Roman numerals: Last season, the league dropped a long tradition and made the game Super Bowl 50 rather than Super Bowl L. This year, Roman numerals are back.
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Wide Roman numerals indicate 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock.
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Periodical cicada populations — called broods — are identified by Roman numerals.
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The use of Roman numerals to mark Super Bowls persists.
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Someone had written out 18 in Roman numerals on the wall.
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If you are thinking in terms of Roman numerals, X = TEN.
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Each mixes Arabic and Roman numerals on the dial, for instance.
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By the Number The Roman numerals have reached LIII, or 21.
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This was followed up by an image of the Roman numerals 'i.iv.
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Metallic black Roman numerals read I to XII from bottom to top.
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On her neck, XLI, 41 in roman numerals, was inked into her skin.
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Even with Roman numerals, the 11-inch clock face is easy to read.
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Going from Roman numerals to this system dramatically simplifies and extends arithmetic calculation.
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I pretty much always avoid the following: Pluralized names (especially first names) Partial phrases, except for extremely common ones Random Roman numerals (more commonly seen Roman numerals, like III or XII, as on a grandfather clock, are totally fair game).
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The design speaks for itself: It reads "Kaia XXIII," the Roman numerals for 23.
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Along the way, Perrin somehow forgot that nine and 11 are two separate Roman numerals.
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The selection features Breguet-style hands and a bold combination of Arabic and Roman numerals.
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As the roman numerals on the games went up, so did the much-applauded spectacle.
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Another loosened-up cryptic convention is the use of abbreviations and symbols, like Roman numerals.
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This is why I am thankful that there aren't too many Roman numerals in crosswords.
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Roman numerals give tattoos a clean, organized feel, and they can easily be hidden from sight.
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Roman numerals attached to Super Bowls are as central to NFL lore as fourth quarter comebacks.
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Another type of extrapolation occurs at 37A, where it could have been Roman numerals, but isn't.
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That was so long ago, Super Bowls required more than two Roman numerals for identification purposes.
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Harden's hat isn't how Roman numerals work, but there are clearly four orange hash marks on there.
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Numbers in clues sometimes represent letters in the answers by reading them as the Roman numerals they represent.
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And that Roman numerals will return in a year that doesn't result in Super Bowl L. Remember Michael Oher?
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"In this case, the baby should be called Alexis Olympia Ohanian 'the second,' using Roman numerals," she told Yahoo!
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I observed Dunia as she studied the Roman numerals on the dial, harking back to a distant, ancient time.
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Samsung hasn't used roman numerals since the Galaxy S III, and I see absolutely no reason why'd they revert now.
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She minded her manners by typing into the search bar, "Please translate these Roman numerals, MCMXVIII, thank you," Mashable reported.
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In terms of watchOS design, Apple launched a few new faces, including one with Minnie Mouse, and one with Roman numerals.
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First of all, I overlooked the popularity — or I should say the lack of popularity — of Roman numerals in modern society.
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Roman numerals: For the first time since the fourth Super Bowl, the game will not be referred to by a Roman numeral.
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If you're still pondering how RELAXANTS could be the answer to "They'll help you unwind at 10 Star Lane," think Roman numerals.
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She also has Roman numerals on her wrist, a gun outline on her middle finger, and the letter "G" behind her ear.
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I also try my best to stay away from Roman numerals, like DLIII (Date when Italy was annexed to the Byzantine Empire).
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In fact, if you're into Roman numerals, you'll enjoy 25 Across's clue, "5 + 0 + 1 + 500," the answer is not 506, it's VOID.
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They also named their first child, Blue Ivy, with "4" in mind, opting for the Roman numerals that make up the number (IV). 12.
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Nearly eight years after his mother passed away, West got a tattoo of her birthdate inked in Roman numerals on one of his wrists.
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"The titles are organized by roman numerals [and] I think of these titles as an opus number from my visual oeuvre," Locher tells Creators.
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Soon to join it, around the corner, will be ML House, named for the Roman numerals for its address, 1050 Avenue of the Americas.
