Not a single person could tell they were being skimmed.
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I skimmed the book on Amazon when it came out.
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I skimmed a few articles and caught the main points.
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The effect was like rereading a novel I had skimmed.
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A surplus is skimmed, and the old, the immobile, and the
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Her blunt lob haircut (or wig … who knows?) skimmed her shoulders.
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If you've skimmed the news lately, these questions are a cinch.
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Still, I love a lawn overgrown and skimmed by the wind.
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An RFID blocking material protects cards and passports from being skimmed.
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We don't use skimmed milk powder in any of our foods.
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A few yards away, my partner skimmed along in a kayak.
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First, he skimmed a handful of news stories about the massacre.
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Puffins skimmed the surface as the crew handed out fishing poles.
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Skimmed milk powder prices rose 1.8 percent while butter gained 5.8 percent.
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His gaze skimmed over her breasts, her thighs, the parts between them.
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But Ms. Roumagoux, who said she had skimmed the circular, isn't worried.
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I skimmed for a couple of pages until Josh's name stopped appearing.
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If your intent was to just hit the high spots, you skimmed it.
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At its lowest, the flight skimmed just 60 meters above the churning ocean.
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She wore a blue summer dress that skimmed the tops of her thighs.
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I quickly skimmed through the class description and responded to secure my spot.
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Time was a tame lakemy hand skimmed from the front of a canoe.
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Warren, he added, seemed to have "skimmed over" the issue of her ancestry.
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Then the line snapped and it ripped free, skimmed off over the water.
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A low score indicates that the article skimmed the surface of a given topic.
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A few birds skimmed the undisturbed surface of the lake; no, those were bats.
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La Mercerie's chicken bouillon is simmered and skimmed just the way it should be.
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Several cars skimmed the barriers as they began pushing the limits of the track.
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One conviction involved a suburban welfare department official who skimmed $125,000 in welfare funds.
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Moira's experience, though played deftly by Wiley, skimmed the surface in Handmaid's Tale's first season.
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Every so often the best candidates are skimmed off and invited to apply for visas.
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From there, the milk is fermented and skimmed to remove the fat in the milk.
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Mr. Hutchings skimmed through the neighborhood's hodgepodge of upper-middle-class wealth and suburban decay.
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Other products such as skimmed milk, rapeseed oil, nitrogen fertilisers or wood pellets are untraded.
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The surface chemicals are skimmed off with floating lines like those used in oil spills.
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The blade stood still for a moment, then skimmed down the back of my neck.
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One economist who has studied road deals estimates that 5-10% is skimmed off the top.
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After the fat has solidified, it can be skimmed off, leaving a meat-infused, flavourful liquid.
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I skimmed it anew this week, in the hopes of scoffing back at its bad prediction.
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It's no joke and I think it's dealt with really well because it's not skimmed over.
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He skimmed it quickly, almost dismissively; it was for the daytime sale, which featured lesser objects.
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Somewhere in bare background, the op who's aperture-slot they skimmed is beating against the plastic otherside.
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If you've read or even skimmed the books, you know she has almost nothing to work with.
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After two-and-a-half weeks in Myanmar, we had only skimmed the surface of Southeast Asia.
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We are not skimmed milk people, we live life to the full, with full fat dairy products.
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But there are many more braised fowl recipes in the repertoire — we have barely skimmed the surface.
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I quickly skimmed through some game notes, along with transcripts of the pregame interviews with the managers.
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The agreement was nine pages, single-spaced, so I skimmed it, and I didn't ask any questions.
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The amount of skimmed milk powder in Nutella was increased slightly, giving the spread a lighter color.
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On Monday, Juno skimmed just 5,600 miles above the storm clouds, and snapped some pictures as it went.
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In the past, FIFA and its leadership thrived in a culture of lined pockets, skimmed contracts and bribes.
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The company allegedly skimmed nearly a billion dollars from rigged contracts with the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
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I skimmed through my shoe pictures during the descent and didn't like anything well enough to stop for.
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Yet, according to the real estate listings we definitely skimmed, fortress inventory is at an all-time low.
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That information, which includes both shadow profiles and broader ad-tracking, was largely skimmed over during Zuckerberg's testimony.
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Rams 234, Jets 22 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The heels of the Jets' linemen skimmed along their goal line.
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We skimmed through the site and found lots of unique products that will make great gifts this season.
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Apple skimmed the foam off the top of the Microsoft beer, moving from tech to the luxury sector.
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Politicians skimmed over policy issues with a volley of recriminations over who was to blame for the deadlock.
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Even though I work for lawmakers, the federal contractor I work for illegally skimmed my paycheck for years.
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" So, a few phrases jumped out as I skimmed a brochure promoting the park's day hikes: "Extremely rocky.
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Pulisic's finish, from an awkward, wildly obtuse angle to the right of the goal, skimmed into the net.
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The men sank into the leather seats of Mr. Winemiller's Chevy Tahoe and skimmed along the wet roads.
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He skimmed more than half of May Wong Smith's trust fund, ostensibly to invest in a security business.
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Red onion rings also felt misleading, maybe because I skimmed over the "red" part when reading the menu.
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In the '60s, the fragrance was skimmed of phototoxic bergamot oil to keep sunworshippers from developing dark spots.
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On breaks at work, while the others smoked, I skimmed the papers looking for news from the south.
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The price of skimmed milk powder dropped 1.6 percent though Cheddar cheese prices eked out a 0.2 percent gain.
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As I skimmed the ingredients, bubbles streaming into my eyes, the words "sodium lauryl sulfate" jumped out at me.
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Captain Sloane looked at Tritheist, who skimmed through some text projected in the center of his black comp glove.
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Important details may get breezily skimmed over early this month, so pay close attention to what's happening around you.
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The Sun's advertisers were snake-oil salesmen, literally; medical quacks who boiled rattlesnakes and bottled the skimmed-off froth.
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We have just skimmed the surface of what is out there, as if that revolting recording was not enough.
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AmazonSmile's helped to counteract that a bit, raising money for legitimately good causes, skimmed off purchases from the site.
