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oneself
It’s a popular place to find oneself after South Africa.
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si mesmo, a si próprio
onesies
Onesies and sleepers.
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macacãozinho de bebê
onset
... that we know the onset of the image and...
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começo, princípio, ataque
onslaught
... experiences, hearing about the onslaught against defenders in Egypt...
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ataque, assalto
onstage
... the leaders are all onstage, then the Americans are...
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no palco
on the eve of
I believe that now, on the eve of a new millennium, it...
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na véspera de
ooze
... in a wider watery ooze.
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lodo
oozing
... different vowels scooching and oozing around in the Cambodian...
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s. gotejamento, infiltração
op ed
op ed
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Op ed
opponents
... field Jeter wished his opponents luck in the post...
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Oponentes
opt
a little bit more of a taste, you can go ahead and opt in for free for
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optar
optimizing
I think instead of optimizing for things like evaluation,...
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otimizar
orchards
In 19th century England, when industrial smokestacks began belching fumes into the orchards of apple farmers, the farmers took the factory-owners to court, citing the common-law tradition of restitution for property damage.
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pomares
ordaining
IX – prepare and carry out national and regional plans for the ordaining of the territory
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ordenando
ordeal
... have been through this ordeal, and they have had...
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Provação; experimentação
or even stick out their tongues
or even stick out their tongues
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ou até mesmo furar a língua para fora
otherness
00:47 In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil. The good was my church and its members, and the evil was everyone else. My church’s antics were such that we were constantly at odds with the world, and that reinforced
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alteridade
otherworldly
... comes at me with otherworldly strength.
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do outro mundo, sobrenatural
otters
... Sea otters use tools and they...
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Lontras
outage
So if there were a power outage, the house would have electricity only during the day.
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parada, interrupção
outages
Officials warned of power outages that could affect hundreds of thousands of people by the weekend.
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interrupcao
outbursts
with excessive eating, drinking or maybe angry outbursts.
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explosões
outcasts
When the conflict is over, they are outcasts in their own communities. In some countries, former child soldiers have access to rehabilitation programs to help them locate their families, go to school or receive job training.
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Marginais
outcropping
(It turned out that an Austrian couple hidden under a rock outcropping was watching the whole time.)
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Afloramento
outcry
... Public outcry over air pollution galvanized...
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clamor
outfitted
... hills of Africa or outfitted for diving under the...
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equipado
outflow
He was there in Bangladesh dealing with the outflow of millions of refugees -- the largest refugee flow in history up to that point.
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derramamento; fluxo; corrente
outhouse
... layered bunks, have an outhouse, you know?
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anexo; banheiro externo
outhouses
Outhouses would not be much fun, as the exterior temperature frequently reaches –40°.
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casas velhas
outing
Mark: Don’t tell anyone, but talking about the company outing that we’'re going to be having in August.
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excursão; saída
outings
that he needs to show up for family outings.
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excursão, passeio
outlawed
So instead, people began to wear paperclips on their lapels—symbolizing both national pride and “sticking together.” When the Nazis realized that paperclips were a sign of solidarity against the occupation, they outlawed the practice.
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ilegal; que foi declarado fora-da-lei
outlaws
Although this celebration does not mean a city outlaws cars for a day, it does encourage people to go without using their cars for one day each year in order to raise awareness of the possibilities of car-free existence.
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proibir
outlays
... Local Councilmen and excluding outlays on retired personnel, may...
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gastos, despesas
outlet
Todd: Exactly, social outlet.
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s. saída; escape; desabafo; tomada (em eletricidade)
outlets
... action against online media outlets including Facebook and Twitter...
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saída; escape; desabafo; tomada (em eletricidade)
outlier
You will be an outlier of society if you steal petrified wood.
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One that lives or is located outside or at the edge of a given area
outliers
... do we eliminate the outliers so we can find...
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discrepantes
outlived
... such social titles have outlived their usefulness altogether.
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sobrevivido, esgotou, ultrapassou
outlying
Public transit was still good, but now I needed to get across the bay to shop at IKEA, go to a doctor’s appointment across town, or run a quick errand to an outlying city that would take me half a day on the train.
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distante
outmoded
... to perpetuate the long- outmoded belief that adult women...
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antiquado; fora de moda
outnumbered
... from that six percent, outnumbered calls from our side 10...
