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phased out
... diesel engines to be phased out or retrofitted.
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eliminadas
phishing
We have new laws relating to downloading or possessing online child pornography, for instance, and laws attempting to control computer-mediated techniques of fraud, such as phishing.
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defraudar
phoning
Also, my success at Cantonese confirmed to me that age is no barrier to effective language learning, if the learner is prepared to make the commitment. While I am not totally fluent, I am able to carry on a conversation, even to the point of pho
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Telefonando;
physician
His personal physician, Harold N. Bornstein, issued brief, celebratory statements—Trump’s lab-test results were “astonishingly excellent”—mentioning little more than a daily dose of aspirin and a statin.
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medico cirurgião
picket
I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time.
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fazer piquete; conservar, guardar; cercar com estacas, fortificar com estacas
pickle
I’ve got myself into a pickle.
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conserva, salmoura
picky
I'm not really picky with movies, actually; I...
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exigente, meticuloso
pieced
I pieced together fragmented, transitory images,...
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remendado
piecemeal
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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pouco a pouco
pier
It was like, “Well, I could walk off this short pier and start my own thing, or I could continue to get pretty well-compensated for doing this on behalf of somebody else.” That was the crossroads that I found myself at.
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(n) pilastra; PIER; QUEBRA-MAR; poste, coluna
pies
A baker, by contrast, sees the world as an opportunity to make more pies and bigger pies.
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tortas
pigeon holed
pigeon holed
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pombo furado
pigeonholes
... uncomfortable putting people in pigeonholes.
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escaninhos
piggy
Some of them I’m involved with because I have smarter friends than me who said, “Hey, you should just piggy-back what I’m doing.” Some I’m involved with because I realized I could help a lot of people if I do this, and make money at the same time.
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porquinho
pike
I’ll start with taking a look at the blog and what needs to happen that day and what’s coming down the pike What do I need to get accomplished?
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pique
pilgrim
... this post at Marketing Pilgrim are incredible.
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peregrino, romeiro
pilgrim's
Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection...
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Peregrino
piling on
It is piling on of the continuing income...
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empilhando
pilings
By the time I first visited the site, in the 1990s, it looked incredibly aged, its former bathing pools choked with algae, and its metal pilings eaten away by the tide.
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estacas, pilhas
pillage
... of booty, robbery and pillage, as well as the‘...
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pilhagem; saque; pilhar; saquear
pillowcase
... he used a white pillowcase to show just how...
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fronha
pillowcase's
His fingers find the pillowcase's sailing masts.
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fronha
pin
Pinterest pin that says you could be juiciest peach in the world but there’s
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pino
pinch
... exposed; for best results, pinch the crust around the...
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pitada
pining
I find myself pining for those simpler days when a lethargic salutation muttered under ones breath initiated a friendship that could last a lifetime.
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consumir-se; desejar
pinkie
... he would grab my pinkie, because what he wanted...
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o dedo mínimo
pinnacle
... in my life, the pinnacle that made me an...
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Pináculo é o ponto mais alto de um determinado lugar, um edifício ou uma torre,
pinprick
... pale blue dot, a pinprick of light.
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picada de agulha
pins
... titanium earrings, pendants, and pins, and all sorts of...
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pinos
pinstripes
... the one with the pinstripes.
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riscas
pious
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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pio, piedoso
pipe dreams
pipe dreams
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quimeras
pit
and immediately have a pit of anxiety in my stomach and it would go
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caroço, ou buraco, poço, cova
pitched
notice my voice gets kind of high-pitched like this, it’s because I don’t
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com tom determinado, inclinado
pitchers
Most pitchers have three or four...
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jarros
pitching
As for me, I was only vaguely aware of Elvis from commercials pitching his records, and from the fact that he and my father had the same birthday.
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lançando
pitfalls
I’m really am exciting about some of the pitfalls, we’ve ran into,
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armadilha, cilada
pithy
... borrowed or composed those pithy utterances of worldly wisdom...
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vigoroso
pits
Going off the grid and becoming a rogue pits the entire weight of the combined DRO system against you – and, even if you do manage to survive their scrutiny and steal something, it has probably been voice-encoded or protected in some other manner a
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poços
pittance
But instead of selling them all for a pittance and then weeping over how much money I’ve lost, I’m going to “set them free.” That’s the lingo used by members of a rapidly growing movement known as bookcrossing, which aims to turn the entire world int
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bagatela, mixaria
pituitary
Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff...