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In particular, he almost completely skimmed over the specifics of what would happen once a ship landed on Mars.
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From 2002 to 2012, RALs collectively skimmed over $9.6 billion from the refunds of tens of millions American taxpayers.
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I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest.
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With a squeegee, he skimmed off the excess paint, leaving a colorful imprint of the cover on the canvas.
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Crosby earned a secondary assist after Malkin blasted a one-timer that skimmed off Rinne's glove at 15:32.
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But in that same speech, Ryan quickly skimmed over what he'd like Republicans to take up next: welfare reform.
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Blazer became known as Mr. Ten Percent for the amount he skimmed off the top of North American soccer revenues.
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You'll be revisiting emotionally charged issues you may have skimmed over in the past—they require your full attention now.
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Cunha faces another trial for allegedly receiving $5 million skimmed from Petrobras contracts for two drillships in 2006 and 2007.
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With a small wooden spoon, Maman skimmed the cream and slowly filled the akabya , a little black pot, with it.
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Presumably, security measures will also have to be considered to ensure commuters' credit cards aren't skimmed as they head home.
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S.C. "Casey" Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport, when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared.
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It was 4-0 five minutes later when Soshnikov's seemingly harmless wrist shot skimmed between Mrazek's blocker and his body.
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The alleged 20 percent that Jake skimmed off their YouTube revenue didn't go to him, but to paying for video production.
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Investigating the idea that aliens have traveled here and have skimmed the air with spaceships, meanwhile, is the province of pseudoscientists.
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Last year, I grabbed a bunch of books that, a couple years ago, I would have likely skimmed and tossed aside.
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Even if you've just skimmed climate policy discussions in recent years, you've likely come across the idea of a carbon tax.
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The airline confirmed about 500,000 customers had their credit cards skimmed over a three-week period between August and September 2018.
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That's because they presuppose the existence of prosperous jobs somewhere in the economy from which profits can be skimmed and redistributed.
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After I decided I couldn't take it anymore, I skimmed almost a grand from the safe and framed him for it.
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Congress can augment this action by attaching an appropriations rider that prohibits Medicaid funds from being skimmed into union bank accounts.
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Mickelson's putt skimmed off the edge of the cup and spun around it like a car going into a Scottish roundabout.
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Unlike regular markets, however, Valve set the terms of every exchange and skimmed a bit off the top of every transaction.
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After the surface water is skimmed, it's relatively free of sediment and chemicals, and is pumped from one pond to another.
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Keep it full-fat "We don't recommend skimmed milk [for] children," says Upton, particularly in children under the age of five.
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Other technical adjustments in the Commission's latest support package included an extension of public and private storage aid for skimmed milk powder.
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To make up for that added time, Shell alleges, her child's school skimmed five minutes off lunch and five minutes off recess.
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Partnered with a corrupt and ineffective Afghan government, U.S. forces confront a robust and growing insurgency, substantively funded by skimmed American contracts.
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If serving right away, the fat can be skimmed off with a spoon (though a little bit of fat lends flavor!). 9.
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Or perhaps you've skimmed past them, pausing long enough only to ask yourself this single, befuddling question: What the heck is Quibi?
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In a magnificent bit of skill, Watson sent in a corner that just barely skimmed the head of a Manchester City defender.
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Granted, you could probably ask for a similar version in the US if you switch up the milk for a skimmed option.
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The police said the accused illegally skimmed money from about 385 million reais ($117 million) in information technology contracts received from the bank.
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"See that hand?" said Justin Hartley, pointing to the second hand on his Rolex Daytona as it skimmed the black-and-champagne face.
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In their expert voices, they might deliver a great joke, or emphasize a great sentence or two that you otherwise might have skimmed.
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We've skimmed through all the hospitality offerings along the beach to bring you the ones offering the best access to the Pacific Ocean.
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It feels like we are being told that Season 1 was meaningless, that it only skimmed the surface and isn't the real story.
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And now NASA researchers are pretty sure that New Horizons, the probe that famously skimmed past Pluto in 2015, can see that boundary.
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The dollar was trading slightly higher against a basket of currencies, while U.S. stocks fell marginally as investors skimmed profits off recent gains.
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He alleged money laundering and that cash was skimmed off as it came in from investors in the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan.
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A major Boston-based bank will pay millions to settle federal charges that it skimmed profits on foreign currency exchanges for its clients.
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More fish paste, clarifyingly briny, is pressed between crisp sheets of tofu skin, made from the plush film skimmed off boiling soy milk.
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Ms. Wardeh made issheh (sometimes known as ishta) from the skimmed top of heated and cooled milk, a specialty of bakers in Hama.
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The DOJ's theory of the case is that the executives' graft skimmed off FIFA-related contracts and tickets was akin to lost profits.
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She's on the trail of a lowlife, nicknamed Jackie Crackers, who may or may not have stolen already skimmed money from an Indian casino.
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"The froth has been skimmed off," said Paul Ress, chief executive of Right Capital, which provides loans secured by art to dealers and collectors.
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Between 2012 and 2017, the duo allegedly skimmed $478,588 from their lunchrooms, pocketing cash students were spending on undercooked pizza or whatever every day.
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Plasma today is mostly collected via apheresis, a process where whole blood is extracted, spun in a centrifuge, and the plasma is skimmed off.
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DuPont is the world's largest producer of titanium dioxide, a brilliant pigment seen in everything from tennis-court lines to skimmed milk to sunscreen.
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Image: Jordan Strauss/Invision for The Americana at Brand/APA separator is a centrifugal device that separates fresh milk into cream and skimmed milk.
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She was indicted this week on charges arising from allegations she and top officials from her administration skimmed money intended for public works projects.
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But most of all, Trump needs a whole lot of people to send in $2004 skimmed off the top of their paychecks each month.
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If you skimmed the showtimes for your local multiplex this weekend and decided there wasn't anything worth leaving your house for, you're not alone.
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There are lots of pitches that end up in my inbox on any given day, and most get skimmed before heading to the trash.
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The kufta-bozbash is a strong, well-skimmed lamb broth with chickpeas and a single, tender lamb-rice meatball, as big as an apple.
