Like poking at a bruise just to feel it hurt.
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Mulaney deflected, instantly aware of what Fox was poking at.
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"They weren't just poking at Five Points," Ms. Wright said.
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A reporter might have thought he was poking at the coach.
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"If somebody keeps poking at you … you're eventually gonna pop," she said.
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A few koi idled there, poking at the surface for the scraps.
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It basically involved her just poking at me, but it felt nice?
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The cold open started by poking at the intense focus on Clinton's emails.
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That's the basis for why we, at least, are poking at this so hard.
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"They are poking at FACE laws to see what holds," says activist and author Marty.
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A relatively new programmer was poking at Age of Reckoning's code, and noticed something strange.
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But don't assume that we won't re-escalate if you, Iran, keep poking at us.
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Time heals all wounds — but what happens if you can't stop poking at those wounds?
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That effort was thwarted when two men who comfortably fit the stereotype of young hustlers on Planet Start-Up approached her desk, sat on it and began a vaguely menacing flirtation — poking at her computer, reading what was on the screen, poking at her.
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They were seen making calls, poking at him and attempting to pry his clenched fists apart.
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I've played a dead body, with the players poking at me, and then reanimated on them.
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Poking at Europe's belly and finding it soft, China is testing how far it can push.
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They show close-ups of her sexual organs and use vulgar language while poking at her.
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Reporter Angela Chen spent the better part of the afternoon repeatedly poking at her own eyes.
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"Poking at a wound in that way is not going to make it better," she says.
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She's a steady presence at the center of these things that just keep poking at her.
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New tech industry satire The Circle seems to be poking at least a little bit at Uber.
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"Drive-by shooting, I suppose," Lowe said, poking at the hole, no bigger than a shirt button.
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"I know the guys at Goldman Sachs," Mr. Trump said during one debate, poking at Mr. Cruz.
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I hunted around this tiny-screen world of black and white, poking at the membrane of her brain.
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We process the world, compulsively, through our pocket cameras, pinching and poking at the footage on our screens.
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Poking at things with your real digits is a lot more intuitive than relying on a proprietary controller.
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The situation amounts to a new kind of terrorism that goes beyond poking at wealthy corporations and powerful politicians.
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Celebrity aesthetician Renée Rouleau sells a toy that busies your hands and prevents you from poking at your face.
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Wearing a teal hat and orange waders and elbow-length gloves, she walks around the whale, poking at it.
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A game like Super Mario World came loaded with secret areas, encouraging you to keep poking at its edges.
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Again, PUSHA is a king at poking at buttons but also is gifted with the instinct to give pause.
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And so we keep poking at those unsinkable dresses, hoping to find the submerged woman who once wore them.
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He has attacked the league mercilessly, poking at Mr. Goodell and taking glee in the league's television ratings falling.
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Outside of poking at a DS game or two and walking away, my time with Link happened on consoles.
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"I suspect if you keep poking at the economic expansion, it could turn around and bite you," Mr. Obstfeld said.
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Your tablet-obsessed kid spending hours on the couch poking at a touchscreen probably isn't doing their waistline any favors.
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The election, it said, has taxed the limits of typical election comedy, of he-said, she-said poking at foibles.
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Yet the days of poking at a physical button as a key crux of mobile computing do now look numbered.
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I was that kid, the one you'd find chasing snakes or poking at jellyfish that washed up on the beach.
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While foreign dollars have long backed venture capital funds, overseas investors are gingerly poking at directly investing in startups, too.
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And so, some of these things are about poking at things that are taboo that might actually make you better.
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Jonty said, "Just take a bite for Daddy," to his daughter, poking at her face with a spoonful of potato.
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But just as often, it's practically the opposite, a fundamentally random process of poking at a machine and watching what happens.
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This episode did a great job of poking at the questions inherent in every relationship, which are exacerbated by online dating.
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Why It Will Happen: You can start poking at Kansas's résumé more easily than is typical of a second overall team.
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"This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other," Buttigieg said.
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We're poking at the artificial intelligence beast, taking a closer look at digital health, and questioning how tech impacts the human experience.
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Contrast that to the iPad alternative: seconds spent poking at the screen with your clumsy finger, hoping iOS will discern your intent.
