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chills
asked a Californian court to declare that the French legal decisions had no force against the American parent company, which it did, laying down that the French court “may not enforce a foreign order that... chills protected speech [occurring] simultane
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calafrios
chime
Mark: Right and so if we were talking about the weather, I would chime in then, along the same vain, or in the same vain I hear we’ll be having a thunderstorm tonight.
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aderir
chimes
... of sounds like wind chimes as they walk through.
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n. harmonia de sons; carrilhão v. discar; aderir (também a conversa)
chimpanzees
Chimpanzees don't teach.
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chimpanzés
china
... table settings-- the" good china"-- for Thanksgiving.
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porcelana
chipping
... highly resistant to peeling, chipping, and fading.
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lascar
chirp
... get a very simple chirp: whoop!
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s. gorjeio; trilo
chirping
... flowing][birds and insects chirping][heart beating slowly][safety...
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gorjear
chiseled
A sculpture begins with a solid block of material from which bits are carved or chiseled away to reveal a 3-D shape.
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esculpir; enganar, ludibriar
choked
... moving in a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.
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engasgou
chomping
... that I have been chomping on since the last...
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mastigando
chopper
I’ve got mixed emotions with him so far.” Walking out of Snap-on’s headquarters, through the chanting crowd, I wondered whether Trump could see the protesters from his chopper.
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cutelo, talhador
chord
... you've struck a massive chord here.
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acorde
chronicle
Mattie Storin, "Chronicle".
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Crônica
chronicled
For reasons chronicled elsewhere, I have adopted the customs of keeping a pen clipped to my collar pretty much all the time and writing exclusively in purple ink.
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relatado, registrado em crônica
chuckled
She chuckled.
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rir, dar risadas
chugging
Mark: You are chugging up a hill, but then there’s a sense of satisfaction of getting up to the top of the hill.
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mover-se com ruido
chump
... mean, these are not chump change folks.
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Pessoa estúpida, pateta
churn
... ideal plan, whether they churn at a certain rate...
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instrumento para fazer manteiga
cingulate
... fires the pregenual anterior cingulate, a watershed part of...
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cingulado
circa
This is Tim Ferriss circa 1979 A. D.
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aproximadamente, mais ou menos
circumvent
Downing Street did not say what the leaders discussed, but political analysts see the meeting as a desperate last bid by May to circumvent the commission and curry favor for her plan.
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contornar
cite
... industry, many observers will cite two reasons.
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citar.
clams
... its beaches rich with clams.
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mexilhão
clapboard
That was, until I spotted the Carolina Country Store, a charmer of a white clapboard general store with a sign outside advertising boiled peanuts.
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ripa de madeira
classy
Put It on Ice But a classy hotel is much more than a place to sleep, and at the prices of these rooms, you’d better get much more than a sleeping bag.
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adj. elegante, refinado, na moda
clatters
... quiet explosion]-[glass clatters]-[gunshot]-[bullet whistles] That's...
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s. confusão, barulho, ruído v. fazer barulho; tagarelar
claw
“Don’t emerge red in tooth and claw.
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arranhar, unhar
claws
... hands look like primitive claws grasping onto the bar.
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arranhar, unhar garra, unha; saca-pregos; alicate
cleanly
Because the labels are tamper-resistant, they cannot be removed cleanly, making resale of stolen goods more difficult.
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limpo, completamente
cleansing
... slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
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limpeza
clear cut
... reality is not so clear- cut.
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bem definido, nítido
clearing
... flew over land without clearing the rights of the...
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s. terra arada; clareira; esclarecimento; justificação; liquidação
cleats
If the field is frozen then your cleats don’t dig in and you just slide.
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chuteiras
cleave
... grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present...
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fender/ separar
clement
... but more or less clement.
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clemente
clench
plexus and that clench in my stomach.
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cerrar
clergy
So, they had no clergy.
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clero
clerkships
For many, the topic feels personal: one of the law school's top professors, Amy Chua, has been accused of coaching female students on their appearances to help them win clerkships with Kavanaugh.