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pituitário
pity
It would be such a pity if your blog shuts down because of a viral effect...
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ter piedade de; misericórdia; piedade
pixie
... like," Why not' magic pixie'?"
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duende
placement
... you subject, object, verb, placement of indirect, direct objects,...
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Colocação
placidly
... left Social Democrats(SPD) placidly alternating in power or...
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em silencio
plague
So today’s rally, for example, was opened by a Native American speaker who spoke about the issues that plague Native American women, including the number of women being murdered – Native American women one of the highest rates in the country.
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praga
plainclothes
XIV – organize and maintain the plainclothes police, the uniformed police force, and
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roupas comuns
plainness
... good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom.
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s. franqueza; sinceridade; sem beleza; simplicidade
plains
The vast grasslands of the High Plains in the central United States were settled by farmers and ranchers in the 1880’s.
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planícies
plaintiffs
Two plaintiffs involved in the hotel-and-restaurant industry joined the current case, arguing that Trump’s businesses enjoy unfair advantages.
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Requerentes
plank
Then, with the help of the local Indians, August Jack and Willie Khahtsahlano and a team of horses, he pulled taut the first hemp rope and cedar plank bridge 450 feet across the Capilano River.
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Tábua; prancha; plataforma política (de partidos)
planters
... as benches or large planters) to force cars to...
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plantadores, canteiros com plantas
plaster
Straw will rot if exposed to moisture, so to keep it dry, both interior and exterior surfaces are sealed with plaster, stucco, or adobe.
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gesso, argamassa, emplastro
plastered
... I want your face plastered everywhere, so that the...
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rebocada
plasterwork
In the end, Ryan later told me, they found intact archways leading to five cellars, some painted plasterwork, and a light switch.
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estuque
plateaued
Because we've plateaued, Evelyn, and it is...
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estabilizou
platelets
¶ 6 Chemical evidence shows that platelets (minute flat portions) of ice form in the water and then accrete and stick to the bottom of the ice shelf to form a slush (partially melted snow).
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plaquetas
platter
Tête de Moine is often served with fruit or fresh French bread, or simply as a decorative yet edible garnish for a cheese platter. Today, Tête de Moine cheese is still produced by small local dairies near Bellelay.
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bandeja
playful
If you're creative, playful, fun enough, can you...
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divertido; brincalhão (ver segunda definição)
playmate
In other cases, it’s simply a matter of wanting company, a hiking companion, or a playmate.
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camarada, parceiro
plea
... Here's my one last plea to companies.
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desculpa, apelo, pleito
pleadingly
Steve: Why should I, she said pleadingly.
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suplicante
pleads
... are always dismissing our pleads, they're always saying it's...
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plead [plɪːd] v. alegar; defender; implorar
pleas
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pedidos
pled
They haven’t been convicted of any crime; they haven’t pled guilty to any offense.
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alegar
pliers
It’s not that I won’t understand you if you say, “I ain’t got none,” but it’s awkward and inelegant, like using a pair of pliers to turn a screw.
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alicate
plight
... I am to the plight of those trying to...
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situação difícil, sofrimento
plotted
... Laughter) But what I plotted here is just some...
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to plot = conspirar, tramar
plotters
... clandestine channel with coup plotters in Venezuela was a...
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conjurador, conspirador; (Informática) tipo de impressora que imprime esboços de forma precisa
plotting
... Venezuelan military had been plotting against the Maduro government.
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tramar, intrigar, conspirar
plowed
Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture.
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lavrar a terra, arar
plowing
1 editor in the whole country.” Baseball scouts and managers have long touted Dykstra’s singular talent, as a player, for putting failure out of mind, and plowing forward with untrammelled confidence, and that same trait seems to extend to his daily
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arar
ploy
It's a cheap ploy.
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Estratagema
pluck
And their response, of course, was no more than we wanted to stop the genocide and put our troops in harm’s way to do that, nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps.
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puxar, arrancar.
plug
... forgot to say our plug.
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propaganda
plum
It’s basically a fruit brandy, so the plum version is the most common one because there are lots of plums in Serbia, but you can make it from different fruits as well so we asked the waiter, ‘Which one do you recommend?' and he said, ‘Well, you know,
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ameixa
plumes
... here, but there's rocket plumes-- and these guys are...
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plumas
plummeted
... or 40 dollars and then plummeted, and it's never traded...
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despencou
plummeting
The government often refuses to divulge data on everything from skyrocketing inflation to plummeting food production.
