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to look for and correct mistakes in (a written or printed piece of writing)
He proofread the essay carefully.
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Schedule system reviews quarterly and assign ownership, with one person responsible for auditing each system, flagging outdated steps and implementing improvements.
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She's being held on $50,000 bail as the District Attorney's Office reviews the case.
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Michael Tippett, a climate scientist at Columbia University who studies the ties between El Niño and weather patterns, said that on average, there is no strong link between El Niño and shifts in summer weather patterns over the US and Europe.
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Beginning in kindergarten, children’s knowledge of numbers becomes more formal and symbol-based, according to Alice Klein, a developmental psychologist who studies early math screening and intervention.
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The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.
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Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for your data, and Privacy Monitor seeks your data profile on data broker and aggregator websites.
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The painful irony is that this retreat, invisible from the inside, reads as uncertainty from the outside.
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Its parent company is Taiheiyo Cement, a Japanese company that bought CalPortland in 1990, its website reads.
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Martha frequently grabs a bowl for serving dinner or peruses a favorite cookbook.
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In an episode 4 scene, Sadie Sink's Max peruses through Vecna's memories, seeing a younger Joyce passing out flyers for the school play Oklahoma, which is a big plot point in the ST stage play.
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