim higher than just using these roles as glorified props.
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Photo: Cliff Owen (AP)Amazon has finally confirmed that Long Island City, Queens, and the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, have both earned the dubious honor of hosting glorified branch offices for the e-commerce giant.
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Earlier this month, after a fierce online backlash, Valve decided to remove the Steam page for an in-development game that glorified rape and violence against women, saying that distributing the game posed "unknown costs and risks."
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Plaintiffs say that Remington, the gun company, manufactured a weapon that's too dangerous for civilian use, and then glorified it through aggressive marketing, which made it attractive to the 20-year-old Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza.
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"For the past twelve years, the Kirchner governments have glorified the armed struggle of the guerrillas," said Victoria Villarruel, a 40-year-old lawyer who is the best-known figure demanding justice for victims of the rebels.
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When it comes to Seattle's Lenin in particular, though, any question of whether he is being improperly glorified can be answered with a simple gesture toward the appendage currently pointing out of the top of his head.
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A former Citigroup financial adviser on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing the bank of running a "boys' club" that favored men over women, treating her as a "glorified secretary," and firing her in retaliation for whistleblowing activity.
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If you don't even have time to put those together, keep fruit or protein bars on hand (just make sure they're good ones, as there are nourishing protein bars and those that are essentially glorified chocolate bars).
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And while those energy drink conglomerates have spent millions of dollars sponsoring contests, skate parks, and individual skaters, they weren't born from skateboarding and their end goal has always been to promote the consumption of glorified sodas.
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It's not totally a farce, but it's kind of a farce—the games themselves are glorified scrimmages, but given that they're played by 6.53 of the world's best basketball players, there's plenty of entertainment to be found.
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Those exist, and Manchester has staples like Selective Hearing – a series of meticulously planned warehouse raves— a lot less official and a lot more lawless than most club nights, but by no means a glorified house party.
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The guys on my teams in the past have struggled with how they are perceived by others for competing (even though in many ways one of their main jobs on the team is glorified weightlifting – pretty masculine).
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Sometimes the classical composition is used mostly as a glorified intro to the song, as if we were in a stadium waiting for the entrance of a band with delusions of grandeur and a Carl Orff fetish.
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In these works, she co-opts the totemic or atavistic appeal made by proto-fascist art — think of Arno Breker's glorified statues of Hitler's thugs — and she humanizes that menace through expressive beauty and a tapered elegance.
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In a groundbreaking 1993 study, Margaret Bose points out that in his early modern poetics of love, Petrarch himself writes a war-inciting poem, castigating the crude Germans across the Alps in contrast to the glorified Italians.
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"Most people see it as glorified babysitting," said Robert Espinoza, vice president for policy at PHI, an advocacy group for personal care workers that also develops advanced training curriculums to improve the quality of the work force.
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As the N.B.A. edges toward its conference finals, the playoffs are again shaping up as a glorified stage for the Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, who have combined for 15 wins (and counting) without a loss.
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Many major ISPs have suspended usage caps and overage fees in response to COVID-19, after critics complained that such restrictions don't actually help manage congestion—and are little more than glorified price hikes on uncompetitive markets.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's highest court overturned the acquittals of two officials from the country's biggest Islamic religious group and rejected a third's appeal of his conviction, in a case over videos that prosecutors say illegally glorified violence.
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It glorified that insurrection by recalling the Revolutionary War and our forefathers' fight for freedom, as well as the "militias" that formed the basis of the Second Amendment — which many of Trump's supporters are big fans of.
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Whether you consider Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died of natural causes at age 2100 last night, as an iconic visionary, a glorified sexist, or a nuanced persona who defies labels, he has left behind a giant empire.
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Men aren't just given the majority of opportunities in cinema, but are rewarded for making films in a way that reinforces their power and control in society, which we see in the way authoritarian filmmaking itself is glorified.
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There's a major distinction in this case because while a single home-run can be glorified the fund level impact can be insignificant due to the size of the bet, another common scenario we see in traditional venture.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans authorities dismantled a statue honoring president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis amid cries by protesters waving Confederate flags and cheers from a group that said the monument glorified racism in the U.S. South.