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secretarias
cling
I’m like, founder isn’t really a role, it’s not really a title I like, I’m the CEO of the company today and I may not necessarily be the best CEO of the company tomorrow, and a lot of founders it’s for them, it’s very much like they cling on to that
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pegar-se; unir-se; aderir
clinging
Fungi married algae... clinging to rock, and eating...
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pegar-se; unir-se; aderir
clique
... paints as a corrupt clique of Venezuela- admiring, economically...
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panelinha
cliques
... still get these little cliques forming?
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panelinhas
cloaking
There is no system that will replace faulty men with perfect angels, but the stateless society, by rewarding goodness and punishing evil, will at least ensure that all devils are visible – instead of cloaking them in the current deadly fog of power,
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camuflagem
closures
Unlike subways, they require an absolute minimum of disruptive street closures (and no digging).
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fechamentos
clot
... lytic for dissolving blood clot was supposed to be...
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coágulo
clout
Having unfettered access to a pistol, which looked like a source of pride, a tool of power, something that would give me the sort of independence, the sort of power, the sort of clout that would help me to somehow look at myself as someone that had m
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respaldo, influência, poder
clover
I mean, it’s not — no one’s living in clover on $11 an hour, but that’s a positive.
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trevo
cluelessness
How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness Did you see the...
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Falta de noção
clump
beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her growing out of a clump of
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moita
clumps
Cut a slice from one of the hard clumps and you’ll see tiny white veins running through the otherwise solid interior.
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aglomerados
clumsiness
The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term as governor of Indiana, for which he did som
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falta de jeito
clumsy
But just getting started — as clumsy as my initial attempts were — was enough.
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adj. massivo, pesado, volumoso; deselegante, desajeitado
clung
... a surname which has clung to me because I...
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pegar-se; unir-se; aderir
clunky
remember when we could only afford, you know, to buy that clunky old car,
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desajeitado
clutter
out the clutter of your mind, you access your own wisdom.
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aglomeração, aglomerado, barafunda, confusão, entulho
coal
There were no animals on board but sometimes they were coal heated so it was very basic.
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carvão
coating
... street, was Hudson Powder Coating.
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cobertura
coatings
... violet, you know, whatever coatings they put on the...
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s. camada, cobertura, revestimento
coaxed
Patients are coaxed to visit clinics, even...
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persuadido
cobbled
The problem is so painful that they’ve cobbled together an interim solution.
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pavimentado, remendar; pavimentar com pedras ou paralelepípedos
cockeyed
If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your...
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Cockeyed, empenado
coddling
Being kind also doesn’t mean you’re coddling yourself and letting
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Mimando
coffers
At the heart of the “state capture” investigations is the shameless abuse of power and the colossal plundering of state coffers by Jacob Zuma and a cartel of cronies, including the all-powerful Gupta family, writes Jane Flanagan South Africa's descen
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v. guardar em cofre, guardar em armário s. cofre, caixa-forte
cog
Rather than sit in the dark room and just be part of a cog in a machine that was going to take forever to output some theory that may or may not be disproven 50 years later, I wanted to be able to go out and do something that was impactful and would
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roda dentada
cohesion
Mutual respect is an important part of the mood of Japanese society, and a large reason for their social cohesion and success.
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coesão
cohort
It keeps us connected to our friends and our cohort.
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grupo
colicky
... notifications-- 00:20(Laughter) 00:21 a miserable, colicky baby who would only...
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que contrai cólicas
collage
... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present...
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colagem
comatose
Had Kennedy survived being shot, and been left comatose, there would have been no legal way to allow others to assume his powers.
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comatoso, em estado de coma
comedown
Steve: I’m not really, but no, that would be a big comedown.
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descida, caída; anticlímax, regressão...
commandment
... to violate TED's first commandment of selling, so I'm...
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mandamento
commencement
I’m sure we’ll have lots of opportunities to remember him and everything he... Everyone’s seen his commencement speech, right?
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Dia de formatura
commend
And first, I commend you on your model...
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v. glorificar, elogiar; recomendar, sugerir; entregar às mãos de alguém
commendable
... recognize the generosity and“ commendable efforts” of Venezuela's neighbours...
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louvável
commiserating
... good bartenders do: he's commiserating with us, making us...
