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If you are just starting, it’s helpful to have a lot of money tucked away that you can live off of without the pressure of having to make money.

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"If I had that space to consider options and for things to settle down with friendships, I think it would be helpful," she said.

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A helpful way to picture them is to imagine manipulating a Rubik's cube in several dimensions at once by rotating, slicing, or rearranging its layers.

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"We didn't play our best game in the first half and we course-corrected nicely and made some adjustments to what we were doing and it was helpful in the third."

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Prof Weber says they should be used "extremely carefully and soberly", but he's hopeful that it is helpful in some way.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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