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To be a fan of Wolverine in these films is to suspend your belief that Logan — a man with anger issues and a big ol' lawnmower for a body — is a hero and not just a glorified butcher.
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Mindtribe seems to disagree with the perception that the Switch is basically a glorified tablet, and while we're not entirely in agreement in that regard, we can say the Tegra chip does have some impressive graphics processing power.
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The Department of Justice has already filed a motion in support of the FBI in this case, dismissing Mr Cook's rhetoric as glorified marketing to help the firm sell more iPhones to customers who care about privacy issues.
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What started off as a glorified hike turned into a mushroom hunt that yielded what Leboe and Cooper figured was about six pounds of golden-orange chanterelles, something they would have paid a pretty penny for back home.
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The second generation doesn't make it an essential feature, but some key additions point to how more sensors on the sides of the handset could turn it into more than just a glorified additional button for the phone.
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No, they're not glorified microwaves — many people back halogen ovens specifically for their ability to surround and cook food the whole way through, and the extra light to keep an eye on your food is pretty helpful, too.
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The peculiar geography and climate of Mesopotamia led in the early third millennium B.C. to the formation of the first great agglomerations of people — sprawling cities at a time when the Mediterranean world could boast only glorified villages.
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On Thursday's episode, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero went on a virtual tour of a Chinese sex-bot factory, where they watched how these glorified fleshlights with anime-inspired facial movements come to life—pubes and all.
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"Squad" directed by David Ayer, grossed $746 million but was panned by critics in large part because Leto's character was used to hype the film, but his final role was considered by many to be a glorified cameo.
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Many contractors employed in gig-economy–type jobs lack health care and retirement benefits, are at the mercy of their employers' scheduling needs and — despite being promised so much freedom — find themselves little more than glorified service workers.
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After the retro mini console successes of the SNES and NES Classic systems, PlayStation went and put all of my favorite original PlayStation games on a glorified USB stick and housed it in some cute mini-console packaging.
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Tesla proved that EVs could be more than glorified golf carts when it rolled out its sexy original Roadster, and the Performance trim of the Model S can be configured to outrun supercars from zero to 60 mph.
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After all, in June, Barkley's No. 26 was the best-selling jersey in the N.F.L. This was before one of the team's owners, John Mara, called him the most glorified rookie the franchise has had since Lawrence Taylor.
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Even so, Fizdale has never considered sending Knox to Westchester to work on his game in the anonymity of the G League "because our team was already like a glorified G League team," Fizdale told reporters last week.
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She alludes matter-of-factly to her time as a glorified child slave, neglected and unloved and so lonely that her only friends are her own reflection in a glass door and the echo of her own voice.
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On a historic street that has gentrified into a glorified food court, complete with identical looking sushi restaurants and smoke shops, Fun City Tattoo stands as one of Saint Mark's' last true relics that continues to shape American culture.
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Video: Roger Easton Jr./YouTube/fourier9 For those of you who don't know, Project Vanguard was the first US scientific program to launch an orbiting artificial satellite (as it was known then—often glorified as a "man-made moon").
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In Tarantino's world, violence is glorified as the supreme way to topple systems of oppression; they don't examine the struggles of victims who choose to move on, who heal themselves from within, versus healing by chopping someone's head off.
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Citigroup — Citi was sued by formerly financial adviser Erin Daly, who accused the bank of running a "boys club" that favors men over women and treating her as a "glorified secretary" before firing her in retaliation for whistleblowing activity.
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Image: GettyThe endangered black-footed ferret is dying out due to a plague, and the government has a solution: Call in a "glorified gumball machine" attached to a drone to dispense M&Ms smeared in vaccine-covered peanut butter.
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Because Sims had performed experimental surgeries on female slaves, an arts commission empowered with determining whether public sculptures were still deserving of display had determined that he should no longer be glorified, despite the advancements he furthered in medicine.
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It's 1962, and Tony -- basically a glorified bouncer at the Copacabana in New York, well connected among the shady swells who frequent the joint -- needs a gig to tide him over financially while the club is closed for repairs.