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The film established a world that was strange and mysterious, but it barely skimmed the surface of its potential in its 90-minute runtime.
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He leaned forward so his face was close to the screen, but remained altogether still except for one finger that skimmed across the screen.
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Mr. Moi, his critics said, oversaw a kleptocracy that skimmed hundreds of millions of dollars from the treasury, sabotaging economic growth and widening inequality.
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Midcalf silk dresses came with ruffled bibs and hems; minidresses skimmed thigh-high ruffle-topped spats; and baby-blue shearling was cut by teal waves.
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In the case of most FroYo, you're get the nutritional benefits of protein and calcium from skimmed cow's milk, but no healthy fat, Zeitlin says.
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A Reuters investigation in 2013 found widespread labor abuses, including workers who said their pay was skimmed and spoke of scant scrutiny of working conditions.
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Miller tells me he's skimmed though a few videos, watched some friends play it, and that's it, even though he really wants to play it.
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The investigation has recovered 14 billion reais ($3.4 billion) of public money, including 3 billion reais returned to Petrobras from kickbacks skimmed off overpriced contracts.
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"I think it's beautiful," Ellen Ryan, 62, of Kings Park, N.Y., said while sitting on the roof deck as the ferry skimmed across the water.
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Ask what to choose, and Mr. Guirguis will gently steer you toward a sleeve of ishta, pillowy cream skimmed off the top of boiled milk.
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Even apart from the temptations of multiple casts ahead, it's evident that the ballet's cornucopia of invention can only be skimmed on a first viewing.
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The suit claims the law firm built in its fee in the loans and skimmed the money off before Depp was entitled to his money.
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Philadelphia 76ers: Bol Bol, C, Oregon With Joel Embiid likely in need of skimmed minutes, Bol is not ready to contribute in a big way.
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But in her first cinematic foray and this specific telling of her origin story, that part of her history has been skimmed off the top.
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His file detailed dozens of brief jail stints over the previous few years; I skimmed it and then asked a nearby officer to call him down.
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Ali Baba was able to escape the initial danger because he skimmed just a little off the top of the pile, in awe of its vastness.
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Having skimmed the actual ruling -- and having closely followed the politics of the travel ban for more than a year -- here are my five takeaways. 1.
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While the spill caused huge amounts of damage, crude oil isn't soluble in seawater and environmental clean-up efforts skimmed at least some off the surface.
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They had already skimmed through the missing years in haste, as though the past were gruesome, the two decades of lost friendship something untouchable and rotten.
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They were reunited by the headstrong colt Always Dreaming, who skimmed over the soupy stretch of Churchill Downs on Saturday to win the 143rd Kentucky Derby.
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It carried sensors designed to pick up the radio signatures of high-energy neutrinos as they skimmed the ice below, an effect known as Askaryan radiation.
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By the way, Rolle reportedly made more than $60 mil during his NFL career -- guessing Martin figured he wouldn't notice if he skimmed a couple mil.
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The understanding of reproduction, or god forbid pleasure, was skimmed over in favor of the sentiment that if you didn't use a condom, you could die.
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Hedrick, a hydrology technician, stuck the instrument into the solid white wall before him, withdrew it—now loaded with snow—and delicately skimmed off the extra flecks.
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Every so often during the boiling process, a worker skimmed white foam off the top of the water, which they then poured into plastic buckets placed nearby.
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I had skimmed early reviews questioning the timing of an ode to Woody Allen given the conversations we're currently having about sexual misconduct in Hollywood and beyond.
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It is also a much-needed source of cash, which they send back to their families (though with considerable amounts skimmed off by the North Korean government).
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By contrast, the dairy price index dropped 22018% in October, as lower quotations for cheese offset increases in those for skimmed and whole milk powders, FAO said.
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The payments totaled about $170 million a year, American officials said, and the Islamic State skimmed off about 10 percent or more of each paycheck in taxes.
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Too many digital photos end up sitting on hard drives, only to be skimmed now and then or uploaded to places like Facebook in much-degraded form.
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"They gave me a form and I guess I just kind of skimmed through it, you know, without digging too deep into what could happen," she said.
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Because who doesn't want to read the day's headlines and find out whether it's going to rain later as they reach for a pint of semi-skimmed?
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But as she skimmed past the northern Iowa cornfields on her way to her son Steven's seventh-grade track meet, she did not share other immigrants' fears.
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"I didn't know people were capable of this kind of stuff, and especially her," said Avery, whose business failed after Mulder skimmed some $185,000 in fraudulent payments.
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Hefty stocks are lurking in the world market, including more than 300,000 tonnes of skimmed milk powder sold into the EU's public storage scheme during the slump.
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" — Glenn Thrush, chief political correspondent of Politico "Ben Carson is giving a school presentation on a book that he didn't read but skimmed the back cover before class.
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Biel's mane man says the two skimmed through photos of Charlotte Gainsbourg (as well as everyone from "her mom to her sister") for the perfect French fringe inspo.
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A Reuters investigation in 2013 found widespread labor abuses at Fukushima, including workers who said their pay was skimmed and who spoke of scant scrutiny of working conditions.
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A Reuters investigation in 2013 found widespread labour abuses at Fukushima, including workers who said their pay was skimmed and who spoke of scant scrutiny of working conditions.
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She skimmed it, but says she doesn't understand English very well -- she's from Moscow -- and signed it under what she believed to be a threat to her safety.
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If your information is skimmed or revealed in a data breach it's okay; you won't have to replace your real credit card, only close down the virtual card.
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She will remain in pre-trial detention on corruption charges based on longstanding allegations that she skimmed public money that her organization had received to run housing programs.
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By Shannon Stirone Photo: NASA 1/63 This close-up photo of Jupiter's temperate belts was taken by the Juno spacecraft as it skimmed by the giant planet.
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Police said Samarco had skimmed on safety spending, focusing instead on increasing production despite obvious indications, such as cracks, that the dam was in danger of a breach.
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More red filled my screen as I skimmed a recent article on the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping Washington, my home state, where all our friends and family live.
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He swerved out of an upper-body undulation into a downward plunge, kicking a leg up behind him almost into a split as his face skimmed the floor.
