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Beneficent

a person who is generous (who is doing good)

Riker Googling

@rikergoogling.bsky.social

beneficent cumberscrunge

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Quibble

slight objection or criticism; argue or raise objections about something that is trivial

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.

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Apprise

to inform; to tell someone; to notify; to advise; to make aware

Actualités françaises 🇫🇷

@news-flows-fr.bsky.social

LIGNE ROUGE - Sa méthode de négociation musclée, Donald Trump l’a apprise auprès d’un avocat new-yorkais peu recommandable

Alors qu’il tente toujours de conclure un accord entre la Russie et l’Ukraine, les équipes de Ligne Rouge se sont intéressées à la méthode de négociation de Trump. A ceux...

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Baseness

lack of moral principles

William Shakespeare

@shakespeare.lol

I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair, and labor’d much
How to forget that learning, but, sir, now
It did me yeman’s service.

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1. the official legal exclusive right to make or sell an invention for a set period of time 2. easily recognizable; obvious 3. open and unobstructed; failing to close; exposed; typically used in the medical context to describe a vessel, duct, or aperture Note: originates from the Latin patere, which means 'to lay open'

CNBC-e

@cnbce.bsky.social

Türk mühendis geliştirdi: Cep telefonu şarj süresini uzatan buluş patent aldı

#News

https://www.cnbce.com/teknoloji/turk-muhendis-gelistirdi-cep-telefonu-sarj-suresini-uzatan-bulus-patent-aldi-h20925

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Recapitulates

summarize and restate main points; restate briefly

@ie-nb.bsky.social

Organ-on-a-chip system reveals how aging weakens vaccine-driven anti-cancer immunity

https://https://www.newsbeep.com/ie/175114/

Dr. Vadim Jucaud’s lab at the Terasaki Institute has introduced a new organ-on-a-chip platform that recapitulates age-dependent immune…

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Conundrum

some sort of confusing, difficult problem or question; quandary; a dilemma

Alex A. Pagliuca

@alexpagliuca.bsky.social

"How much attention should be paid to thoughtless and/or stupid people?" is an endless conundrum.

To some degree, it's better to simply ignore them. But you can't really just ignore them completely, because when no one's looking, some asshole is going to get them all worked up over some dumb shit.

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Investiture

the action of formally investing a person with some honors or rank (ex. the ceremony where the Queen makes you a knight)

GingerOph

@gingeroph.bsky.social

Je suis en live sur GTA RP !
Ce soir, investiture du nouveau gouverneur + on doit démissionner (sinon on meurt) + on se fait toujours stalk.

Riley Green c'est parti: https://twitch.tv/gingerOph 🥳

#gtarp #gtav #roleplay #gliferewind #glife #twitch #stream

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Syncopation

the normal rhythm or beat is shifted (a musical term); something that is happening in a slightly offbeat manner; counterpoint rhythm

Bevis Musson

@bevismusson.bsky.social

No actual video today, but never mind because this one is very much about how much fun Jinkx and DeLa are having with the rhymes and the syncopation

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Desiccate

To dry thoroughly

ktb ⧉

@kevinbaker.bsky.social

why are the ranks of conservative movement filled with either the dampest men imaginable or men that look like a desiccated gas station hot dog.

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