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Davidson obscured a drawing of David's face as well as a series of stars and roman numerals, replacing them with a drawing of a forest.
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China grades its water into six bands using Roman numerals, with "grade I" the cleanest, and "below grade V" unusable even for irrigation and industry.
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Tonight, the Denver Broncos face off against the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 — a Super Bowl so super that it doesn't have roman numerals.
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The Seiko QXA597ALH Japanese Quartz Wall Clock has a timeless, classic style with Roman numerals and an elegant, accurate quartz movement and sweep second hand.
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The album, with Roman numerals listed as a part of the track numeration, hinted that it was more than a traditional album—and it was.
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It has "J Booth Dublin" engraved beneath the Roman numerals on the chapter ring, the circular feature around the edge of the brass clock face.
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In case you were not already familiar with the tattoos on Justin Bieber's chest; the lion, cross, bear, roman numerals, and the eagle were there before.
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"It is not a laboriously negotiated, strict, by-the-Roman-numerals agenda," said Daniel R. Russel, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
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Here are our favorite TV, soundbar, and streaming deals for Super Bowl LIV (that's 54 in Roman numerals!) to get you prepped for the big game.
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Arab conquerors, merchants, and scholars spread the base 10 system with Arabic numerals to Europe and it replaced Roman numerals in everyday life around the 15th century.
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In the United States, the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale is used for this kind of measure, defining twelve different levels using Roman numerals, from I to XII.
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When he was serving a 12-year stint as F.B.I. director, he was dubbed Bobby Three Sticks — a play on his patrician name and its imposing Roman numerals.
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Their favourite song to harmonize to is "If I Ever Fall In Love" by Shai, and they all have the date they moved in together tattooed in Roman numerals.
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The name of Kaiser Franz-Joseph I is displayed in gilded lettering above the main entrance, and the date of the building itself (in Roman numerals, of course): 1891.
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There's a reason, though, that series piled up so many Roman numerals, even if it became increasingly ridiculous the farther it got away from the original's charming underdog tale.
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When he was serving a 12-year stint as F.B.I. director, he was dubbed Bobby Three Sticks — a play on his patrician name and its imposing three Roman numerals.
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Beyond that, I have what I consider to be a fairly mainstream aversion to entries like unfamiliar abbreviations, partials, combining forms, Roman numerals, obscurities and less familiar foreign words.
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Super Bowl 50 happened this year, but the No Fun League (did I do that right SB Nation?) ditched the Roman numerals this year in favor of regular old numbers.
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Apple hastened its way toward a dead end last year when it decided to switch to Roman numerals rather than continuing with numbers as it had done in the past.
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Since the numbers on a grandfather clock are Roman numerals, and since the hours stop at 12, the lowest number not on a grandfather clock would be 13, or XIII.
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Khloé took to her website to assign imaginary tattoos to her mom and sisters: initials on Kourtney's ear, words along Kendall's ribs, and roman numerals on the back of Kim's shoulder.
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You might not be surprised to hear that Samsung went 16:9 the same year Apple did, with the Galaxy S III (back in the days when they used Roman numerals).
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Super Bowl 52 (or LII, for those who prefer Roman numerals) will be airing on NBC on Sunday, February 4, at 6:30 pm Eastern time, 3:30 pm Pacific time.
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Besides the roman numerals, the Seiko is surrounded by a brown frame that has a wood grain finish, giving it a softer, more romantic look compared to the metallic modern-looking clocks.
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And what the hell kind of watch is a, I can't even see the logo, wait let me zoom in, a Fashion Geneva Roman Numerals Faux Leather Analog Crystals Wrist Watch™?
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Tom Brady also won a Super Bowl game on February 1, 2004, a day when: (a.) It being Super Bowl XXXVIII, millions of fans began to feel strongly that Roman numerals suck.
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The building includes a meeting room featuring the original oak beams, which had been covered by plaster and are each marked by Roman numerals that were historically carved in to help with assembly.