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The original Théâtre du Châtelet production of "An American in Paris" was three hours long; it returns this year in the Broadway version, with 20 minutes skimmed off.
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There, she would pick and sort table grapes up to 12 hours, taking home as little as 27 euros a day, about $29, after middlemen skimmed her pay.
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What we found is that, yes, Disney's already skimmed much of the cream of the crop — but it'll be a long time yet before that well completely runs dry.
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John Hendel — who clarified that he's not actually a professor but a first-year MFA student teaching a general education class — said he only skimmed the email at first.
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Security researcher Willem de Groot discovered that customer information hackers skimmed customer information from nearly 6,000 sites, including the NRSC site, with the help of a Javascript malware exploit.
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The move often left her exposed, out of vital cover, but it also reliably skimmed huge chunks of health off any enemies unlucky enough to get in her way.
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Congressmen represent entire states, some as populous as neighbouring Latin American countries, which makes campaigning ruinously expensive—one reason why politicians skimmed off huge amounts of money from Petrobras.
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For as long as I've been shopping for my own clothes, I've instinctively skimmed over the low-scooped dresses, the sheer-back tops, and stretchy, snug fabrics like jersey.
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Once in place, the union directly skimmed a portion of the Medicaid reimbursement for its own purposes, including legislative and political interests, lavish executive compensation and even Christmas parties.
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But Trump has often skimmed over the fact that the ISIS campaign began under former President Barack Obama -- including operations to retake both ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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The 35% figure is close to the finding of a study last year by the Economic Policy Institute, which said Uber skimmed about 33% off of its drivers' fares.
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THE CLOSER And finally … If you've skimmed the news this week, you have an excellent chance of matching these speakers and their remarks in the Morning Report's QUIZ CONTEST.
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And the fat does not need to be painstakingly skimmed off because it will be removed — quickly and neatly — when the broth is chilled and it has turned solid.
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The main bunch was quickly skimmed down to about 20 riders and American Van Garderen, who was targeting a podium finish in Paris, was dropped midway through the ascent.
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I sort of skimmed through the script, which was kind of hard to respond to when it's just plain text and you don't know much else about the play.
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Before dawn each day, workers at this caseificio — or dairy producer — combine a skimmed milk that has separated in long trays overnight with fresh milk delivered from nearby farms.
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This would give kids something to look forward to as well as a time to calm down and think more deeply about things they may have skimmed over otherwise.
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That's great for Fake Watchers like me, who can pretend to watch it, then act confused or intrigued when someone brings up something that's not in a recap they skimmed.
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I arrived about an hour late, unaware that people were intending to march to Trump Tower; having only skimmed the Facebook description, I didn't think the rally was time-sensitive.
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The detection of molecular hydrogen occurred in October 2015 during Cassini's last pass through Enceladus' plumes, when it skimmed 30 miles (49 km) above the moon's southern pole taking samples.
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"Having skimmed the (commission's) report, they've ignored (Vote Leave's) detailed evidence, so it's riddled with errors & conclusions completely wrong," Matthew Elliott, who was head of the group, said on Twitter.
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China wants to export apples and dairy products and India is hoping to export skimmed milk products and buffalo meat, two Indian sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Investigators said the pair apparently skimmed money from cafeteria cash registers for up to 15 years, though Connecticut&aposs statute of limitations prevents investigators from going back further than 2012.
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Communication planet Mercury reenters your sign today while on its retrograde journey, encouraging you to explore and speak about things that you previously skimmed over or require a second look.
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During a close pass on February 2, Juno skimmed through Jupiter's ionosphere—a region of ionized particles surrounding the planet—at an altitude of 9,000 miles above the cloud tops.
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His organization's tentacles reached deep into all facets of Italian life, from small businesses forced to pay for protection, to large sectors of commerce, where they skimmed millions of dollars.
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When costs are suspiciously high, schools are poorly built or facilities are badly maintained, they say, it is often a warning that money is being skimmed, at the students' expense.
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Substantially larger-than-expected Indian exports could therefore weigh on global skimmed milk prices that only recently recovered from all time lows plumbed in January of around $1,550 per tonne.
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Its futures contracts for rapeseed meal, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk, unsalted lactic butter, sweet whey food grade powder, nitrogen fertilizer solution and wood pellets are little traded, or not at all.
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You may have skimmed over the platform, which usually shows up on the very top of your search results, but the easy-to-use interface has a lot going for it.
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In a situation where, for example, your credit card has been skimmed and duplicated, the risk of abuse is real, but it ends as soon as you get a new card.
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Its futures contracts for rapeseed meal, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk, unsalted lactic butter, sweet whey food grade powder, nitrogen fertiliser solution and wood pellets are little traded, or not at all.
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A close third choice among bettors and a distant third in the buildup in the news media, Exaggerator skimmed across a sloppy track to take the Santa Anita Derby on Saturday.
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Then there's Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild, two games I skimmed the surface of before Persona 5 stole me away, both with promising expansions due out this year.
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But even as he sat with briefing books and stacks of news clippings about global events, Mr. Trump has generally just skimmed through, according to several people familiar with his preparations.
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One woman who signed a sworn declaration supporting Swetnick's allegations later walked back her story, saying she only "skimmed'" the sworn statement she signed and accused Avenatti of "twisting" her words.
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It appears that officials in Switzerland have at least skimmed the essay: New regulations will require food preparers to stun or mechanically destroy a lobster's brain before immersing it in boiling water.
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The massive corruption scheme, in which money was skimmed from overpriced Petrobras contracts and used to pay political bribes, has seen dozens of executives from Petrobras and its suppliers go to jail.
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Contactless payments are one of the most secure ways to pay, cutting out the credit card entirely and reducing the chance that a card will be cloned or have its data skimmed.
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A yellow school bus lost control and skimmed down an icy neighborhood road on Tuesday before crashing into a stuck car — a harrowing ordeal captured on video by a shocked local resident.
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Artificial waves can be generated in a variety of ways: with pistons, with air chambers, with paddles, with water itself, dropped or skimmed along a body of water to create surface waves.