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em inferioridade numérica
outpouring
... and based on the outpouring of people who have...
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derramamento
outrage
... they were full of outrage, they were full of...
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ultraje, indignação, revolta, insulto, afronta
outraged
... because they were just outraged.
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horrorizado
outrageously
... be made to look outrageously colorful.
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escandalosamente
outreach
And we spend all of our efforts thinking about research and teaching and outreach efforts all related to high-tech entrepreneurship.
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divulgação
outright
Rejecting Mr Bolsonaro outright would be the best...
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claro, absoluto, direto; total, completamente, abertamente, diretamente
outrun
I’m going to be able to outrun this.
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ultrapassar
outset
At the outset, the startup business model is a canvas covered with ideas and guesses, but it has no customers and
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começo
outsource
... and then finally, just outsource it.
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terceirizar
outspoken
And there’s a lot of people - outspoken people talking about, there needs to be more innovation in Silicon Valley.
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franco
outstretched
Hey, bro!”—with an outstretched five-dollar bill and what turned out to be an extended series of requests: Train, the Rolling Stones, Elton John.
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estendido
outstrip
... of resettlement still significantly outstrip the number of places...
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ultrapassar, exceder
outstripped
Human beings have built civilizations during a 7,000-year period of unprecedented climate stability, but since the Industrial Revolution, the rate of climate change has far outstripped the pace of adaptation.
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superado, ultrapassado
outstripping
... cause of disability globally-- outstripping cancer, outstripping heart disease.
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ultrapassando
outward
Success means both inner success — because by the time you end with something that works you’re in a much better place psychologically than when you began, and in a much better place creatively, and spiritually, and so on — then it also adds up to ou
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exteriormente, para fora
outwardly
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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Para fora
outweigh
But the headaches of car ownership had begun to outweigh the benefits.
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superam, prevalecer sobre
outweighed
Lance Dodes, a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes that, in this instance, the Goldwater rule is outweighed by another ethical commitment: a “duty to warn” others when he assesses that a person might
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v. subir sobre (com seu valor, com seu peso); pesar mais que-; resolver, decidir
ovals
... and new skating rinks, ovals, for speed skating are...
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ovais
overarching
And the entire overarching theme of this class is that all problems are opportunities; the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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dominante, abrangente, universal
over arching
... is not the larger, over- arching thing.
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abrangente, geral
overblowing
... Hey, these guys are overblowing it.
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torrencial
overblown
Other scientists say that worries about global warming are overblown—that the temperature will not rise significantly (at least, not due to human activity), and that in any case, the results of a slightly increased average temperature would be mild r
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exagerado
overburdened
... for someone who was overburdened.
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sobrecarregado
overcast
But, even if it’s overcast, it’s just the white blanket everywhere and it’s still and if you are snowshoeing and you can get off the trail, you are in the woods with nobody around.
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nublado; escuro; triste; melancólico
overcrowding
... poor sanitation, the massive overcrowding, the way these people...
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superlotação
overdue
... no- brainer, a long- overdue exercise— one that we...
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atrasado
overhanging
For another, overhanging structures are a problem, because if the laser draws a pattern onto an area of the polymer without a solid surface beneath it, the resulting patch, when hardened, will either float away or sink.
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ressltar, sobressair, ficar preso sobre
overhaul
... justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull...
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v. reparar; fazer revisão geral
overhyped
Or the time when I found Oaxaca jam-packed and overhyped and took a bus into the Mexican countryside, asking the driver to suggest a nice town with no tourists.
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exagerada
overkill
That's overkill.
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excessivo; exagerado
overlaid
... can see the constellations overlaid and again, so many...
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sobreposta
overlap
And I think that the two overlap enough so that if you have only one or the other you might learn something about the other one, so I think that can be very useful and very helpful for you.
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sobreposição
overlay
... technology, Akamai with its overlay routing network, all of...
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sobreposição
overpowered
I've overpowered his elite guard, burst...
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dominado
overran
Israel then invaded and overran the U.N.
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exceder, ultrapassar, invadir.
override
Using a controller on the handlebars, riders can, if they wish, adjust the gearing to provide a more intense workout or a gentler ride; they can also override the automatic shifting entirely and use it as a power-assisted manual transmission.
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Sobrepor
overruns
Any city that wants to host the Olympics has to agree to cover cost overruns.