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Resistive screens, which work by detecting simple pressure, are fine enough for poking at icons, but not great for swiping and scrolling.
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Through the lens of a rosy comedy, this series snuck through a hole in the wall, poking at wounds I cautiously protect.
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Looks like the Skarsgårds are used to poking at each other's egos, lest they over inflate and float away like — oof, never mind.
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It's nearly impossible not to take someone's words to heart, especially when they're poking at the very thing that you're already insecure about.
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These characters have spent five seasons poking at our biases about the Soviet Union, and now they're being made to do the same.
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"He felt the mass in my face, he was just kind of poking at it and I was wincing in pain," Powell recalls.
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By poking fun, they were simultaneously poking at a wound, exposing the ugliness around border politics, and even educating people in the process.
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For it's not just Maggie who keeps poking at Brick's sore spots, which include too tender memories of his dead best buddy, Skipper.
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As they smiled for photos, Depp, 52, was seen reaching under Cohen's jacket and poking at his stomach and chest during the comical exchange.
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And it's just a shoe — it makes more sense to get rid of it than to risk poking at historical wounds for no reason.
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Perhaps, finally, wondering whether or not someone might be gay or bi doesn't have to be treated like we're poking at some shameful secret.
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"I would hope he is headed where there are a few people poking at him with pitchforks that are kind of hot," she says.
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If you're willing to sit around poking at your phone settings, there are a million photo apps that'll help you get professional-looking results.
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It's something I've spent years poking at with Thobey and Motherboard's founding editor Alex Pasternack, along with everyone else who's passed through the site.
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That year, the company conducted a study of more than 3,500 hundred men in 10 countries, poking at conceptions of masculinity and self-esteem.
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A certain kind of comedy survives basically on transgression, and the transgression is only funny if it seems to be poking at something that's true.
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Losing weight is hard when it seems like you'll spend every day of the rest of your life deprived, poking at oatmeal and steamed broccoli.
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Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch): The Touch Bar's been out and people have been poking at it, and I'm sure you guys have been anonymously recording pokes.
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In London it costs £2300 ($250), and typically lots of poking at an unresponsive kiosk-mounted screen, just to unlock a city-run shared bike.
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Well, when you're poking at the thin sheet of glass covering your smartphone or tablet all day, the last thing you want is it shattering.
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Boston Dynamics really does stress-test its robots by kicking and poking at them with sticks, and this has long made for slightly uncomfortable viewing.
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The song has Kline wandering through apathy, thinking about the things she could've done if she'd had the energy or will, poking at her subconscious.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered to give political asylum to former FBI Director James Comey, poking at tensions between Comey and President Trump.
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Air filtering masks have been fashion items in China and India for years, and companies have been poking at the edges of the American market.
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He brought a light touch to his satire -- acknowledging partisan division and poking at Trump without seeming mean-spirited -- and an overall silliness to the proceedings.
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Poking at your smartphone before bed makes it harder to fall asleep because the cool, bluish glow of its screen tricks your body think it's daytime.
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At one point, I saw a Delos employee in a white jumpsuit and goggles standing around, pretending to monitor the town by poking at an iPad.
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His work is shot through with homages to and jokes from and gentle fun-poking at great works of literature as well as golden-age comics.
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And we're all stoked to be playing in a room together again, and not poking at the computer and discussing every note and all that stuff.
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"Go on ride away / in your Silverado," she laments, curses, sneers, poking at tradition but, in the keening pedal steel, finding something beautiful in it, too.
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Then that bird, Little Man, got on my shoulder and became fascinated with my oxygen tank thing and my ear, and just kept poking at me.
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A few hours after that, he weighed in again, this time by Twitter, poking at the Democratic front-runners Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Bernie Sanders.
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And while the answers to these interviews may be playfully (and rightly) poking at the thinness of contemporary music journalism, that particular answer holds some weight.
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It just works, right out of the box, encouraging kids to play with their hands and imaginations instead of just poking at a glowing screen for hours.
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I don't know how the fuck the Cloud works, but it felt like the universe was poking at me, waking up dormant memories of ostracization and assimilation.
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This is a legacy we're only just now starting to really deconstruct, and it's one that Lee's film is so invested in poking at from every angle.
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But I have a sense that Ingels would like to throw a bit of a curveball at the pandemic lust for phallic needles poking at the sky.