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This Sunday brings Super Bowl LII, a TV event that dwarfs all others, followed by another sports showcase so big that it calls for Roman numerals, NBC's broadcast of the XXIII Winter Olympics.
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This year is Super Bowl LII (which, for those not well-versed in Roman numerals, is the 52nd incarnation of the title game) taking place between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots.
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It's interesting to note that in ancient systems of numeration, whether Roman numerals or the Hindu-Arabic system, from which European numbers later derived, the number 1, is always a version of this straight, vertical line.
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"Hamilton: The Revolution" was designed to mimic the appearance of a text from Alexander Hamilton's era, with a ridged leather spine, Roman numerals for chapters and cream-colored lightweight paper that was a special-order stock from Asia.
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She and her husband wed on a fourth; they were both born on a fourth; and their daughter's middle name, Ivy, is said to be a play on the roman numerals for four, IV. What's the deal, Bey?
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I also included the clue for 39-Down to showcase the fact that I somehow managed to avoid having to use any random Roman numerals (but, for some reason, still felt compelled to reference one in the clues).
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Our sources say this is a Mother of Pearl Rolex, and it comes fully loaded with 15.38 carats of VS diamonds around the band, and 1.5 carats of VS diamonds on the Roman numerals lining the face dial.
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"Many times the spaces are occupied by businesses or office spaces while the marquee remains as the 'identification' for the building," said Mr. Bringuet, whose company made the huge Times Square sign in Roman numerals for Super Bowl XLVIII.
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The star has a large variety of ink all over her body — from a cross that sits alongside her new lion, to a flock of birds down her arm, a series of roman numerals along her rib cage and many more.
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The 18-year-old older brother of model-of-the-moment Kaia Gerber enlisted famed tattoo artist Jon Boy, who's inked plenty of stars like Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin, Bella Hadid and Ashley Graham, to write the lowercase script and roman numerals.
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The two sat down last week to reflect on how the Super Bowl came about and how it became enormously popular through the decades, with television ratings soaring, Roman numerals crowding together and players like Joe Namath making a name for themselves forever.
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The timepiece, which was made custom and commissioned from Joel the Jeweler in Los Angeles, features a soft pink face, 15.38 carats of VS diamonds over the band and 1.5 carats of VS diamonds in the Roman numerals around the dial, TMZ reported.
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Thanks to her regular updates on Pottermore, author J.K. Rowling is giving fans of the Harry Potter series plenty to keep their interest piqued, but her latest announcement shows that Harry Potter himself should have had some Roman numerals after his name.
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Even without something with the visual derring-do of a quadruple stack, it's still a balancing act between including really sparkling entries and not including too much glue, like Roman numerals (XII), although it's clued gently as a number on a grandfather clock.
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The display can show up to 161 characters at a time in a 23 x 33 grid, with each character offering 70 different options to display (the 26 letters of the alphabet, the 10 roman numerals, 8 solid colors, and a variety of punctuation marks).
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The Canadian actress visited celebrity-favorite New York City tattoo artist JonBoy over the weekend to cash in on the tiny-tattoo trend, choosing a set of Roman numerals I IV III (otherwise known as 1, 4, 3) right on the side of her wrist.
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As the roman numerals in their names suggest, Bevo XV and Uga X are preceded by a long line of live mascots for their respective schools, but this history is not reason enough for PETA to accept the practice of using live animals as mascots.
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This Sunday, while the harried mothers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island stir crab dip, the president will be pulling for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's dynastic team to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51 (sorry, those Roman numerals are too fatuous for me).
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Written in Latin, entries are made up of "dense print in numbered columns, subdivided by capital Roman numerals, then capital letters, then Arabic numerals, then perhaps more Arabic numerals, then lowercase letters, then — if you're still on the trail — Greek letters," said Mr. Butterfield.
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Today, US President Donald Trump unveiled the new logo for the US Space Force, and not only is it poorly designed (why is the date of establishment there and why is it in Roman numerals?) but derivative, as one would expect from the Trumps.
