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  • 21report — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from reporter to bring back, report, from Latin reportare, from re + portare to carry more at fare Date: 14th century 1. a. common talk or an account spread by common talk ; rumor b. quality… …

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  • 22Intelligence analysis — This article deals with the intellectual process of analysis itself, as opposed to intelligence analysis management, which, in turn, is a subcomponent of intelligence cycle management. For a complete hierarchical list of articles in this series,… …

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  • 23Heideggerian terminology — Contents 1 Terms 1.1 Aletheia 1.2 Being in the World 1.3 …

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  • 24List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L — Differences between American and British English American English …

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  • 25Existence (Philosophy of) 3 — Philosophy of existence 3 Merleau Ponty Bernard Cullen à Henri Godin LIFE AND WORKS Maurice Merleau Ponty was born on 14 March 1908 into a petty bourgeois Catholic family in Rochefort sur Mer on the west coast of France. When he died suddenly, at …

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  • 26push — vb Push, shove, thrust, propel mean to use force upon a thing so as to make it move ahead or aside. Push implies the application of force by a body (as a person) already in contact with the body to be moved onward, aside, or out of the way {push… …

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  • 27stoop — I. /stup / (say stoohp) verb (i) 1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forwards and downwards from an erect position: to stoop over a desk. 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forwards: to stoop from age. 3. to …

  • 28descend — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de + scandere to climb more at scan Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one < descended from the platform …

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  • 29self-service — noun Date: 1919 the serving of oneself (as in a restaurant or gas station) with goods or services to be paid for at a cashier s desk or by means of a coin operated mechanism • self service adjective …

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  • 30get — I. verb (got; got or gotten; getting) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse geta to get, beget; akin to Old English bigietan to beget, Latin prehendere to seize, grasp, Greek chandanein to hold, contain Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a …

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