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solidarizando
committees
... of strata title and committees that you sit on...
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comitê, conselho
commonality
... on everything is on commonality, the sense that we...
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associação;
commons
... in Canada's House of Commons.
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bens comuns; área pública
commuting
So I went back to Moscow for two years and I’ve been sort of ‘commuting' between the two countries ever since.
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s. viagens diárias (para o trabalho)
compass
Other inventions like the compass permitted them to sail out of sight of land.
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bússola
compelling
It’s the name of a French publishing house, a character in Sergei Prokofiev’s opera, The Love for Three Oranges, and a film by Werner Herzog composed solely of desert landscape images. The enduring popularity of the term shows how compelling it
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convincente
compellingly
... of— weird, inventive, and compellingly sane.
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convincentemente
completeness
The C stands for completeness.
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plenitude
compliance
All the DRO has to do is report Stan’s non-compliance to the local contract-rating company, who will enter his name into a database of contract violators.
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cumprimento
compliment
... payoff is exactly the compliment of another player's payoff.
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v. cumprimentar, elogiar, lisonjear, louvar s. cumprimento, elogio, lisonja
complimentarily
... He didn't mean it complimentarily, but Joe put it...
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complimentariamente
complimentary
They're extremely complimentary, I think, from a...
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gratuito
complying
... marijuana businesses who are complying with state law and...
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cumprimento
comprising
... a military task force comprising Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali,...
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Composta
compromise
It is a story of strongly held ideas and a lack of compromise.
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v. abrir mão, ceder; acertar, aceitar, acordo, compromisso
concave
But the problem with such an approach is that you can only affect the outside surface of an object; hollow or deeply concave areas, or oddly shaped interior cavities are difficult or impossible to achieve.
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côncavo
conceal
Yet it is impossible to conceal the sheer physical strain of the Presidency.
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v. esconder, ocultar
concealed
... the power that is concealed within the present moment.
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escondido, oculto.
concerted
... working together with a concerted mindset, through the people,...
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acertada, conbinada
conch
In Belize they have conch, big conch shells everywhere on the ocean floor and that’s one of the main foods that they serve at the restaurants there is conch.
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concha
concierge
Every single brochure, visitor’s guide, and concierge will warn you, repeatedly and in the strongest possible terms, not to enter the cemeteries alone or at night.
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porteiro
concoction
... the spongy white cornmeal concoction that is the staple...
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preparação, mistura,
condo
Most individuals bind themselves to dozens of contracts, from car loans and mortgages to cell phone contracts, gym membership, condo agreements and so on.
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s. quarto em apartamento compartilhado
condoning
... document is tantamount to condoning theft.
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perdoando; desculpando
conducive
It’s quieter, cleaner, safer, more conducive to exercise and human interaction, and for a long list of other reasons, a happier and more peaceful place to live.
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propício
confide
... I'm going to confide in you, am I?
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v. confiar em; confiar a; contar segredo, confiar um segredo
congealed
But it has been amazingly successful in one regard, in that it has become, it has congealed into this endangered people’s movement that was missing in the 20th century.
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congelada
congenial
... a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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compatível, apropriado, adequado, agradável, aceitável, amigável
conked
... times my iMovie, basically, conked out at five minutes...
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parou de funcionar, quebou
conked out
... times my iMovie, basically, conked out at five minutes and...
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to conk out a) entrar em pane, enguiçar. b) dormir.
conk out
So if I conk out, goodbye; otherwise, I'll continue...
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entrar em pane
connoisseur
... you are a wine connoisseur.
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conhecedor
conscripted
They’re not conscripted; they’re not forced to go there that’s their job.
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recrutados
conscripts
... voters and neither can conscripts during their
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recrutas
consort
Why do we consort with socialists tonight?
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marido, parceiro
conspicuous
But instead of commendations, I found a conspicuous comment scrawled at the top of the paper: “Your french spelling is unacceptable”.
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extravagante, ostensivo, visível, que chama a atenção
conspicuously
Liberal technocrats contrive endless clever policy fixes, but they remain conspicuously aloof from the people they are supposed to be helping.
