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tilted
Republicans have been relatively confident, in part because their redistricting in 2010 tilted the congressional map in their favor.
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inclinado
tilts
... your lead system is tilts you in a different...
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inclina
timeout
They don’t take the timeout.
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tempo esgotado
tinder
In other words, very basic parts that require little technological sophistication to create. To use a fire piston, you put a tiny piece of tinder in the indentation at the tip of the piston, and perhaps apply a dab of grease to the gasket for lu
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material inflamável
tingle
... and you feel the tingle.
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formigamento, latejar
tingling
tingling that’s rapid and unpleasant but it’s all over my body.
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formigueiro
tinkering
“My story’s all about not giving up.” Opening his laptop, he showed me PowerPoint slides for various business plans he’s been tinkering with, including one, ironically, that he thought could “double the revenues” of Uber.
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mexendo; ajustando
tint
... with a slightly unusual tint); up close, it looks...
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colorir, pintar, cor, tom
tints
... hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
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n. cor, tom, matiz v. colorir, pintar
tippy
... to stand on my tippy- toes, stare at that...
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Instável
tiptoes
She tiptoes in and leaves a...
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na ponta do pé, andar na ponta do pé
tireless
I thank my sons for their tireless work on behalf of the campaign, and thank their wives and children — (cheers, applause) — for taking up their slack as their husbands and dads have spent so many weeks away from home.
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incansável
tiresome
... indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through...
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cansativo
tis
... he's making it hyperbolically:"' Tis nothing good or bad/...
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tis (it is) é, este é, isso é
tithe
... devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to...
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dízimo
tithers
... what I call" reverse tithers."
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dizimistas
tithing
... years ago, we started tithing.
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dízimo
titillated
... most sacred majesty be titillated for some time prior...
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atiçada, excitada
tits
Teeth and tits.
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Tetas
tizzy
Everybody is in a tizzy.
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estado de confusão
toasty
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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quente
to avail
... such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection...
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avaliar
to be mean
... do not enslave people to be mean to them.
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ser malvado
to charter
I'm going to-- charter differentiation thread, neutralization thread...
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para a carta
to chip away
... provide him with ammunition to chip away at the region's nearly...
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desbastar
to fend off
to fend off
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Para se defender
to get cut to the chase
to get cut to the chase
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para cortar a perseguição
toil
... characteristic resilience and hard toil, they have now vanquished...
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trabalho duro
token
But, by the same token, very often if I see claims on a resume: I am clever, I am excellent, I am very capable, I am this, I am that.
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símbolo
tokens
For example, if I as a merchant sold 100 items at $0.10 each, I may receive 100 tokens—each with a value of $10.00, but only a 1 in 100 chance of being “live.” So, on average, I’m still getting paid for the value of goods I delivered, but instead of
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fichas
toll
More importantly for me, dealing with traffic congestion and road rage during my daily commute began taking its toll on my mental health.
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imposto, preço; preço alto demais.
tolls
There are many ways to pay for roads, such as electronic or cash tolls, GPS charges, roads maintained by the businesses they lead to, communal organizations and so on.
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taxas
to make good on
to make good on
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para compensar
toot
Jill: Not to toot my own horn or anything!
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v. tocar, apitar, assobiar
top notch
So do top- notch videos, eBooks, and a...
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Top de linha
to pop
... thing we did was to pop the cornstarch peanuts in...
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estourar
topple
... Venezuelan armed forces to topple their commander in chief.
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v. ruir, tombar, fazer cair
toppling
... mutinous officers intent on toppling a president in the...
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derrubando; caindo
topsy
Buzzsumo results for “orthographe” Finally, you can enter some keywords on Topsy, to find what is trending on Twitter.
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As avessas
top tier
top tier
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Nível superior
to rake the muck
... to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to...
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arranhar a sujeira
tore
In South Korea, at least 37 people died today when a fire tore through a small hospital that had no sprinkler system.
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tear: romper, rasgar
torpor
... those barriers of administrative torpor in the hospital, to...
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sonolência
tortoise
... a bit of a tortoise and hare situation.
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Tartaruga
to soak up
... as Hershey did originally) to soak up some of the fat,...
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para absorver
tossed
... you'd see if you tossed a pebble into a...