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em queda livre; despencar
plump
... plays this sort of plump English girl?
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gorda, roliço, carnudo, cheio
plumper
... chief engineer on HMS Plumper, discovered coal nearby.
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Mentira descarada
plundering
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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pilhagem
plunge
Homicide rates plunge whenever anarchy and the...
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mergulhar
plunger
It consists of two main parts: an outer casing, which is hollow but closed on one end, and the piston itself—a rod or plunger that fits the hole in the casing perfectly and whose tip reaches almost, but not quite, to the stoppered end of the tube.
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pistão
plunges
... Catholicism as the religion plunges in popularity ERASMUS 5 DAYS...
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mergulha
ply
Paper Company was selling rolled, perforated (and medicated) toilet paper by 1885—and possibly as early as 1877. * A 1935 ad for Northern Tissue boasted that it was “splinter-free,” but this does not in any way suggest that all toilet paper prior t
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two ply, duas camadas
pocus
I don’t know if it’s scientific or if it’s hocus-pocus, but
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embuste, trapaça, mistificação
poignancy
There was undeniable poignancy in his own story’s nightmarish turn, in light of the slogan he’d devised for The Players Club: “keep living the dream.” So I sent him an e-mail, inviting him to a ballgame.
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pungência
poised to bridge the world
The“ new physics” seemed poised to bridge the world of faith with the...
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preparado para superar o mundo
poke
... pull them or you poke them.
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v. empurrar; apalpar; bater; ferir
pokes
So, if somebody pokes you with a stick and you say, "Ouch," because it hurts, the poking and the "ouch" is an unconditioned stimulus causing an unconditioned response.
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puxões
poking
... with the pie funnel poking through and its top...
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cutucando
polemic
... chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which...
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polêmica
polling
The polling stations have just closed, and we have a long night ahead of us.
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eleição
polls
Polls taken, this poll was...
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Nomear, votar, apuração, voto, plebiscito
pollsters
Brazilians tell pollsters that the words which...
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Pesquisadores
poltergeists
... such as precognition, telepathy, poltergeists, lucid dreaming, and near...
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fantasma; espírito que anuncia a sua presença através de barulhos
pond
... a pebble into a pond and then, as the...
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lago
pooh poohed
I think I pooh- poohed you.
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ridicularizou
pool
You need citizens who understand the role of each branch of government because young people don’t inherit the concepts through the gene pool, every generation has to learn it.
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comunhão de interesses; valores públicos;
popery
... of their zeal against popery.
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papado
poppies
In the other areas it’s not so dangerous because the locals are busy growing poppies for the heroin trade.
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papoulas
pops
... stuff in English, up pops the Romanian, I grab...
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disparar, estourar, pipocar
popsicle
It will feel like a popsicle on a hot
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picolé
popsicles
... down the road and popsicles in the backyard.
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picolés
populace
What was interesting about it was it already was fleshing out some of the arguments which we only turned to later on in a sense of finding different ways of interacting with the local populace.
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Povo, multidão
porch
... we gotta finish the porch before Mommy gets home.
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varanda
porcupine
When I think of bristle I think of a porcupine, right?
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porco-espinho
pores
... vessels, not to mention pores and other minute structures.
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poros
porous
* Saline Aquifers: An aquifer is a porous layer of rock that holds a large quantity of water—often saltwater.
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poroso
porridge
... just a bowl of porridge- how does it produce...
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mingau
portend
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who is on the Judiciary Committee, believes that the Administration’s actions denigrating or denying the power of equal branches of government portend a “constitutional crisis” akin to Nixon’s refusa
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pressagiar / prognosticar
positives
Jill: which I hate just as much as the next person; probably more than a lot of people, but, I guess, the positives outweigh that for me.
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Benefícios
posits
... And positive psychology posits that if we study...
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postulados
posterity
... so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know,...
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posteridade
potlatches
It hosted huge potlatches, attended by thousands of...
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a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
potluck
We begin with a potluck meal, and while we’re eating we take turns talking about the significant events in our lives.
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s. refeição comum em que cada participante prepara um prato ou uma porção;
potpourri
To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn’t genuinely possess: the conviction that he’s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of C
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mistura de perfumes
potters
Flywheels are common in mechanical devices from potters' wheels to automobiles to clocks as a means of regulating or smoothing motion that comes in spurts.
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ceramista
pounded
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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martelada
pouting
... the instructor is like pouting.
