Word: outgrows
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place in his social tool kit. It perfectly complemented his aptitude for remembering names and faces, and it was simply too useful a talent to outgrow...
...will be confidential. We're not going to try to make money off of this. Our ultimate goal is for start-ups to outgrow our services," Rubalcava said. Rubalcava noted that great businesses have been conceived at colleges, including Microsoft, Dell and Yahoo...
...columnists and TV journalists, who in turn hunt only for their flaws in an effort to be clever and thus noticed. There's no trick in being clever and noticed; any deft young journalist can do it, and some--encumbered by fatal cuteness, disappointment or lack of dignity--never outgrow the impulse. Talking like Jackie Robinson, or like Ronald Reagan, our last sublimely corny President, takes more self-confidence and aggressive innocence but--provided that one means what one says--it pays...
Beirut is trying to outgrow these "quaint" imperfections. The country's tumultuous civil war brought invading armies, marauding militias and enough political intrigues to make Watergate seem demure. But the country has a new chance now with an Israeli withdrawal on the horizon. It is a moment to watch...
...world. It is a way to work things out, to learn, and to grow. If we are to define work as the aestheticists do, as an essential action, then we have to include most types of play under this definition. And it is my belief that we never outgrow this need for play-and I do mean need. I doubt that there's a culture on earth that hasn't institutionalized some form of performance directed at adults. We may learn to do the work of understanding our world through other means-through literature, for instance, as Jonsons critics would...