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"We are trying to do an index in the dairy space, skimmed milk powder to start with," said Fiona Boal, head of Commodities and Real Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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Michael Kors revenue dropped in recent months because of discounts in North America; although the number of handbag units the fashion company sold increased, handbag sales declined, indicating skimmed dollars on sales.
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During the worst of the flooding, Mr. Klimple, his friend, brought his boat to the ranch and they skimmed in the dark above fields and fence posts to search for his animals.
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We skimmed over information about different wavelengths of light, including radio waves and X-rays, and the law of refraction describing how light bends when entering a material like water or glass.
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One of the earliest recipes for Torun gingerbread calls for honey, "as much as you like," to be put in a bowl, heated with strong vodka and water, then skimmed until thick.
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The Complete Salesforce Mastery e-book bundle If you've worked in any sort of customer-related job in the last two decades, then you've probably at least skimmed the surface of Salesforce.
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Others may have skimmed journalist Michael Pollan's recent best-selling investigation into psychedelics, How to Change Your Mind, and decided that psychedelics will solve their problems: cure their depression, calm their anxiety.
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Ford focused on modernizing the design while renovating the home, customizing the entire kitchen, white oak staircase, concrete-skimmed walls and floor-to-ceiling doors to bring the house into the 21st century.
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Having been called out publicly by his wife in her fierce 2016 album and video, Lemonade, Jay-Z knew that his fans wouldn't have blinked if his next album skimmed past the allegations.
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The last image listed the names of all the black Americans shot by police between 1999 and 2016, a slide so dense that it could only be skimmed before the stage went dark.
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I skimmed the instructions (this is, after all, a battery-operated device that goes near your labia), which were easy enough: Turn on, trim with the 5mm comb, shave with the metal blade.
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And while those who read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic (or anyone who's skimmed the series' IMDB page) might know who Irons is, his identity creates a whole new set of questions.
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But giving BISP recipients debit cards linked to this so they could get the money from an ATM also sometimes meant that middlemen took the cards, withdrew the money and skimmed a commission.
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De Groot was able to follow the skimmed data to a Russian site registered in Belize, and he estimates the total black market value of harvested information from GOP donors is roughly $600,000.
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Mr. Nachman showed Mr. Greenberg a copy of a 2008 deposition he gave for the state's case in which he acknowledged that he had "glanced at" and "skimmed" parts of the Umansky memo.
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The money was transferred to accounts in the Philippines, and a Senate hearing there was told that nearly half a million dollars was skimmed off and packed into a bank branch manager's car.
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With no warning, a pod of humpback whales appeared in the water at the front of the boat, and skimmed over the water toward the island, almost as if to lead us in.
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As a little girl, Ms. Radabaugh recalls, she went to such events, where horses turned the crank on the press, men stoked the fire and women skimmed green foam off the simmering juice.
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Chunks and shards of ice lay heaped on the shoreline, while farther out, the surface of the lake was pancake-flat, alternately skimmed white with snow or glistening with ice that froze overnight.
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The simulants included volcanic ash from Arizona, dust skimmed from a Colorado lava flow and a glassy, lab-made powder designed by the U.S. Geological Survey for use in lunar soil studies like these.
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Quite early on, students have lessons in the weirdness in economics—from game theory to power dynamics within firms—that makes the subject fascinating and useful but are skimmed over in most introductory courses.
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Sports. Up 8-5 in the fifth set tie-breaker, Carreño Busta hit a ball which skimmed the net, landed on the line, and was called out by an official, according to the outlet.
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Ducking through intense belts of violent radiation as it skimmed over the clouds of Jupiter at 253,227 miles per hour, NASA's Juno spacecraft on Monday clinched its spot around the solar system's largest planet.
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Ducking through intense belts of violent radiation as it skimmed over the clouds of _________ at 130,000 miles per hour, NASA's Juno spacecraft on July 4 clinched its spot around the solar system's largest planet.
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If you decide to go the tile route, Mr. Odom said, be sure to hire a mason to assess the brickwork before you start, to make sure it can be skimmed and covered evenly.
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CreditCreditJason Henry for The New York Times Cottage cheese began life in America as an easy, economical way for colonial cooks to make use of milk left over after they skimmed off the cream.
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I couldn't recall how the volume landed there and I had only skimmed it previously, remembering that Tate's poems possess the essence of fairy tales: vignettes, written simply but layered with profound psychological implication.
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You might have pondered it for a few minutes as you skimmed your company's benefits handout, checking to see if your new glasses were covered or if you'll be reimbursed for your gym membership.
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The end of that decade brought the idea of the liquid diet—skimmed milk, supplemented with bananas or other fruit—which, in turn, eventually gave rise to products like Metrecal, Carnation Slender, and SlimFast.
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Some bulge outward, morphing into a cluster of perfect spheres, like oversize bubbles skimmed off the top of a bath; some sink in concave dips, suggesting valleys of miniature waves — eerie acts of biomimicry.
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The arrest of Santana is a threat to Rousseff, who is facing questions over whether her 2014 campaign was financed with bribe money skimmed off of state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
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The country's exports of pulses nearly doubled during the period to 261,016 tonnes, while dairy exports surged 75.7 percent to 152,736 tonnes due to government incentives for exports of skimmed milk powder, the agency said.
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Sensing "he might be on" the air, he did "the most conservative approach possible" and skimmed through his notes while probably trying not to pick his nose and give the world a great GIF opportunity.
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Instead of gracefully floating down the side of a mountain, paraglider Joseph Innes skimmed along the bottom of a narrow canyon, just inches away from breaking an ankle, and possibly every bone in his body.
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Responding to a persistent budget shortfall that stood at about $51 million last year, CUNY has cut down on courses, jettisoned part-time faculty members and skimmed money from student services and even laboratory supplies.
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The search giant has never shown those customers ads or skimmed their emails as it does with its free Gmail service, but some were confused about that point, according to Google Cloud SVP Diane Greene.
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In 2000, he joined H.S.B.C. Around the time he started working there, an employee named Stephen Troth, who had handled celebrity clients in Monaco, was discovered to have skimmed millions of dollars from their accounts.