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derrapagens
overshadowed
... of that was only overshadowed by my return to...
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v. sombrear, ofuscar, eclipsar, escurecer; subestimar; proteger, abrigar
oversight
... ban on vouchers, federal oversight How do you expect...
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supervisão, fiscalização, descuido
overstate
It is impossible to overstate the importance of Canadian...
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exagerar
overt
Nobody occupies the White House without criticism, but Trump is besieged by doubts of a different order, centering on the overt, specific, and, at times, bipartisan discussion of whether he will be engulfed by any one of myriad problems before he has
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adj. observável, visível, claro; público
overtakes
When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT.
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ultrapassar, tomar conta (por exemplo, tomada de emoções)
overthrew
... to the streets and overthrew their longtime dictator, Suharto.
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derrubou
overthrow
... violent insecurity since the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddaffi...
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causar a queda (de um governo, de um objeto) / derrubar
overtly
... PEP is not an overtly religious organization, although most...
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manifestamente
overtone
At the same time, it is ironic perhaps, I say ironic because in one sense, many Europeans are always astonished about the, and troubled by the religious overtone of some of our political discourse and how at times obsessed Americans seem to be with r
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Sobre-tons
overture
... find anywhere soon on Overture, which is the classic...
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Abertura, prelúdio
overturns
News Wrap: Sports court overturns Olympic doping bans for 28...
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derruba
overwatch
Overwatch for Delta.
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overwatch
overwhelming
In fact the overwhelming majority of jobs are...
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decisivo; avassalador; opressivo.
oyster
As the tide goes out all the clams and sand dollars and gooey ducks which are a kind of oyster all kind of …I think people… we’ve gone out digging for them before when we’ve been there, have we not?
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ostra
oysters
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Ostras
packed
Jill: Oh yeah, it's packed, but it was great.
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cheio, apertado, (lugar)
pack up your wagons
... you're going to actually pack up your wagons and go somewhere, make...
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arrumar seus vagões
pacts
... the dollar and trade pacts.
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pactos
paddies
Those mothers were taking crabs and shrimps from the rice paddies and putting it into the meals so they had more protein.
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arrozais
paddleboards
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pedalinhos
paddles
Hand paddles, everything.
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remos
pageants
... producesthese immense Shakespearean musical pageants, where Tony Award- winning...
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desfile, procissão, concurso
paged
We’ll have it paged like it was in the Linguist so there’s only certain amount per page and you have to click on the arrows to see more pages so it won’t be a big, long list so that’s going to be improved.
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paginado
painstaking
By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward
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diligente
painstakingly
didn’t want or care about most of the features they had so painstakingly built.
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meticulosamente
paired
When paired with agile engineering, Customer...
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casado; unido
pakistan
it was because he was from Pakistan that he didn’t know about
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Paquistão
palmistry
... activity were speeches, massage, palmistry, poetry, and throat singing.
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quiromantia
pals
Laura: Well, when I was young, I wrote quite often to my pen pals, but right now, instead of sending a letter I usually send my friends e-mails.
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amigos
paltry
... we still spend a paltry amount on these issues:...
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insignifcante, sem valor; de pouco valor
pamphlet
Our whole constitution can be reprinted in a little pamphlet that fits right in your pocket or your purse.
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panfleto
pamphlets
... of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs,...
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panfletos
pane
... you would install double pane windows.
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vidro, vidraça
panhandling
06:17 I met a man who, nine years ago, was arrested for panhandling in a Walgreens.
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mendicância
panning
Composition, lighting, audio recording, judicious use of camera angles, panning, zooming, and so on all require practice and a certain degree of artistic sensibility; these do not come in the box with your camcorder.
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garimpando
panting
So, you get food in your mouth, "bell, food, [making panting sound] bell, food, [another panting sound]" and now "bell [panting]."
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adj arquejante, ofegante.
paperboy
So how about, did you ever do the paperboy job?
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jornaleiro
par
Golf sub- par, but don't breathe sub-...
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média; par; paridade; valor nominal;
paramilitary
Political parties are forbidden to use paramilitary organizations.
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paramilitar
paramount
They were paramount in my decision- making...
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supremo
parcel
And I don`t think they would have done that unless there was a genuine and sincere effort to reach out and become part and parcel of the community.
