root
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Elma says that Charmain felt strongly enough to leave her son behind and fly to Ghana to try to "get to the root of things".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a “cosmic entity” and a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Students say the cap treats the symptoms of grade inflation rather than the root cause.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
When bacteria spread into the tissues surrounding the tooth root, the immune system reacts.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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