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Baltimore should be rested after a week off and could do a respectable job against Chicago’s ground game.

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The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.

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In the end, Sinatra achieved his goal to help make pop music more respectable, in rough parallel to his concurrent campaign on behalf of civil rights and racial equality.

We’ve seen stem cell hype regurgitated by otherwise respectable news organizations, abetted by high-profile athletes attesting to miracle cures of their musculoskeletal ailments.

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The Canadian telco’s C$3.9 billion free cash flow target by 2028 is also in line, which the analyst calls “respectable.”

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

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