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The campaign has since been dialed back, Mr. Zimmer said, and new marketing efforts will focus on playing up Lyft's strengths rather than poking at Uber's weaknesses.
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Both is a work of cogitation, poking at concepts and feelings Kaya has encountered in her journeys from Scandinavia to New York, the runway to the silver screen.
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But instead of poking at sliders for an hour, computer scientists want to make it incredibly easy for even amateur photographers to achieve results comparable to a professional's.
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He spent a significant amount of time poking at Fox News for what he said was unfair coverage, offering exceptions for a handful of the network's opinion shows.
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When I took the paella out of the oven, I found myself poking at a heap of tough undercooked rice, gooey overcooked rice, unopened clams, and desiccated salmon.
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Most recently he has threatened that his critics should have their nails cut off, because they are like people who spoil vegetables in the market by poking at them.
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The goal for Trump is to get under his rivals' skin, poking at them to draw them into a back-and-forth -- one Trump likely won't back down from.
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Imagine, if you will, that this is a blind probe poking at the Switch's brain versus the traditional jailbreak where the code is "thinking" it's running a real, signed program.
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He couldn't be a Johnny Carson or Jay Leno, amiably poking at the nonpartisan foibles of both sides for a big-tent audience, even if that were still possible today.
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But instead of prying and poking at our faces like we did back in middle school, now we know how to deal with them like the grown-ass adults we are.
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And for a guy who has made numerous songs poking at indie rock critics, there's nothing particularly bold about pledging allegiance to Pitchfork's number one album of the decade thus far.
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"This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other, and telling each other that — my plan, your plan," Mr. Buttigieg said.
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Carved straight into the wood panel, the eyes look as if they're almost poking at the distorted bodies, causing them to buckle and at times even dissipate into the wood itself.
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It is even harder to square his government props for farmers with the demonizing of socialism he has pursued as a campaign tactic, poking at a festering divide in the Democratic Party.
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"For those of us who believe that the media has been corrupt for a lot of years, it's a way of poking at the jellyfish," Karen Kulp told me in late April.
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But Sittenfeld doesn't shy away from poking at the soft spots of a person's psyche, the painful longings for something exquisite to cut through the ennui of even the most comfortable lives.
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She delights in poking at the raw points in Rose and Fred's marriage, as well as sparring with just about everybody else she meets — which, given her seclusion, is mostly her husband.
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By poking at Trump's insecurities, Putin is hoping to distract the President -- making it less likely Trump will take action to hold Russia accountable for its ongoing attacks on the United States.
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You could see that he was going to keep doing it for as long as it was possible, and was just going to keep poking at this self-seriousness of the regime.
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It's never clear whether Kingsman: The Golden Circle is supposed to be more than the sum of these fights, or whether it's just marking time by poking at raw political nerves in between.
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I didn't see the usual red welts that pop up on my skin after poking at it myself, or the red scabby chicken pox-looking marks that I usually leave a facial with.
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With his old bag of tricks, Cohen is successfully promoting his show not by adding to the conversation, but by gleefully poking at it and watching everyone — politicians and onlookers alike — get upset.
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I argued endlessly with MSNBC about all things national security for years, doing the daily blah, blah, blah in Secaucus, but also poking at the conventional wisdom of everyone from Matthews to Hockenberry.
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Or even The Searchers, which 2020 eyes will note has plenty of racist stereotypes but is at least using them in service of poking at old Hollywood's racist assumptions, and is definitely melancholic.
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On some nights, the crowd is a mix of white people here simply because it's new, and Chinese families tentatively poking at the fried eggplant and pork dumplings topped with flying fish roe.
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There is a real question that there's a real question that senators are poking at the last week about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh believes that a sitting President should be investigated and prosecuted.
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Usually that means I'm reading a book or trying a crossword puzzle, but lately I've been spending my downtime poking at an iPad screen trying to find a dirty pitchfork or a flamboyant chef.
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George W. Bush turned his wit on himself, poking at perceptions he was dim and at his propensity to misspeak in speeches that are remembered as glimmers of levity in otherwise dark political times.
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Ellroy, who is tall and bald, and looks like a cross between Michel Foucault and Uncle Fester from the Addams Family, got up and spent a few moments peering and poking at the thermostat.