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parcela
parcels
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It’s not like you can walk down the street and identify parcels, and turn them into revenue in six or 12 months.
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parcelas
parch
The freak conditions have made this summer one of the best in living memory for what archeologists call “parch marks”—ghostly, pale outlines of vanished castles, settlements, and burial sites that materialize on the land when it dries out and grass a
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parch
parenthetically
This parenthetically, this very simple children...
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Entre parênteses
parish
... registers kept in that parish at any time preceding.
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paróquia
parity
... it's crossing the grid parity point. Cheaper solar penetration...
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paridade
parked
Executing on a business, building a product, raising money Even then, he went through the IPO stage, but he already knew how to go through the IPO stage because he had run a hedge fund where his money was parked at Goldman Sachs.
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estacionado
parlance
... somebody who, in Amnesty parlance we say somebody who...
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linguagem, terminologia, maneira de falar
parlour
In the words of Dean Acheson, a secretary of state, America could no longer sit “in the parlour with a loaded shotgun, waiting”.
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sala de estar, salão
parse
So, how should we parse this?
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analisar
parsley
which is the leeks, parsley, a little bit of...
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salsa
pastimes
His sole pastimes were reading the papers...
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passatempo
pastries
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tortas, bolos
pastry
This always makes me feel awkward—it’s one thing to decline a handshake when my hands are covered with motor oil or pastry flour, but in the absence of visible contaminants, North Americans typically consider it an insult not to accept a handshake.
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s. massa; bolo
pasture
... put him out to pasture.
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pasto
pat
I mean, this is sort of a little bit of a self -- pat ourselves in the back kind of things, but they did.
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dar um tapinha
patch
... negative image onto a patch of grass as it...
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remendo
patches
... tires that were more patches than tires, to become...
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MANCHAS; REMENDO; atadura; esparadrapo; emplasto; fragmentos
patchier
... are generally poorer, with patchier welfare states.
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mais irregular
patchwork
... back together like a patchwork doll.
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s. trabalho de remendos, trabalho com retalhos
patdown
In one variant of this story, the handshake evolved from an elbow-to-wrist “patdown” to check for hidden knives; in another, the shaking motion was supposed to dislodge any sharp objects that may have been kept in the sleeve. Of course, this exp
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s. revista, inspeção
pats
... comfort me with soft pats and kisses.
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pancadinhas
patted
They patted me down.
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afagou
pat yourself on the back and enjoy it
... language, even a little, pat yourself on the back and enjoy it.
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dê um tapinha nas costas e divirta-se
paucity
... of limited stimulus or paucity of stimulus(p- a-...
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insuficiência, escassez
pavement
Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone — (cheers, applause) — whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard and you made a difference.
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calçada,
pawn
because he is the pawn in my emotional chess board.
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peão
pawns
... were using them as pawns.
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peões
paws
Mark: And so I think, I don’t know, maybe that’s part of it and probably the dog’s parents are probably calm; although, certainly when we went out there to visit the puppy the dad had his paws up on the fence barking at us because he kind of knew wha
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patas
payoffs
finally, payoffs.
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1 pagamento de salários. 2 dia de pagamento. 3 lucros, compensação. 4 desfecho, desenlace (de uma situação). • adj decisivo. that’s the payoff isto é o cúmulo. to get the payoff ser demitido.
payroll
powered sales and marketing people arrive on the payroll to execute the “plan.” Here’s how it
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Folha de pagamento
pea
Lots of different crops, pea crops and stuff that are a little more specialized.
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s. ervilha
peaceably
... affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form...
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pacificamente
peach
... I'm sure even her peach pies are excellent).
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pêssego
peaks
... the TV series Twin Peaks.
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s. pico; cume, cimo
pebble
... if you tossed a pebble into a pond and...
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pedregulho
pedestrians
... to a panel of pedestrians in downtown Washington.
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pedestre
pedicure
yourself like taking yourself and getting a pedicure.
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pedicure
pedometer
But few people realize Jefferson also invented the pedometer, the little gadget you wear on your belt to tell you how far you walked today.
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pedômetro conta-passos
pedophile
... found to be a pedophile, the Reverend Fernando Karadima.
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pedófilo
peek
You know,“ peek”, you take a peek...
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v. espiar; espreitar
peeking
... of a little boy peeking into the U. S.