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While you shouldn't completely change your research based on one performance in a glorified scrimmage, the preseason can provide hints as to which players might be worth reaching a round or two early for and which should be avoided.
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With opposing pass rushes neutralized by 1,600 pounds of shove-back, the Cowboys' offense plays a glorified seven-on-seven practice drill — and the offense always wins when the other guys cannot touch anyone south of the scrimmage line.
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Where else could you have your ears pierced with a glorified staple gun, challenge strangers to Street Fighter matches in dim arcades, consume untold quantities of Orange Julius and brood over low-rise jeans in department-store fitting rooms?
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Were Trump to give away leverage of his visit for a glorified photo op and fail to secure a pledge beforehand for verifiable denuclearization by Kim, the meeting would be widely portrayed as a failure crushing to US credibility.
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A multipart journey ensued: An overheated and ancient bus jolted me to the southern end of Baltra island, where I caught a glorified raft across the half-mile channel, then took another bus, for another dollar, to Puerto Ayora.
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For the skateboarding world, which for years has glorified disputes with security guards, the confrontation has resulted in collective soul-searching at a crucial moment, just a year before the sport's Olympic debut at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
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Rather than first releasing models at low price points, as other automakers tended to do, it began with high-end models that fundamentally changed the perception of electric cars as glorified golf carts with short range and slow acceleration.
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The newly minted MacArthur genius teaches "interdisciplinary creativity" at the University of Wisconsin, and this slim volume — mimicking the feel of the composition notebooks that she requires her students to keep — initially appears to be a glorified lesson plan.
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"People see us on TV in our black suits and think we're glorified bouncers," the Whitfield character says early in the film, but, as the movie goes on to show, they were far more: friends, confidants, witnesses to weirdness.
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I know that invoking that term is going to touch off a wave of groans from people who, every election cycle, read countless pieces of glorified politics fanfic from pundits predicting brokered conventions that simply do not happen anymore.
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The company's new, much smaller stores don't actually fully stock toys; they're just glorified showrooms where customers peruse preferred brands before buying them online at the Toys "R" Us website—the logistics of which are actually managed by Target.
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Republicans are expected to paint Democrats' impeachment effort as a glorified policy disagreement with the president — an effort to oust a leader they simply disagree with, rather than one who has committed high crimes that warrant removal from office.
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So called, 5 AM Club was over glorified in the last couple of years, but waking up early doesn't mean waking up at 230 AM. I am not saying you cannot do it, but I am saying that maybe you shouldn't.
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Whether it's being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the quarterback of a major football team, we've always glorified leadership skills -- which is why there is no shortage of self-help articles explaining how to achieve such high status.
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"Surprisingly enough, many of the supportive comments come from obese people themselves who told me they do not agree with how far the fat acceptance movement has gone and that they also think morbid obesity should not be glorified," Cheng said.
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But right now, the only difference between Apple's position today and where it was a year ago is its new glorified TV guide, one consumers will wish was more capable and forward-thinking than the cable companies will let it be.
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"Look, the only reason I'm even here is to promote Deadpool, which is now out on Blu-Ray and DVD, blah, blah, blah, like anyone still f—ing buys those glorified f—ing drink coasters," Reynolds says while suited up.
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Many market analysts believe that the addition of LTE connections will finally convince consumers that wearables are worth their time (and more importantly, money), giving them the ability to use their devices as more than a glorified extension of their smartphone.
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Many will say that the group phase is little more than a glorified preliminary, and that the real stuff gets undwerway when the field has been reduced to 32 – a splendid number – who then meet in a straight knockout format.
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"When people are like, 'I hope Hannah and Adam end up together, they're such a perfect couple,' I worry that I've like glorified the relationships that destroyed me in my early 20s," Dunham said at a panel in New York City.
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This time, it's Sergey Brin — but instead of glorified water speeders flying cars, like the Larry Page-funded Kitty Hawk Flyer unveiled earlier this week, he'll reportedly opt for something a bit more extravagant for his airborne transportation: a massive airship.