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After pouring hot water over the ground coffee, he waited 45 seconds, then stirred just three times, waited another three minutes, skimmed the foam from the top of the mixture and then pressed the plunger.
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Several Uber drivers who spoke to BuzzFeed News admitted they didn't know it was against the terms of service when they started driving, saying they must have skimmed over it when signing up for the service.
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Even though I'd known it would fit—that was basically the whole point of the exercise—when I popped my head through the neck hole and saw how it skimmed over my body, I was surprised.
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Reagan's national-security team had conspired to sell American weapons to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and, after marking up the price fivefold, skimmed the proceeds and slipped them to the anti-Communist contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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The trouble with this skimmed approach is that by sidelining historical analysis, the film denies its audience the best defense against distortion, a rational necessity when interpreting a conversation that often seems to happen in code.
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If you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas or pay for snacks at any Wawa convenience store, anytime in the past nine months, your card information may have been skimmed by malware.
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This body of evidence suggests that the main factor explaining the acceptance of fake news could be cognitive laziness, especially in the context of social media, where news items are often skimmed or merely glanced at.
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It was an elegant, restorative braise of boneless short-rib bundles, thoroughly browned but pink inside, with red carrots and white Japanese turnips in an opaque broth from which every drop of fat had been skimmed.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A scandal involving inflated contracts for police meat rations underlines the abuse Afghan authorities are struggling to stop in logistics centers, where corrupt officials and contractors have skimmed fortunes from the government and foreign donors.
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The Dambusters raid was an attack on German dams in 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, using an innovative "bouncing bomb," which skimmed the surface of the reservoir before hitting the dam wall and exploding.
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The mother, who briefly skimmed at the edge of danger while carrying her child on her back, then sat quietly, watching, until later, on her own, when the tide of dancers briefly receded, she took her solo.
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I Got Skimmed in MexicoWhen I got back from vacation in Mexico, my bank sent me an alarming email with the subject…Read more ReadBut check out this skimmer found by security researcher Ben Tedesco in Vienna.
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Google announced a bunch of new hardware at its Made By Google event earlier this week, but it notably skimmed over updates to Google Assistant that will power the new Pixel 3 and Home Hub smart display.
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Early in the Obama administration, Congress gave full ownership of the federal student loan portfolio to the Department of Education, removing middlemen from the program and cutting out the profits that private banks skimmed off the system.
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"Let's say someone has skimmed a credit card and comes into your store, and the real credit card has the mag stripe and chip, but the fake one just has a mag stripe on it," Cameron said.
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I'm incredibly glad I did, because it gave me the chance to complete the game's two big DLC packs which I had previously on skimmed the surface of, and which, on paper, looked like fairly disappointing releases.
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Anecdotes about how the game "felt" were discouraged in favor of data skimmed from modeling combat mechanics and number crunching; failure to back up a mechanical theory with cold, provable facts led to mockery and moderator censure.
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His government signed at least 450 contracts from which officials skimmed off more than $65m as part of the scheme, while Mr Pérez and his vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, enjoyed vacation homes, yachts, helicopters and designer clothing.
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His left leading edge shaved off the top several inches from my vertical and skimmed the turtle-deck without touching until it impacted my right hand holding up the canopy, at well over sixty miles an hour.
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Walmart customers seem to be especially enthralled with the different attachments and the way that their home's plush, high-pile carpets are getting a much-needed deep clean after years of just being skimmed over by other vacuums.
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In a digital space, where often the only visible signifier of gender is a byline (not a reliable indicator, and in any case probably skimmed over), the question of how to be visible by leaving is pretty murky.
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He had, among other things, skimmed money from players' disability payments, Mr. Conway wrote; lent union funds to friends and associates at favorable rates; and billed the union for personal expenses, including a London apartment and Wimbledon tickets.
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He had, among other things, skimmed money from players' disability payments, Mr. Conway wrote; lent union funds to friends and associates at favorable rates; and billed the union for personal expenses, including a London apartment and Wimbledon tickets.
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My mum ironing, me in my new secondary school uniform, the fat black and red tie loosened round my neck, as I plunged gulps of orange squash down and skimmed the channels on our new Telewest digital TV package.
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In an interview on Monday afternoon, Fabiana Fairbanks, beverages business executive officer for Nestle Brazil, said the firm's Ninho and Molico brands, a milk for children and a skimmed milk, respectively, will be sold without preservatives starting this month.
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"It did not look like there would be any immediate impacts to us and our relationships, but we'll see when we read the whole thing," he said, cautioning that at that point he had only "skimmed" the Pentagon report.
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He skimmed through the court filings, which were heavily redacted, and learned that Ameen was accused of killing a police officer in Rawah, as part of an ISIS hit squad, a few months before he entered the United States.
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As of publishing time for this piece, Amazon has sent out more than 200 press releases in 2018, and I have read or skimmed nearly all of them, excluding only things that seemed like an obvious waste of my time.
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While EMV chips are far more secure than magstripe technology—the former has dynamic authentication features, while the latter allows cards to be copied (or "skimmed") with relative ease—chips are only useful in preventing CP fraud, or "card present" fraud.
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Though books have been mythologized as the one "non-database" in a world of searchable content, readers have always "skipped and skimmed" books, as Price points out, or rearranged them mentally, or composed their own tailored indexes for fast information retrieval.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Nearly a thousand protesters marched in the heart of the Malaysian capital on Saturday calling for the arrest of an unnamed high-ranking government official who U.S. investigators say received $700 million skimmed from a sovereign fund.
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"i still stand behind the idea that stannis will defeat the boltons and the freys" There's another major thing that the show sort of addressed or maybe just skimmed over, which is the issue of who wrote the Pink Letter.
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Whether you've pored through every single one of Leo Tolstoy's words or simply skimmed CliffsNotes during high school English, Lifetime, A&E, and The History Channel are now about to make you even more intimately familiar with War and Peace.
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"What people have done is taken exactly my model, skimmed it and they have a very surface-level kind of thing," Bunn told Make It, who pointed out that some of these museums even charge the exact same admission fee.