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; fazer cara feia, fazer bico
powerhouses
powerhouses though may they be, launch product after product—Google’s Orkut and Wave, Deskbar,
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potências
powwow
We were just actually talking with… we had a bit of a powwow in the middle of the day here in the office.
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congresso
practitioners
But what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has
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profissional, médico, advogado
pranks
... camp and they pulled pranks on each other and...
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brincadeira, peça, travessura
preach
... tenure even as they preach the virtues of the...
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pregar
preacher
“Then you have the person selling the dream—the preacher.
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pregador
preachers
... sermons of the best preachers, which he took down...
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pregador
preaches
... Fall practices what she preaches.
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prega
preaching
... one of public speaking/ preaching and so when I...
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pregando
precariat
Today, in that same vision, liberals need to side with a struggling precariat against the patricians.
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precariado
precepts
at the same time but developed their businesses by following Customer Development precepts even
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mandamento; preceito; ordem; mandato; regra; instrução
precludes
This guy Otto Lilienthal - aviation at the time was sort of like the cool engineering thing to be thinking about in the late 19th century and Otto Lilienthal was one of the early sort of aviation pioneers and he wrote this in the aviation - in the Ae
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opõe-se
precocious
... and she was the precocious one.
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precoce
precognition
... of phenomena such as precognition, telepathy, poltergeists, lucid dreaming,...
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predição
predicament
This is actually the predicament that we are always in in terms of our birth
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situação de apuro, emergência
pregenual
... dialect-- it fires the pregenual anterior cingulate, a watershed...
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pré-natal
premiereship
They finished fifth in the premiereship this year, so they’re near the top.
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Primeiro lugar
premises
Now, obviously, for a small company like ours, we are not going to start a daycare center here on the premises for 10 employees but we are quite flexible; people can work from home.
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Edifício; prédio; local
prepaids
Closing Costs/Prepaids: Estimated at 1% of the purchase price or value of the home.
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prepagos
preparedness
... Director- General of Emergency Preparedness and Response, told journalists...
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preparação; prontidão; disposição
preposterous
To me, at the time, it sounded preposterous because I didn’t think anybody would buy a Pet Rock.
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absurdo
preposterously
... they're very weak; they're preposterously weak.
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absurdamente
presses
When The Economist was founded 175 years ago our first editor, James Wilson, promised “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.” We renew our pledge to that contest.
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prensas
presto
... a strong attraction, and presto!
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(especially as a direction) in a quick tempo. a phrase announcing the successful completion of a trick, or suggesting that something has been done so easily that it seems to be magic.
preteen
Being considered a "ladies' man," in the topsy-turvy logic of preteen boys, was considered being a "girlie man."
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pré-adolescente
pretrial
... largest data set on pretrial in the United States...
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pré-julgamento
pretzel
Dykstra left the stadium, with the score tied in the eighth, still carrying his plastic cup, into which he’d stuffed a cocktail napkin and the remnants of a soft pretzel—dinner—that he seemed not to want to eat.
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pão tradicional alemão
pretzels
... on potato chips and pretzels, what Seattle is going...
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salgadinhos
pricey
For an occasional weekend trip out of town, car rental agencies provided a reasonable—if somewhat pricey—solution.
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caro
pricier
... fancy but on the pricier side.
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caro, de preço elevado.
prick
... want to be a prick, but I'm a member...
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picada; pontada; orgão sexual (gíria)
prim
... curled up in my prim baby humidicrib in 1948 that...
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arrumado; limpo; delicado
primeval
... one thousand acres of primeval forest, and dedicated it...
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primitivo
prix fixe set
... we told him the prix fixe set menu sounded good.
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prix fixe set
probe
President Trump responded today to word that he demanded Robert Mueller’s ouster last June as special counsel in the Russia probe by saying it is all fake news.
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investigação
probes
... could program self- replicating probes to visit every planetary...
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sondas
probing
Startups demand execs who are comfortable with uncertainty, chaos and change —with presentations and offers changing daily, with the product changing often, with probing and gaining
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sondando
probity
... to protect the administrative probity, the morality for the...
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probidade
procured
Most of the money which went into the machinery was procured through the efforts of R. U. Darby, who was then a very young man.
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adquiridos
procuring
... my time doing was procuring parts for printers so
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aquisição de
prodded
Every so often I get prodded by Mark to do certain things so I thought that Mark should come in and Jill and I, who are relative neophytes, we can ask stupid questions and you can give us enlightening answers.