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The cloud effectively runs the game, and the client becomes something akin to a more generalized Quake 3 client, being a glorified geometry processor with very minimal code to support processing local input in order to minimize the perception of latency.
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The proposed solution takes a middle course in trying to appeal to the statue's opponents, who say it glorified the Confederacy's support of slavery, while also accommodating those who see the statue as remembering a key part of the university's history.
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Though he was Trump's top aide, Lewandowski was viewed by some political observers in Washington as a glorified body man — he seldom left the candidate's side, and he lacked the blue-chip credentials usually characteristic of front-running campaign strategists.
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Whatever the reason, training for underground warfare is going ahead here, where partisans are still glorified for fighting the Nazis and Soviets in World War II. "The guerrilla activity should start on occupied territory straight after the invasion," General Kiili said.
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After speaking with Yeti's representatives, I learned that they build and test their coolers for conditions and abuse they'll likely never see, which is why I'm so confidently able to recommend what seems to be an extortionately-priced, over-glorified lunchbox.
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"My parents spend a lot of time traveling, so they're nice enough to let my girlfriend and I stay as glorified house sitters," said Matt FX, whose full name is Matt FX Feldman (and who is no longer with his girlfriend).
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There's an irony in our current president's declaration that Mexicans are bringing drugs into this country, even as many states move toward legalization and as the former speaker of the House, John Boehner, transitions from politician to glorified drug dealer.
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Over the centuries, they have moved from the aristocratic courts, where they glorified the rulers, to the piazzas, spinning tales over a handful of melodies, said Gian Paolo Borghi, an ethnographer and vice president of Italy's national association of cantastorie.
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Three times cursed are the dead Jews of the old Communist bloc: gunned down outside their towns and villages, ignored and whitewashed by the Soviet Union, and now, their killers glorified by the resurging nationalism of today's Eastern European governments.
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"If I came in there and it's just quiet – it's like a glorified scrimmage – I'm not trying to do that," Wagner said, adding the "response to the virus" has caused him to use the "fist-bump" when interacting with fans.
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The Delos recovery team had consistently treated the head of security at Westworld like a glorified mall cop, but by allowing Dolores-as-Charlotte to leave the park, he seems knowingly to have extended the host uprising to the mainland.
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Some may argue that it's unfair to equate a fictional character to real-life terrorists or that it shouldn't be the responsibility of a filmmaker to make only safe art that can never be misinterpreted or glorified by violent people.
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Netflix's The Letter to the King might seem from its title like a glorified story of snail mail, but fans of Tonke Dragt's bestselling novel know there is far more to the story of Tiuri (Amir Wilson) and his royal quest.
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"(The show) made the emperor lifestyle's fashionable and something to strive for, polluted modern society with the concubine's back-stabbing mentality, beautified imperial China while ignoring the heroes of today, glorified luxury while attacking thriftiness and hard work," the newspaper said.
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Mulvaney isn't a glorified body man who simply wants to orbit the president, nor does he think his job is to act as a "check" because of a grossly mistaken belief that a modern chief of staff drives the agenda.
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" She went on to write, "I never glorified the things I brought up in that live [sic]I never even put those things in my music because I'm not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it.
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Van Vleuten was deposed as world time trial champion by American powerhouse Chloe Dygert on Tuesday, but she put that bronze-medal disappointment behind her in audacious fashion on Saturday, effectively turning the 149km race into a glorified time trial.
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Google has spent the past few months retroactively revealing that early adopters who paid $130 are buying into a glorified beta test — with few games, many missing features, and a wireless controller that requires a wire on phones and PCs.
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I'm getting tired of this shit because there's a lot of motherfuckers who get glorified through this rap shit, and it's like y'all should feel like this is an obligation if you're a part of hip-hop culture, period point blank.
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First, there's the pleasant bit of fluff that is Madeline Kahn's gossip columnist character getting seduced by Fabio (LOL 1995), which is a glorified excuse to give Kahn a chance to go full-on camp with her already oversize performance.
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But Google showed Wednesday that for Assistant to reach its true potential, and to realistically gain an edge over Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and the rest of its smart-assistant competition, it can't rely on third-party partners, or glorified reference models.
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