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First, Bieber added a snarling head of a grizzly bear occupying the space on his left pectoral muscle right in-between the large cross in the center of his chest and the tribute to his mother, the year 1975 in roman numerals, right under his collarbone.
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Together, they produced some of the watch world's most distinctive timepieces, recognizable by their signature oversized cases, transparent backs, imposing crowns, Roman numerals and Celtic cross-styled tourbillon carriages, all of which are certified for their provenance and quality with the Poinçon de Genève, or Geneva Seal.
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Besides the standard crossword crutches which I do my best to avoid (my personal absolute no-noes are random Roman numerals and massive obscurities which happen to have nice letters), there are some problematic words which, despite their prevalence in spoken or written English, I'd never include.
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Well, sort of: The ones that launched exclusively on the Fenty Beauty website sadly won't come encrusted in crystals, which is a bummer, but they will feature special commemorative packaging honoring RiRi's "Dirty Thirty," and the luxe powder will come embossed with XXX, the Roman numerals for 30.
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The band made out two formations: one of the roman numerals IX—a not-so-vague Title IX nod about the type of law suits filed against the school by the victims of sexual assault—and another of a star, seemingly referring to Baylor's ex-president Ken Starr.
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In eschewing its past naming convention of good old fashioned numbers in favor of Roman numerals — and in doing so calling the phone "ten" — the Cupertino-based company is trying to have it both ways: implicitly saying this is a phone for the ages, but that it's also not too pretentious.
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I don't remember how I came up with the idea to do "words starting with two letter Roman numerals ending in I" as a theme, but I do remember watching "Dallas" episodes a lot back in the '80s and I remember thinking VIEWINGS was the best entry in this puzzle.
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Despite now requiring a mastery of Roman numerals to tell each iteration apart, Sony's new RX100 VII introduces some important upgrades to bolster the camera's capabilities as a compact video shooter including real-time eye-tracking autofocus while capturing footage, and for the first time, a dedicated connector for an external microphone.
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According to some insiders who have seen tomorrow's puzzle and given some hints about it in some private puzzle-based chatrooms, it has a quintuple stack of 15s, is a double pangram, has 52 words with just 17 black squares, and all the answers are common with no partials, foreign words, or Roman numerals.
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In a recent GQ cover shoot, the 21-year-old singer discussed the meanings behind some of his ink, like the Roman numerals on his chest that translate to his mom's birthday and the owl on his arm that "signifies wisdom" — not how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
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And though the Roman numerals and extravagant halftime shows would come later (unless you count Super Bowl III's featured halftime performer, the Florida A&M University marching band, as extravagant), the game did feature something that has helped subsequent Super Bowls become made-for-TV events that draw in even non-football fans: It had a narrative.
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It also connects the pieces Bieber has on his chest — which include the snarling head of a grizzly bear on his left pec, the stern head of a lion on his right pec, a large gothic cross in the center of his chest, and, in a tribute to his mother, the year 22017 in Roman numerals which live right under his collarbone.
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When asked to discriminate among the shapes as letters, the participants showed the greatest activation in the area of the brain associated with reading; when the participants were asked to identify the shapes as Roman numerals, their brains lit up in a region associated with numbers and quantity; and, when the participants sorted the shapes by color, Amedi and his colleagues saw activity in the color centers of the brain, as well as in the auditory cortex.
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We're going to start using Roman numerals, so it's VI. We've had the privilege on five of -- this will be the fifth time -- save one of our Delivering Alphas, each time we've had the privilege of Treasury Secretary of the United States being with us, back to Mr. Geithner's term and now, for the third time, the 76th Treasury Secretary of the United States, please welcome to the stage, Jacob Lew and his interviewer, Steve Liesman, chief economics correspondent for CNBC.
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In a recent Refinery29 interview, Gomez walked us through her ink designs, which include a tiny music note on her right wrist; a "G" behind her left ear (for her little half-sister Gracie); her mother's birthday in Roman numerals on the back of her neck; a Bible verse on her right hip that reads, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"; the date of when she met her best friend on her left hip; and the phrase, "Love yourself first" in Arabic on her back.
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