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conspicuamente (obviamente)
constable
Erm It’s all right, Constable.
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policial recruta
constituencies
... and Israeli women mobilizing constituencies for peace and promoting...
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eleitorados
constituency
... have put his core constituency, that is Canada's French...
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seção eleitoral; eleitorado
constituents
... the needs of its constituents, they have a chance...
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cliente, eleitor
constraint
When you're given this constraint and this constraint is...
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limitação
contempt
... upside down, seemingly showing contempt for gravity.
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desprezo, desdém; descaso
contend
... of change True liberals contend that societies can change...
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afirmar, sustentar, competir, lutar
contenders
Plenty of contenders.
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competidores
contentedly
... was a butterfly, flying contentedly
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alegremente
contentious
And even if they stuck around, a post-mortem is very contentious.
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controverso
contingency
The move is the latest sign of multinational companies taking contingency actions because of concerns about the fallout from Brexit.
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contingência
contrived
... on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the...
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inventado
conundrum
solve this conundrum by focusing development and early selling efforts on a very small group of early
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enigma, charada, questão
convene
The bill has no chance of coming up for a vote anytime soon, but its sponsors believe that they have a constitutional duty to convene a body to assess Trump’s health.
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convocar
convened
The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia was convened to solve these matters through a never-before-seen system of government.
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reunir, agregar, convergir.
convenes
Because I think history convenes a tribunal of our...
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Se reúne
conventicles
... outed for nonconformity holding conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and...
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conventicles
conversant
I didn’t think he seemed to be conversant.
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1 familiarizado, conhecedor, proficiente. 2 ligado, relacionado.
conversely
Conversely, many people who rent dogs do so in order to make sure the animals will fit into their households and lifestyles before making a permanent commitment.
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Inversamente
conveyors
conveyors and carousels transporting food items off the shelves to workers who packed them for
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transportadores
cooing
... thenthey're really smiling and cooing and starting to make...
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arrulhar = murmúrios, gemidos
cookware
... products in your home— cookware, for instance— they have...
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utensílios de cozinha
cooler
“Everything with me is, like, I’m either flying private jets or I’m in the cooler!
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refrigerador
cools
... of the oven and cools to the touch, it's...
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esfria
cooties
Even though I can’t proclaim universal standards of handshake meaning, I’d like to do my small part by offering you this easy guide to what my gestures of greeting mean: * Handshake: “This is my hand.” * Handshake refused: “I’ve got MUNI/motor
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piolho
cop out
cop out
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apague
copper
... at the San José Copper Mine in Northern Chile...
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cobre
cord
... box in the spinal cord where new wires, new...
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cordão
cores
Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores – vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths – from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.
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núcleos
cork
... you can't put the cork back in?
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cortiça, rolha
cornered
... gave when I was cornered, when it was difficult...
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encurralado
cornerstone
this is the cornerstone of my coaching practice and what I teach is really
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pedra angular; pedra fundamental
cornerstones
AGOA and MCC are cornerstones really of the administration's...
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alicerce
cornmeal
... ugali, the spongy white cornmeal concoction that is the...
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fubá
cornstarch
... flour and water, or cornstarch and water.
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amido de milho
corny
Because we all know, corny as that sounds, the...
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Sentimental
corpora
... arrival of these fastcomputer-generated corpora, all of a sudden...
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coleção de escritos
corpses
From there, the inevitable next step was to human corpses, and sure enough, a Swedish company recently announced plans to offer just such a service, which they claim is much more environmentally friendly than either embalming or cremation.
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Cadáveres;
corroding
That is one reason loyalty to mainstream parties is corroding.
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corroendo
corrugated
... it was like iron corrugated, and he would put...
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enrugado, ondulado
corrugations
... feet tall here, with corrugations that can be used...
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ondulações
cosmetic
... was the number one cosmetic above nose jobs at 239,900...
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cosmético
cosy
He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform...
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acolhedor
cougars
Cougars roamed the forests.
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Pumas
councilmen
... Mayor, Vice- Mayor and Councilmen for a term of...
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Vereadores
counterfeit
... simple research-- that the counterfeit customer was not our...