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atirar, jogar; rodar
tosses
Because of its saltiness, seawater freezes around 29 degrees Fahrenheit, about three degrees lower than normal water, so when the air gets colder than this point, it can freeze the top most layers of ocean water and tosses slush on to shore.
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atirar, arremessar, jogar
to stay clear
to stay clear
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ficar claro
toting
But after toting all our high-tech apparatus into the middle of nowhere, setting up a tent, and rolling out the sleeping bags, I invariably think to myself: this is an awful lot of work for very little comfort.
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carregar
touchy
Mark: Yeah and it's quite a touchy issue or a prominent issue right now.
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sensível, suscetível
toured
... the decision as he toured a vehicle factory in...
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excursionou
tout
... like last year-- will tout the President's" foreign policy...
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v. agenciar, angariar; perseguir, espionar/ aliciar
touting
At the same time, the marketing buzz started with a pr blitz with hundreds of articles touting the
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tout - angariar, catar, procurar fregueses, alardear, divulgar, promover
tow
And he took the sign and he put it up in my mom’s editing room where she edited her films and that sign is out there as sort of a reminder that they made this big change in their life when they were young with two young kids in tow, and no money to m
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rebocar
to ward off both
... bag saturated with pesticides, to ward off both insects and birds. Being...
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para afastar ambos
towed
Getting towed.
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rebocar
towing
A Prophetic Voice In 1942, a British scientist named Geoffrey Pyke—an adviser to Lord Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations—came up with the idea of cutting off a large piece of an arctic iceberg or ice floe, leveling its surface, and towing it i
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reboque
township
... of kids from the township of Soweto walked out...
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distrito
toying
... months(it's something I'm toying with doing in 2007).
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brincando
tradable
... we then split into tradable cryptocurrency that investors could...
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Negociável
trademarks
141 7 Web law 143 7.1 Changing social attitudes to internet firms 143 7.2 The internet and contract 151 7.3 The right to link 158 7.4 Trademarks and domain names 160 7.5 Web 2.0, defamation, and “hate speech” 164 8 Regulatory compliance 175 8.1 Is so
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marcas
trailed
The stars are trailed out because the telescope...
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perseguir
trailers
But the event’s organizers had created a wall of tractor-trailers around the spot where Trump would land, blocking protesters from seeing Trump and him from seeing them.
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trailer s. reboque; trechos de um filme; moradia em reboque
traipsing
August is peak travel season, which means that right now millions of Americans are traipsing around the world creating the stories they’ll be telling captivated dinner guests and captive grandchildren for decades to come.
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perambulando
tram
... was on the Disneyland tram.
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bonde, carro eléctrico
tramp
In speaking of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said, "He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was deter
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cargueiro
trample
... will ignore democratic norms, trample on liberal freedoms and...
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pisar
trampled
... journey and have been trampled by elephants after crossing...
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atropelado, pisado
tramps
... powerful, in general, category tramps company, company tramps market,...
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mendigo, pedinte, longa caminhada a pé
trams
In Zürich, for example, you can buy a single transit pass that can be used for trams, buses, trains, and ships in addition to cars.
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bondes, carro elétrico
trance
... in a state of trance handling burning embers with...
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transe, êxtase
tranquil
... he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live...
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tranquilo, calmo
transmogrified
The click itself is magically transmogrified into cash.
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metamorfoseado
transship
... has enabled us to transship our bodies and our...
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transbordo
traps
On his way back he had to check the rabbit traps for the dinner stew.
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armadilha
treacherous
It can be a fairly treacherous stretch of road in the wintertime.
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traiçoeiro
treacherously
... the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest...
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traiçoeiramente
treason
Treason, half lamb, half scorpion, lulls us into a false sense of security and then poisons a republic. Fraud, with the flighty wings of a bat.
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traição
treetops
They’ve got the platforms up in the treetops with the zip line between the platforms.
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elite; copa de árvore
trek
... was different times each trek.
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viagem, migração em carros
trekked
From baseball games to military funerals, we trekked across the country with neon protest signs in hand to tell others exactly how "unclean" they were and exactly why they were headed for damnation.
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Treinado
trespass
... land is protected by trespass law, for most of...