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Trump, who at recent events has pondered aloud about the fact that he could lose Iowa to Cruz, has nevertheless recently begun intentionally poking at his faith, nationality, and as of Tuesday, his citizenship.
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While watching female beauty gurus do their thing, it can be hard to turn off that destructive part of my brain that is always poking at me to compare myself physically with other women.
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Common is thorough, not committing anything to true knowledge until it has confirmed it hundreds or thousands of times, and even then, it is constantly challenging its knowledge, poking at what it thinks it knows.
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"I fell down on the side of … probably after what [Ellen DeGeneres] went through, probably good sense," she said, poking at DeGeneres, who publicly came out as gay on the cover of Time in 1997.
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With Putin's Russia constantly on the hunt, poking at the fringes of the alliance periphery for a vulnerable target, NATO must adhere unflinchingly to the d'Artagnan philosophy of one-for-all-and-all-for-one.
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I once walked into a host's bathroom to see the bath full of floating whisky bottles being soaked to remove the labels, a servant sitting on a stool serenely poking at them with a stick.
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Both Kameda and AbemaTV played on the retired boxer's notoriety in the country, with his statement poking at the jabs he received from the press and fellow pugilists in the early days of his career.
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As he jumped up in the polls at the end of last year, and then won in New Hampshire and Nevada, Sanders has delighted in poking at party leaders' increasingly vocal anxieties over his rise.
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Caught in the middle of this are the fans without the skill to translate or program, who likely could have judged for themselves whether a half-baked project that crashed frequently was worth poking at.
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AMD has been poking at the established Intel and Nvidia combination for high-end gaming PCs, and the company's 16-core Threadripper processors even prompted Intel to respond with its own 18-core Core i9 chip.
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"This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in-person and around the world," Spicer said during the award show, poking at how he described Trump's inaugural crowd to reporters in January.
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A convenient way to explain away hours spent poking at people's arms and clavicles when they should have been practicing landing those blows on the jawline of an opponent who wasn't simply going to let them.
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The role sees Streep meekly prodding and sometimes clumsily poking at Celeste and the rest of the Monterey 5 for answers about her dead son, but there's something clearly nefarious lurking beneath Mary Louise's innocent facade.
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" In an earlier debate, Buttigieg responded to some fierce but not unwarranted criticism from Castro by declaring, "This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other.
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With an energized base on their side, and poking at it when they threaten to go wobbly, Democrats are looking at better-than-expected polling and hearing a chorus of canaries singing in GOP coal mines.
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But even researchers admit that none of the solutions are complete, because they mostly try to address the neural network black box by poking at it from different angles to trigger any possible unpleasant surprise it might withhold.
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The guy who does reflect our national psyche is Strickland (Michael Shannon), a successful white man who found the Asset, brought it to the lab, and now spends his time poking at the Asset with a cattle prod.
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After a cinematic opening crawl, the Millennium Falcon makes a hard landing, and Han Solo's voice directs the protagonist to help fix the craft by haphazardly poking at virtual buttons while the Falcon fires on incoming TIE fighters.
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"Mayor Pete Buttigieg admonished both Castro and Biden, saying, "This is why presidential debates have become unwatchable, this reminds people of what they cannot stand about Washington; people scoring points at each other, people poking at each other.
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I'd always heard about "Buffy," but was busy raising my kids and didn't really watch TV. When I saw a clever YouTube spoof poking at the lack of feminism in "Twilight," called "Buffy vs Edward," I was intrigued.
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The European project is troubled by uncertainty, with the disruption of Brexit underestimated, Russia poking at democratic unity and "this huge question mark" from Washington, said Stefano Stefanini, a former Italian ambassador who is a consultant in Brussels.
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We burned through a quick hour poking at strange things in the sand: coconuts, a Dutch prescription bottle, a refrigerator door, yogurt cups with labels in Arabic, and dozens of shoes, toothbrushes and bottles, most covered in gooseneck barnacles.
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And, given the design of the keyboard, I think that it will be nice to be able to keep your hands on the keyboard and away from poking at a screen that is now much higher than it was before.
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For a few minutes, I stood on an underwater reef, poking at a school of pink jellyfish; then I was deep in an ocean trench, using my hand controller as a flashlight while I crouched to look for sea turtles.