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falsificado
counterfeiter
When he was in the Fed, a counterfeiter told him he ought to reinvent himself as a lobbyist (“What do they do?
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falsificador
counterfeits
... medications, are they actually counterfeits?"
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falsificadores
countering
Most people that have money, they still end up empty.’ ” Dykstra tried countering Pedroza’s religious messaging with the example of his pious ex-teammate Gary Carter, who died of brain cancer, in 2012.
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neutralização
countertop
... find on the kitchen countertop.
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bancada
countrymen
... suggested that his northern countrymen were physically unable to...
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compatriota
coup
Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan...
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golpe
coupled
But the convenience of a system, coupled with its fee structure, are the main factors in determining a system’s success.
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acoplado
courant
... published the" New England Courant."
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corrente
courtly
... when the tradition of courtly love flourished.”
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nobre, fidalgo
courtship
... has a very odd courtship repertoire.
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corte, galanteio, namoro
covenants
The two Covenants on civil and political...
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convênios
coverup
In 1972, Nixon’s White House oversaw the bugging of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex and the ensuing coverup.
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cobrir
coveted
... party and the most coveted youth demographic, sub-30.
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v. desejar, cobiçar; invejar
cozying up to
cozying up to
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aproximando-se
crabby
... I start to feel crabby and anxious.
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sério, raivoso, brigão (irritadiço?)
crackdown
The unrest appears to be abating after a government crackdown.
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repressão
cracker
I turned up my nose at sliced cheese served on a cracker, which seemed unnatural.
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tipo de biscoito
cracking
Well, no, I think there is a very positive and much-needed step of at least cracking open the door of some dialogue.
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Crack - quebrar, rachar
crafty
Jill: They like to be crafty and so, you know, that kind of stuff.
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adj. astuto, esperto
crammed
... migrants who have been“ crammed” into island reception centres,...
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abarrotado, cheio
crampons
Steven: Well, we had crampons and ice axes with...
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grampos de ferro (colocado nos sapatos para neve)
crane
Hanging from a crane across Denny Way.
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guindaste
cranes
The good news, for what it’s worth, is after Sergio and 21 others were killed that day in the attack on the U.N., the military created a search and rescue unit that had the cutting equipment, the shoring wood, the cranes, the things that you would ha
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guindaste/ pássaro
crank out
crank out
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marcha para fora
cranky
For all the parents of teenagers who have wondered about their sons and daughters being cranky and moody, there may be a partial remedy afoot.
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adj. estranho; raivoso; maldoso; irritado; mal-humorado
crap
... or like if you're crap detector went off, it'll...
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bosta, besteira, sujeira
crap out
crap out
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cagar
crappy
And I thought that’s a pretty crappy business, like whether or not this guy is going to make money in a given month it’s based on how many days it rains.
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sórdido; cagado
craven
... a small group of craven politicians putting the interests...
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covarde
crawl
That night I could hardly crawl into bed, I was so tired and sore. I often noticed that some foreigners who studied Japanese reached the peak of their language capability at the end of their period of language learning.
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engatinhar; rastejar; dar passos de tartaruga: slow pace
crawled
... I went home, I crawled into bed and this...
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rastejou, engatinhou
crawling
... chameleon spent two weeks crawling up the cord getting...
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rastejando
crayfish
... the same in a crayfish, a bird or you.
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lagostim
creed
... never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards,...
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credo, crença
creep
When the news reveals that one such dude “might have been a creep at Yale,” she added, “it doesn't shatter any illusions.” On Monday, an open letter from alumnae who stand in support of Ramirez—and Ford—began to circulate online.
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v. rastejar, arrastar-se no chão; deslizar; arrepiar, horripilar; trepar (planta)
creeps
But if corruption creeps in and people don't...
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rasteja, arrasta-se, arrepios
creepy
coming off as creepy.
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horripilante, que causa arrepios; rastejante
crestfallen
They took me in - my mother and father - their crestfallen, crushed and sullen, French-speaking son.
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deprimido, desapontado
crevice
... a fish into a crevice in the coral, it...
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fenda, racha
crickets
Sometimes my comment section is like crickets.
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grilos
cringe
My first few posts are cringe-worthy.
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