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transgressão
triad
Instead of treating geopolitics as a zero-sum struggle between the great powers, America must draw on the self-reinforcing triad of its military might, its values and its allies.
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Tríade
tricked
We get tricked into doing that in a way that perpetuates
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enganar
trickiest
... of course, is the trickiest part of the pie...
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mais complicado
trickle
... to coin the phrase" trickle- down diplomacy."
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gotejar, pingar; escorrer
trickling
... of it all is trickling down through the population.
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gotejar, pingar; escorrer
tricks
... has quite a few tricks up its sleeve— including,...
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truques
trickster
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.
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trapaceiro
trim
A little trim.
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aparar; composto, enfeitado
trimmings
... turkey and all the trimmings.
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guarnições
triplets
... beautiful wife, with our triplets, whom we call the...
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trigêmeos
tripling
tripling the AdWords budget) won’t substitute for a proven business model and a tested sales
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triplicando
tripping
I was just tripping out on
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tropeçar;
trippy
so trippy.
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trippy
trite
... that sounds a bit trite and obvious, but I...
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banal
trivia
... my endless recitations of trivia made me look smarter,...
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curiosidade
troll
... a result, the patent troll can claimthat they won...
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ogro, monstro
trophy
... away with a large trophy and an additional contribution...
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Troféu
troubleshooting
It’s so easy to create a good looking blog without all the headaches inherent in learning Wordpress and the stress of managing and troubleshooting your site.
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solução de problemas
troublesome
Troublesome doorways?
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incômodo
troubling
... so what's behind this troubling trend?
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preocupante
trough
The aqueduct has many notable features, including its great length (1007 feet; about 300m), its structural ingenuity (in its use of tapered support columns), and the construction of the metal trough in which the water is carried.
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gamela; canal; calha
trouper
My husband was just a trouper through it all, really picked up a lot of the stuff that I had to leave behind to get the book done.
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trouper
trout
Things you can receive by monthly subscription include: gourmet cheese, minerals (for rock collectors), potato chips, sock-knitting kits, trout flies, tea, jam, pasta, pastries, magic tricks, oysters, candles, condoms, quilt blocks, nesting dolls, so
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truta (peixe); velha
trove
... sitting on a treasure trove of winning infographics ideas.
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s. coleção de objetos;
trudge
... the way on this trudge to the market town...
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marcha
trumped up
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estragado
trumpeting
As to Trump's trumpeting the liberating effects of...
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trompetear
truss
The central truss would expand, with the...
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treliça
tuck
... like a nip and tuck here and there.
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dobrar; enfiar, botar para dentro
tucked
it, and then it can kind of just be tucked away so it can just be efficient for
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v. dobrar; enfiar
tuft
Crooked smile, tuft of chest hair, he...
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tufo, moita
tugging
I didn’t break the piñata; I don’t think I even hit it—the adult who was tugging at the rope from which the piñata was suspended to “make the game more challenging” saw to that.
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puxar, rebocar
tumble
As the Nasdaq did fall, and our tech stocks did crumble, I was one of many, who took that corporate tumble.
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tombo, queda
tumbled
I gleefully tumbled down Burnaby mountain - an appropriate place (I thought) for an institute of higher learning - with a degree in French Literature under one arm and a pocketful of dreams under the other.
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cair, derrubar; causar distúrbio, fazer baderna
tumbledown
... a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts...
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em ruínas
tumbler
tumbler clicks]- MIKEY: Got it.
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copo de vidro
tumbleweed
... the social web like tumbleweed.
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amaranto
tumbling
... the strange shape, the tumbling motion could all have...
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v. cair, derrubar; causar distúrbio, fazer baderna
tummy
... her pants as her tummy grows in size.
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Barriga
tumultuous
... despite serving during a tumultuous decade that saw al-...
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tumultuoso
tuning
... puzzling of all) a tuning fork.
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Afinar, coordenar, comandar
turf
“I just stopped,” she told me, “because you could see the mansion.” We were standing on a patch of dried-out turf where the great hall of Clumber House once stood.
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land or territory; área de influência
turgid
... In more turgid prose, but closer to...
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túrgido
turnaround
and a turnaround, and I'm not going...
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reviravolta
turnout
You know the weather can have an impact on how things turn out and I’m glad that we had a great turnout here today.