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India's skimmed milk powder (SMP) exports are expected to rise to 100,000 tonnes in the 2018/19 fiscal year as rare government incentives spur overseas sales and make shipments from the world's biggest milk producer competitive on the global market.
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In my view, what we are seeing here is a mature open-source project that has gone through its ups and downs and now, with all of the froth skimmed off, it's a tool that provides a critical piece of infrastructure for businesses.
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Johnson, the 2007 champion, ran up a triple at the par-five 13th after incurring a two-stroke penalty when his club skimmed the water as he tried to play a recovery shot out of the hazard in front of the green.
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The dish — whose Thai name, khao man gai, translates word for word as "rice fat chicken" — would be nothing without the oily slick that rises to the top of the poaching liquid and is skimmed off and reserved for cooking the rice.
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At 5 feet 6 inches and about 115 pounds, Kipchoge skimmed along the pavement with smooth, metronomic strides, breaking the previous record held by Dennis Kimetto, a fellow Kenyan, by 78 seconds — and defeating the second-place finisher by nearly 5 minutes.
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It's important for voters to differentiate between the proposals of each candidate, the economist added, because while Sanders believes the U.S. should not have billionaires, Warren's plan views the fortunes of the ultra-wealthy as something to be skimmed but ultimately retained.
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Languishing at nearly 500 in the WTA rankings, Moore saved the match point with a smash that skimmed the net tape before landing on the line — then set about clawing her way back into contention before winning 26-20 25-20 20-26.
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A higher intake of skimmed or low-fat milk, for example, was associated with a slightly higher risk of death from all causes during the study as well as a greater chance of dying from heart disease or colorectal cancer, in particular.
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In this case, agents arrested Juan Pablo Sanchez Delgado on multiple federal criminal charges, alleging that he was a ringleader of a scheme that provided undocumented workers with fake documents, funneled them to the businesses ICE eventually raided, and eventually skimmed money from their paychecks.
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Yeah, it poetically recaps Henry David Thoreau's two years (and some change) in the woods of New England, just like you remember, but the later sections (the ones you maybe skimmed as a teenager) are a mishmash of ideas and styles both experimental and exploratory.
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Mr Trump is absolutely right that shocking sums were skimmed, stolen, embezzled or wasted on projects in Afghanistan that were unwanted, unfit for purpose, quickly destroyed or soon abandoned: some $110bn in American aid between 2002-15 did almost nothing to create a sustainable economy.
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Kaspersky warns that ATMs that have been infected with Skimer are not easily distinguishable and are hard to spot, saying:In the majority of cases, criminals choose to wait and collect the data of skimmed cards in order to create copies of these cards later.
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"Once bitumen sinks to the bottom of a lake or wetland, it is much more problematic to clean up than conventional oil, which floats nicely and can be skimmed off the surface," Diane Orihel, a professor in aquatic ecotoxicology at Queen's University, told VICE News.
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There were a handful people at the bar — including a woman in sneakers and shorts who ate oysters as she skimmed Facebook on her phone, with the help of a magnifying glass she laid over it — and about five employees of the hotel and bar.
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In a 250-page plea bargain of ruling Workers' Party Senator Delcidio do Amaral, who was arrested in November for obstructing a federal investigation, the lawmaker recounts how funds allegedly skimmed from state oil company Petrobras were channeled into a massive ethanol start-up.
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In the kitchen, to give the dated linoleum floors a new look, he skimmed the surface with a pole sander to ensure the paint would stick, then primed the floor and used a yardstick and painter's tape to create thick blue-and-white stripes.
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"I was just young enough—just by a minute young enough and foolish enough—to not realize how potentially insulting that could be," Fey said, of her characterization of the over-the-top Tracy Jordan, which skimmed perilously close to her perceptions of Morgan.
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His town of Dara'a, on the border with Jordan, was primarily agricultural, and the people lived well enough in a country where choices were restricted and the economy remained in the hands of a ruling party whose cohorts skimmed what they could to enrich themselves.
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Our helicopters skimmed hilltops turned autumn golden and red, passing just over a landscape in which the homely—rice fields, schoolboys playing football in a playground, a forklift truck moving boxes—flashed past below in alternation with glimpses of gun emplacements, bunkers and battletanks in rows.
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The supermarket's Everyday Value 2 litre tub of Soft Scoop Vanilla may come in at the knock down price of 89p, but the closest you'll get to Cornish milk and cream in the ingredients is "partially reconstituted skimmed milk concentrate," mixed with palm oil and stearin.
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I latched hard onto bands that, in retrospect, barely skimmed the surface of "real" emo but spoke to me nonetheless — bands like Dashboard Confessional, who were so sad and beautiful it hurt to listen to them, or Fall Out Boy, who sang about feeling angry and rejected.
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Then there was a worry, made more sensitive by the far-right's recent inroads into German politics, that recreating the Schloss signaled a concerning nostalgia for an age when Germany was great, a view of the past that skimmed over the horrors of the 20th century.
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"We barely skimmed the surface of what was known about mammals in this region, and this devastating loss due to the fires is simply unfathomable," said Dan Brooks, a vertebrate zoologist who worked on a project to catalogue the animals that live in the Chiquitano in 2001.
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The pleasure of replaying a scene is a bit like re-reading a book; with the benefit of hindsight, you can catch the significance of details that you overlooked, or spend more time on passages that you skimmed the first time, in your rush to see what happened next.
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In the months that followed, Mr. Yousseff, encouraged by the promise of a plea deal, told prosecutors about his role as the moneyman who helped funnel billions of dollars skimmed from Brazil's state oil company, and payoffs from construction companies, to some of the country's most powerful politicians.
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Last summer, working with scientists and engineers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the boats skimmed along the edge of the retreating Arctic ice cap, giving scientists a detailed account of temperature, salinity and ecosystem information that would have been difficult and expensive to obtain in person.
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He has stiffed creditors, evaded taxes, attached his name to a bogus diploma mill, skimmed money from a fraudulent philanthropy, run afoul of campaign finance laws, signaled receptiveness to Russian interference in the 2016 election and tried to obstruct the investigation of that — all without any commensurate punishment.