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Espreitar
peel
... bag, spills a banana peel and a paper cup.
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descascar
peeling
... and highly resistant to peeling, chipping, and fading.
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descascando
peer
... bit like peek is“ peer”, but you peer... it's...
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espreitar
peered
I nervously peered over the side of...
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espreitar, olhar
peeves
Of all my pet peeves about English, though, the biggest one was something that until recently I didn’t know the name for: a phenomenon known as hypercorrection. Linguistic Overcompensation Hypercorrection is what occurs when someone deliberate
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IRRITAÇÕES; ABORRECIMENTOS
peg
Andrew Murray (2016: 14–15) suggests that attempts to broker a piecemeal settlement – here a Database Directive, there a Convention on Cybercrime – are wrong-headed and will eventually lead to a fragmented approach which will fracture... instead of a la
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v. pregar; fortificar com estaca; estacar
pellets
... her head with little pellets in a cap, so...
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pastilha, pílula, bolinha, grão de chumbo miúdo
pelts
You sleep in high-tech mummy-style sleeping bags covered with animal pelts; although the air temperature in the room is below freezing, your body remains toasty warm.
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n. pele, couro.
penned
I just penned this.
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escrever, encurralar
pennies
... a game of matching pennies.
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PENNY: centavo; pêni;
penniless
... taking off— he was penniless.
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pobre, sem dinheiro, duro
penny
By the way, vice versa, if you’re in a category that’s growing at 4%, you have enormous pressure on you to make sure you make every penny of your earnings.
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centavo
penthouse
... simple studios to expansive penthouse suites with four bedrooms,...
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cobertura, alpendre, telheiro
peons
Entire sections of certain cities are run by gangs of thugs, and the jails are overflowing with harmless low-level peons sent to jail as make-work for the judicial system – thus constantly increasing law-enforcement budgets.
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peões
people
Obviously, people like to have a nice home of their own.
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pessoas
perennial
... they're the world's largest perennial herbs.
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permanente
perforated
(I have been unable to determine what sort of paper this was or where they obtained it, but I assume it was not rolled, perforated paper—they most likely would not have had the means to manufacture it and I could find no record of other companies mak
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perfurado
peril
There’s lots of peril that you’re going to face but
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risco, perigo
perilous
When James P. Pfiffner, a political scientist at George Mason University, compared the White House crises that confronted Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton, he identified a perilous strain of confidence.
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perigoso
peripheral
So, what it did is it added a cheap little peripheral as a robot.
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periférico
perished
... smugglers, like when 71 people perished in Hungary after the...
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perecer
perk
They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather
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privilégio
perks
A great success I’ve seen, though just a year it’s been, That a day’s good works, May offer infinite perks, And come in colours much brighter than green.
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regalias
perp
... and subjected to a“ perp walk” as they accused...
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condenado
perp walk
... and subjected to a“ perp walk” as they accused me...
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conduzir o preso pela porta da delegacia
personalized
Then we help you save the words and phrases you’re listening to, by linking them together in your personalized database of the English language.
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personalizado
perspiring
... Amsterdam, by an anxiously perspiring European saying," You're Indian,...
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transpirar
pertained
... fatal flaw as it pertained to myself, and that...
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pertencia
pertains
... and creative as it pertains to audiences.
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pertence
peruse
... you mind if I peruse your stock portfolio?
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ler compenetradamente, ler com atenção; ler, examinar, estudar
pervaded
... been transformed: a culture pervaded with defensiveness, universal distrust...
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penetrar; atravessar; encher; impregna
pervasive
Seth, who at twenty-one months had been given a diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorder—a loosely defined diagnosis often given to toddlers when their condition is not understood—was assigned to the Ash Street Center, one of a hundred and seven
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penetrante
pesky
... noble idea lurk extraordinarily pesky issues.
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inoportuno, aborrecido
petals
... one of the prototype petals.
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pétalas
pettiness
... a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.
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mesquinharia, insignificância
pew
From January to April, the number of Americans who had a favorable view of the Republican Party dropped seven points, to forty per cent, according to the Pew Research Center.
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banco de igreja
phallus
There is a phallus, clear acrylic phallus, with...
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falo, membro sexual do macho
phantom
... the commission to investigate phantom voter fraud, the President...
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fantasma

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