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comparecimento
turnover
Some will say, you know, we have got a turnover rate among our employees.
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modificação; reviravolta; contra-ataque
turnpike
... say; coming down the turnpike.
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passagem com pedágio
turrets
This elongation of objects on the horizon may make it appear as if there are turrets or towers rising up from the water, leading to the description of fata morganas as castles in the air. As this effect can occur with ships, making them look hig
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n. torre pequena
turtleneck
... stage in that black turtleneck and jeans, and he...
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gola olímpica
turvy
Being considered a "ladies' man," in the topsy-turvy logic of preteen boys, was considered being a "girlie man."
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abagunçado, de pernas para o ar
twaddle
Melodramatic twaddle.
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disparate
tweak
Someone still has got an interesting model, why don’t we tweak it a little bit?
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beliscar; puxar; ajustar; implicar
tweaking
Tweaking the law's clearly not...
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ajustando
twelfth
On October Twelfth, they stood on land again on an island that Columbus named San Salvador.
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Décimo segundo
twit
... as a great, thundering twit."
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Repreender
twitiness
... boringness and your inherent" twitiness" that makes me, as...
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leveza
tycoons
Trina: I am a flight attendant for a charter airline, World Airways, out of the United States, and we do mostly military charters into military air force bases and we do some other American football teams and some oil tycoons into Africa.
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magnatas
typo
Maybe you’ve noticed a typo, an inaccurate statement, or important missing information.
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erro de digitação
typos
had a lot of typos in it and it was very unprofessional?”
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erro de imprensa
tyros
I got a little annoyed by overuse of the phrase true freshman, but it should be underlined that these guys tyros, but in terms of preparation, they seemed as veteran as anyone on the field.
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principiante
ubiquitous
Company can lay claim to the first sale of the ubiquitous perforated roll.
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adj. se encontra em todos os lugares
ultrasounds
Jill: Yeah, because back then they didn’t do ultrasounds I don’t think, did they?
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ultra-sonografias
umpteen
... me, Je, whatever in umpteen languages.
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muito, excessivamente (gíria)
unabashed
... conference, arguing it's an unabashed celebration of capitalism gone...
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desavergonhado, descarado
unaccredited
... an unlimited number of unaccredited, unsophisticated investors-- everyday people,...
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não acreditado
unacquainted
... which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the...
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ignorante
unambiguous
founders an unambiguous path with clearly defined milestones the board presumes will be achieved.
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inequívoco
unambiguously
On the other hand, a high five (arguably a variety of handshake) pretty unambiguously expresses satisfaction or congratulations—but that’s the exception. I think the notion that we all need to perfect the art of shaking hands—and reading handsha
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inequivocamente
unapologetic
I’m not sorry it happened this way.’ ” There were narrative benefits to Dykstra’s unapologetic bluntness, Hubbard felt, but he couldn’t help worrying about the long-term personal prognosis.
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sem remorso
unappealing
Jill: Oh wow, that sounds so unappealing to me.
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desagradável
unattaching
secret to unattaching from it.
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desatualizado
unbeknownst
Unbeknownst to most of my friends and family, I’m really an action hero.
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Sem o conhecimento
unbiased
The honest answer, to any unbiased observer is surely: they are encouraged.
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imparcial
unblind
And it's unblind, the clinical trial, especially...
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desvendar
unbounce
... is co- founder of Unbounce, a company that allows...
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Desvincular
unbounded
When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to...
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ilimitado, irrestrito, infinito
unbundled
In the 1970s, software began to be sold as a product unbundled from any particular computer.
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desagregado
uncanny
... I was like-- that's uncanny, that's exactly what my...
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adj. misterioso, estranho
uncaring
being viewed as uncaring.
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indiferente
uncharted
These are definitely uncharted waters and but I think if the United States is going to find any future for NATO, it has to look at it in ways beyond traditional military missions.
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desconhecido
unclench
In his inaugural address in January 2009, he addressed those that use corruption and the silencing of dissent to hold onto power, saying that they were on the wrong side of history, and that America will “extend a hand if you are willing to unclench
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abrir
unconscionable
To examine a worst-case scenario, imagine that Stan’s employer is an evil man who bribes the DRO to rule in his favour, and the DRO imposes an unconscionable fine – say, one million dollars – on Stan.
