Word: priory
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...before I go about lamenting how bigoted and benighted the American people are, I must pause to consider whether refusing to vote for a certain category of people is a priori evidence of prejudice. Or rather, since the very definition of the word “prejudice” implies a predisposition for or against something, whether certain prejudices are permissible in the democratic process...
...scientific method can be used to strike back at the talking heads that invade the national airwaves every night (here’s looking at you, ESPN) with their a priori arguments and baseball superstitions...
...beginning of a new semester. It’s quite another to check the “status” of each of your section members based on the original e-mail the TF sends welcoming you call to the class, thus allowing you to decide a priori what kind of “face” to put on for this class...
...from playing an active role in determining their future, rather than simply being shuttled from university to university without any sense of agency. Perhaps this would be cold comfort to the visiting the students who are not accepted, but the opportunity to transfer is better than getting rejected a priori and summarily cast...
...case, “Africans and people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora.” While the author’s choice to exclude himself from the spirit of the festival a priori is surprising, the inferences he draws from his self-exclusion are shocking...