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Forouzesh (who must have skimmed past Archimedes' name in his third-grade math book) alleged that Starbucks cheated its customers out of a couple of mouthfuls of iced coffee by telling its baristas to fill the cups to a designated line instead of filling them all the way to the rim.
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It featured Chris Martin, a professional skateboarder, gliding through the dark, cluttered basement of Christie's, kicking up his board as he skimmed by a Warhol, high-fiving an art handler as he passed a Rudolf Stingel, and tumbling from his board after executing a boardslide near a Kippenberger self-portrait.
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While that era of hip-hop, arguably the bloodiest and most dangerous in the genre's history, has been covered in depth before—most recently in last year's glossy biopic Straight Outta Compton—many details have been left out or skimmed over, according to Westhoff, leaving the door open for a closer look.
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That three-digit card verification value — or a CVV — on the back of your credit card is usually your last line of defense if someone steals your credit card number, such as if your card is cloned or skimmed by a dodgy ATM or stolen from a website through a phishing attack.
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EMV is a pain but the supposed addition ... I'm willing to wait the few extra seconds, some people have really strong opinions about how long it takes for chip readers to work but I personally don't mind waiting a few extra seconds if it means I have less chance of my credit card getting skimmed.
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Even if you've never paused to read the ingredient label on a nail polish before tossing it in your shopping cart (you're always in such a rush at Target, and plus, is text that small even readable?), chances are you've skimmed a scary headline exposing the potentially harmful toxins hiding inside the fun-sized glass bottles.
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Chinese Vice Minister Hu Wei and Indian Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan are leading the talks on the farm products as part of a broader trade package "India's primary interest is exporting skimmed milk products and for China it is apples," one of the officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the discussions.
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Here's how the calories compare in 100ml of various milks, in ascending order:Unsweetened almond milk: 13Coconut milk: 20Cashew milk: 23Hemp milk: 26Sweetened almond milk: 27Unsweetened soya milk: 33Skimmed cows' milk: 37Sweetened soya milk: 39Rice milk: 47Semi-skimmed cows' milk: 50Oat milk: 57Whole milk: 66Of course, these numbers will vary slightly depending on the brand you buy.
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She wandering, hosting, raising children connected to new mobilities and most unusual these movements in Treme', New Orleans was a incubating, enmeshed embedded in this silken cocoon when she land, she's came to be parachute mender, landed those black immigrant peddlers from Hoogali network of new comers If you skimmed any of that title, I urge you to take it from top.
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Ocasio-Cortez likely skimmed the study from which the $21 trillion figure comes and saw it as a way to make a broader point about how our government is totally fine spending trillions of dollars -- much of which is not well accounted for -- on defense, but blanches at the cost of creating a national insurance program to cover all Americans.
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Finally, the opponent hit a shorter shot that angled well off the side of the table and Jha deftly stepped in, swinging his racket on the backhand and sending an off-balance return so loaded with spin that the ball bent around the net — not over it — like a crescent before it skimmed off the edge of the table on the opponent's side.
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In an age of rising rents and stagnating wages, after corporations just got a big handout from the Republican tax bill with much less relief for struggling families, as income inequality continues to ensure that the profit of our economic productivity is skimmed off by those at the top, the era of such incentive deals may be coming to an end.
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So right now, Jason, if I'm using a debit card that's issued by my bank but it's Visa debit card, and let's say that card is skimmed, which maybe won't be as much of an issue in the future because of EMV, which the U.S. has been slow to adopt but that is supposed to help against things like skimming or physical fraud.
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It captured my seventh-grade son's attention as he skimmed the front page, and we ended up snuggled in bed, reading every last word of this lengthy story about a chirp from a billion light-years away that proved not only Einstein's theory about black holes and space-time, but also that humans have the power to sustain a dream that can transform imagination.
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The dialogue always goes something like this: A person argues it shouldn't exist any longer, loosely citing a study or article they skimmed, then a devil's advocate jump in with a defense of why no, it's actually good, and did you know that it started in World War I to conserve fuel for electric power, and not because Benjamin Franklin alluded to it in the 1700s?
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The Russian has said he thought Mr. Bouvier was acting as his agent, on commission, in such sales, but instead he said he later found that Mr. Bouvier had skimmed as much as $123 billion in profits by quietly buying the paintings himself first, then reselling them to his Russian client at escalated prices, according to court papers filed by lawyers for Mr. Rybolovlev.
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Dutifully, I underlined the famous phrase "so it goes" as it was repeated again and again after every death in the book — from the death of a fizzed-out bottle of champagne to the deaths of people killed in a massacre — and with a puzzled eye I skimmed over Billy Pilgrim's abduction by the Tralfamadorians, the little green aliens shaped like toilet plungers who see all of time at once.
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She both obsesses over The Pickwick Papers—a picaresque novel like her own—and riffs on her dislike of A.S. Byatt's best-seller Possession: As I skimmed it my face was contorted by sneers, and after skipping to the end to make sure the heroine really was the direct descendant of the vigorously adulterous dead poets and heiress to their fortunes, I resolved to write a novel myself.
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Maybe that's because, well, book buyers know that his recommendations aren't based on merit or how much he enjoyed a book (That doesn't mean the books he recommends aren't good; just that Trump hasn't read them or even skimmed them enough to know that.) Trump recommends books the same way he lives his life: Transactionally -- and always with an eye on punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends.
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Firstly: the walls look freshly skimmed with plaster and the floor looks un-scuffed, and everything is tastefully muted modern greys and clean white paint, and also two of the photos of the fireplace show one with a trailing wire and an electrical socket hanging out of the wall, and one with a neat boxed-off wire to the fireplace and the electrical socket screwed in, meaning people have been working on and taking photos of this place by the day, meaning it has been designed, meaning this space has been custom-built to sustain a small miserable amount of human life and I'm still not 1000 percent sure it can do that seeing as there is nowhere to either shit or sleep— – I have never seen "Number of beds: 0" listed on the Gumtree website before, and I'm puzzled as to why that would be an option in the drop down box for whoever created this advert (Gumtree: wys?), but yeah: there is no bed here.
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