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• 794603837 2021-03-23

<{p}>One March morning, a raucous parade of protesters passed by The Economist's offices in midtown Manhattan. Supporters of a policy called the Excluded Workers Fund were showing their discontent, discernible above the ___ of the city traffic, with New York's governor, Kathy Hochul (whose offfice is a few blocks away).<{/p}>

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• Tate 2021-03-21

<{p}>That technology has upended translation is well-known. Many translators have been silently (and guiltily) relying on computers for years. What is newer is the willingness of translation firms, and individual translators, to be out and proud about using machine translation, not as a ___ but as a means to cut costs and turnaroud times.<{/p}>

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• eggyy 2021-03-20

<{p}>The debt burdens of more than half of the region's low-income economies are either judged to be unsustainable or may soon become so, according to the IMF. Governments in such ___ are poorly placed to help their citizens weather a food-price shock.<{/p}>

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• 芒果慕斯 2021-03-18

<{p}><{i}>Sonar<{/i}> is an acronym for "SOund N___ And R___".<{/p}>

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• Royston Yuen 2021-03-18

<{p}>By the twentieth century, two basic systems for <{i}>scuba<{/i}> (s___ u___ breathing a___) had emerged: open-circuit scuba where the diver's exhaled breath is vented directly into the water, and closed-circuit scuba where the carbon dioxide is removed from the diver's exhaled breath which has oxygen added and is recirculated.<{/p}>

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• guml 2021-03-18

<{p}>The term <{i}>laser<{/i}> originated as an acronym for "Light A___ by S___ E___ of R___".<{/p}>

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• lmo0880 2021-03-18

<{p}>SIM (S___ I___ M___) cards are often used when swapping phones.<{/p}>

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• xiaofu001 2021-03-18

<{p}>"Longevity escape velocity" is one of the immortalists' central tenets. This notion holds that if science manages to extend the human lifespan by 20 or 30 years -- to around 110 or 120 -- it will then rise exponentially as new techniques are developed in time to keep the ___ going longer and longer.<{/p}>

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• black97 2021-03-14

<{p}>Moorhouse came to the paper determined to break down its "___" -- MBA-speak for self-contained departments that don't have anything to do with other departments in a business.<{/p}>

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• Royston Yuen 2021-03-14

<{p}>The movie is comprised of several vignettes, each presenting a character along with his or her ___: a staid accountant shares an apartment with a colorful musician; a tight-lipped divorcee on a cross-country roadtrip picks up a garrulous hitchhiker; and finally, and perhaps the most unconvincingly, an introverted mathematician falls in love with a gregarious arriviste.<{/p}>

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• SMALL 2021-03-14

<{p}>In his critique of the student's ___ essay, the writing instructor mostly focused on ___ details, leading many in the class to believe he was either oblivious to the subtleties of the piece or simply envious of the student.<{/p}>

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• 010203 2021-03-14

<{p}>Cheswick's motives are forever ___ by a guardedness so thoroughgoing as to make any attempt to dissect his actions ___.<{/p}>

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• deng_yulin 2021-03-14

<{p}>Amongst Irish-American playwrights of the early 20th century, her work stood out as a/an ___, not so much because of its striking originality but because other contemporaneous works tended to be ___ on most social issues. Her plays, by contrast, allowed the audience to come to its own conclusions, a technique that foreshadowed much of 20th century theatre.<{/p}>

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• dodomickey07 2021-03-14

<{p}>___, she suddenly became ___, even conspiratorial, as the detectives, who had been stymied and had all but given up on extracting an iota of evidence from her, took sedulous notes.<{/p}>

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• 主编 2021-03-14

<{p}>No less obdurate than his predecessor, the new prime minister already faced opposition from those who charged that he refused to ___ even on trifling issues.<{/p}>

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• 蓝色多瑙河 2021-03-14

<{p}>Because even his ___ would be loath to consider his novels ___, either the reviewer of his latest work has been ethically compromised, or the author has actually plotted what can, in all positive senses of the word, be described as a thriller.<{/p}>

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• 默毅品牌设计 2021-03-13

<{p}>Nervous officials seem to be leading more ___ lives than in the past. The expensive watches they once sported are gone. High-end restaurants suffered after the party imposed strict limits on cadres' banquets.<{/p}>

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• 何小帅 2021-03-13

<{p}>As Lynette Ong of the University of Toronto describes in her new book, "Outsourcing Repression, Everyday State Power in Contemporary China", resistance to violent land-grabs in China has been fragmented and easily ___.<{/p}>

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• hymnsoul3 2021-03-12

<{p}>"Having taken 99.2% of the vote as the sole candidate in an election from which an even higher proportion of Hong Kong's people were excluded, the territory's next chief executive, John Lee, made clear why China's Communist Party <{i}>engineered<{/i}> his victory." Here the word <{i}>engineered<{/i}> can be replaced by ___.<{/p}>

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• ZJDZHZ 2021-03-12

<{p}>After the war, the Americans stayed, making Okinawa a de facto colony and ___ land for military bases to support operations in the Korean and Vietnam wars.<{/p}>

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