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While I&aposve always treated my skin pretty nicely, I&aposm not above rubbing my dry eyes with curled fists or violently poking at my lid while trying to dislodge a buried eyelash or piece of dust from time to time.
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But as you might expect from a label that operates at the avant edge of electronic music, the producers assembled here mostly set up camp with the cowboys, pushing and poking at traditionally held notions of ambient music to mind-expanding effect.
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Later, standing in front of dozens of eminently powerful people poking at salads in the UN's Delegate Dining Room, former Vice President Al Gore stood at a dais and joked about keeping his remarks short so we could all get on to lunch.
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The miniseries digs deeper than you'd expect, poking at the messy intersections of race, gender, and class that so much TV still shies away from, and it will remind you, time and again, of bits and pieces of the trial you'd completely forgotten about.
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Vice is perhaps too scared of humanizing Cheney here and there, but I think the way it keeps poking at his exterior to ask if there's really a heart in there somewhere eventually attains the level of Shakespearean tragedy McKay seems to be going for.
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So when I loaded up the Mega Man Legacy Collection on my Switch on a flight last week, during a brief moment where my wife and daughter were asleep, I figured it'd be a few minutes of poking at Air Man and Guts Man before moving on.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet doesn't want to solely portray the internet as a scary place, but I was a little surprised by how dark the movie was willing to go, especially as it entered a third act that isn't shy about poking at its heroes' insecurities.
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The fact that Dillard, Bryant, Huger, Dixon and Rost had spent the season questioning whether she was truly committed to getting pregnant and poking at her relationship with Michael in the face of his sexual assault charges (which were dismissed by the court back in October).
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The writer-director's follow-up to his unexpected blockbuster Get Out is another hybrid of deeply disturbing supernatural horror and sly social commentary — although as Peele himself has stated in interviews promoting the movie, this time out, he's more interested in terrifying audiences than in poking at their wokeness.
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As a piece of outmoded hardware, the X60 is amusing enough to gawk at, but rather than just poking at it and scratching my head like Brendan Fraser from Encino Man, it was time to set this thing up as my main machine and try to get some work done.
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" As parents, Ferrara says, we want our kids to look at the world and think, "I want more," but we want them to be able to do that in such a way that they realize that getting what they want is a result of their efforts and not from "poking at somebody else.
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Even before Rauner's projected victory, the Republican Governors Association sought to cast Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt hotel riches, as a "self-serving Illinois political insider" while poking at the Blagojevich tapes, obtained and published by the Chicago Tribune, which reveal Pritzker offering the former governor an unvarnished take on race relations and state politics.
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Cecily Strong played a Kamala Harris campaign worker who said she was "still undecided" on who to vote for — poking at Harris's recent staffing and budget troubles (as well as the high number of undecided Iowa voters) — asked McKinnon why it took her so long to release her plan for funding Medicare-for-all.
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Unlike most of Apple's other devices, the Apple Watch doesn't currently have any sort of built-in biometrics for unlocking — there's no thumbprint sensor for Touch ID, or camera for Face ID. Unlocking your Apple Watch means poking at the screen to punch in a PIN (or, if you've configured it to unlock when you unlock your phone, doing that).
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GANZ You're poking at the underlying tension of the response to the video: the fact that there are different shades of allyship and enduring questions about who "gets" to be an ally, or a gay icon, and how — are allies only chosen by the gay community or can they be imposed from beyond, and is there a way for both to do important work?
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And you do have to wonder because it comes down in every case where there is an informant were people predisposed to do bad things or was this manufactured by the -- MACCALLUM: Or were they poking at some soft spots with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and saying like you know, these are the low-hanging fruit perhaps in this foreign policy team and they -- we&aposve raised some questions so why don&apost you go in there and offer them some dirt on Hillary Clinton and we&aposll see what happens?
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Slave Fight Key & Peele had a lot of fun poking at the fragility of the male ego when it came to both starting and finishing fights over the course of their series, like the season two episode featuring Key as a new dad who starts talking tough when he realized that no one's going to attack him with a baby strapped to his chest, or Peele's season five (or four b, if you prefer) tough guy who would start something at a bar, no really, if only his friend weren't telekinetically holding him back.
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