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injusto
unconversant
I mean, this is a man who ran on immigration as his issue in 2016, ran successfully on it, and is totally unconversant with the elements of the issue.
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unconversant
uncovered
The first person uncovered a lantern, and as...
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descoberto
undelayable
... satisfaction of the community's undelayable needs.
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inadmissível
undeniably
... but it is also undeniably linked to rising temperatures...
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inegavelmente
underbelly
... gets to the dark underbelly of advertising, which is...
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"barriga vazia"; debaixo da barriga
undercurrent
... also comes amid an undercurrent of global unease as...
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corrente, presença oculta, subjacente
undercutting
... security adviser John Bolton undercutting the International Criminal Court.
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subcotação, reduzir, baratear
undergirds
That undergirds most of our parenting...
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suportes
undergo
LIII– no one shall undergo legal proceeding or sentencing...
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passar por, submeter-se
undergoing
... several years, LIGO's been undergoing a huge expansion in...
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submete-se, experimenta (undengo = passar, tentar, submeter-se)
undergone
... new nation that has undergone constant evolution.
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passar, tentar, experimentar, submeter-se
underlain
In the early twentieth century, however, it was discovered that much of the High Plains was underlain by a huge aquifer (a rock layer containing large quantities of groundwater).
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estar/constituir a base; submarino;
underlie
... as something that will underlie everything we say about...
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formar a base, ser subjacente a
underlines
... a new scientific study underlines the truth of the...
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sublinhar, enfatizar
underpin
If liberal ideas do not underpin the world, geopolitics risks becoming the balance-of-power, sphere-of-influence struggle that European statesmen grappled with in the 19th century.
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sustentação
underpinned
What underpinned this shame, this" I'm...
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sustentadas
underpromise
... have adopted a mantra:“ Underpromise and overdeliver.” What counts...
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prometer menos
underscore
The errors underscore tensions that are heightened by North Korea’s nuclear program, and a debate over how best to confront it, including today at a U.S.-Canadian summit.
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v. enfatizar, relevar, ressaltar "_"
underscored
... day, Secretary- General Guterres underscored that the consequences of...
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ressaltado; sublinhado
undershooting
Although some designs are better than others, over- or undershooting your desired gear is common, and if you’re pedaling too fast or under too heavy a load, the chain can easily slip off the gears entirely, requiring a greasy manual adjustment.
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subexecução
undertake
It’s not an exercise in an activity stream that I’d like to undertake of getting my ass-kicked every day, not getting paid enough, suffering through years of misery and maybe you all find a problem to solve.
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garantir; tomar para si, responsabilizar-se por
undertakings
... of all public- spirited undertakings for the county or...
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s. obrigação, tarefa
underwent
It was ceremonially broken on the first Sunday of Lent, so rather than having a merely seasonal symbolism it came to have religious significance as well. From Italy the pignatta spread to Spain, where it took on a more ordinary shape, and appare
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submeterse
undid
But in August of 2017, President Trump undid an Obama era order that the federal government account for climate change as it designs public works projects.
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desfez
undoing
Although some of my sources maintained that laws and politics protect the President to a degree that his critics underestimate, others argued that he has already set in motion a process of his undoing.
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ruína
undone
... seem to be really undone by their gifts, you...
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desfeito
undue
... the long run, an undue emphasis on getting a...
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exagerado, indevido
uneven
For this reason, they’re not exceptionally accurate; if your stride length varies (which is more likely if you’re running or navigating uneven terrain), a pedometer may have a margin of error greater than 10%.
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irregular
unfaithful
of an unfaithful trustee;
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infiél
unfettered
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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sem restrições
unflappable
I’m very unflappable.
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imperturbável
unflustered
Many remarked on how unflustered he always appeared, despite...
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sem constrangimento
unfurling
... together, with the petals unfurling from the stowed position.
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desdobrando
unhinged
And, following Trump’s lead, he rallied behindthe unhinged former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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desquiciado
unhyphenated
When we first came, Senator Ray Perrault gave us very good advice: he said become "unhyphenated" Canadians.
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não foi cercado
unimpeachable
... Pat bakes are indeed unimpeachable(and I'm sure even...
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inatacável

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