Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost every store in Chinatown sits the canned Lychee, a tropical fruit that physically resembles an eyeball. Lychees usually have a black solid pit, but the ones from a can are pitless and 100 percent edible. Some students even enjoy drinking the syrup they come...
...touchdowns plus two two-point conversions to tie the game. No room for error whatsoever. There would be no possibility of a win, only a tie. Circumstance so rarely affords any team or individual to play out a heroic miracle such as that; when and while it happens, it almost seems preordained that the miracle outcome might manifest...
...With Walland nursing a sore shoulder, quarterback T.J. Hyland struggled as his replacement, throwing three interceptions in the first quarter. The Yale defense almost single-handedly won the game for the Elis, by setting up Yale's first touchdown drive with a fumble recovery at the San Diego 19 and by completely shutting down the Torero offense. Blake, who blocked the ill-fated extra point in the Brown game, managed to block a field goal and a punt for the Elis...
...professors share the same office, the same filing cabinet, a single to-do list and almost include the other in their e-mail correspondence. Longtime co-researchers, the scholars even conduct phone calls together and, since Labor Day, share the position of academic dean...
Burke suggested that MIT chose to discipline Yoo almost two years after the death in order to avoid financial damages in impending litigation...