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agulhar; espetar; picar;
prodding
He would also invite me into the living room so that I could watch the Polish TV and improve my language and then spend half the television show prodding me and getting me to speak to him in very fast Polish.
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espetando, picando
profess
... project, which is to profess.
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professar; confessar; declarar; afirmar
profiteering
... my friends in tech: profiteering off misogyny in video...
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exploração
profiteering off
... my friends in tech: profiteering off misogyny in video games...
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lucro fora
profusion
Where a tropical rain forest would overflow with vines and climbing plants, a temperate rain forest has a profusion of ferns, moss, and lichens.
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abundância
prolific
Bucky-ing Trends R. Buckminster Fuller was one of the most prolific thinkers and inventors of the 20th century.
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fértil, produtivo
promenade
... on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with a flask of...
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passeio público; CALÇADÃO; esplanada. (v) Passear; Levar a passeio
promoters
... of the NPS, Net Promoters Score— how likely someone...
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Promotores
proms
Though black and white students at the school had held separate proms as recently as the nineteen-eighties, Latoya trusted the teachers, many of whom she'd grown up with.
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proms
promulgate
... Municipal Chamber, which shall promulgate it, observing the principles...
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promulgar
pronged
(Incidentally, despite the fact that ACCO made a name for itself with paperclips, the so-called ACCO Fastener is not a paperclip; it’s a two-pronged brass fastener that was invented in 1912.)
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Com dentes
proofread
Proofread, laugh at spelling errors,...
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corrigir provas
propel
enough measurable progress in finding the business model as defined by board and team—to propel
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impulsionar
propelled
Then finally they hit upon that lucky set of circumstances over decades that really propelled them into the ‘overnight success.'
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propelir, empurrar; propulsar; pôr para a frente
prophylactically
... recommend pursuing any treatments prophylactically, or simply pursuing the...
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profilaticamente
proponent
I’ve been a great proponent of the notion of the rule of law as we’ve gone around the world and as we’ve been able to see new nation states develop elsewhere in the world.
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defensor
propped
... my balance, and I'm propped up against the wall.
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apoiado
proselytizer
He was a proselytizer for the benefits of insurance.
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proselitista
prospect
... argued that the human prospect is more tragic than...
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esperança; possibilidade, chance;
protracted
But at the same time, this is going to be a very protracted and messy endgame.
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Prolongado
protractedly
... careful when we act protractedly out of character.
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demoradamente
protruding
Protruding from this vest is a heavy-duty mechanical arm, somewhat reminiscent of the ones used in certain adjustable desk lamps.
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projectado
proxies
... we've invented all these proxies.
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procurações
proxy
... name game played by proxy on behalf of thousands...
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procuração
prune
... spend 10,000 lifetimes trying to prune this legal jungle.
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cortar, aparar, ameixa
prunes
... longer needed, the body prunes them back to baseline,...
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ameixas
pruning
This pruning process, which I’ve repeated countless times, is crucial because there’s simply no more room to put bookshelves.
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poda; monda; corte; desbaste
pry
The suit, first filed in January, in the Southern District of New York, is partly an effort to pry open the President’s business records.
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meter-se em assuntos alheios, bisbilhotar, meter o nariz onde não se deve; mexericar
psyched
... Now I was pretty psyched.
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empolgado
puberty
Around the time of puberty, kids experience a delay in their biological clock.
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puberdade
puck
(“I got mileage, bro.”) He had also recently bought “Wayne Gretzky’s house,” in Thousand Oaks, California, for eighteen and a half million dollars, and he was eager to show off the home theatre, which still featured a spinning hockey puck decorated w
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diabo; fada, duende; disco (no jogo de hóquei)
puddle
... arise out of a puddle in essentially real timewith...
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poça de água
pugnacious
Carter is Trump’s moral and stylistic opposite, but, Antholis said, “he couldn’t find a way to work with his own party, and Trump’s whole message was pugnacious.
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pugnar, briguento, brigão
puke
... called It's Okay to Puke When You're a Public...
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vômito
pulp
As the person in charge of MacMillan Bloedel’s operations in Asia, I was responsible for marketing paper and pulp as well as lumber.
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polpa; bagaço
pummelled
Last week’s weather phenomenon, called a bomb cyclone, pummelled the American East Coast.
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golpeado
pump
... the water main, and pump water up to their...
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bomba (bombear)
pumpkin
We always had pumpkin pie, and if we...
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abóbora

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