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China pledged to buy 12 million metric tons of American soybeans during this harvest season and 25 million metric tons a year for the next three years, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

Its emissions of carbon dioxide jumped from around 10 billion tons when the agreement was signed to over 12 billion tons last year, around a third of the global total.

The bomb exploded with the awesome force of twenty thousand tons of TNT.

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The Indonesian miner is increasing the capacity of its first Carbon-in-Leach plant to 2,000 tons a day from 500 tons a day, the analyst notes.

It never felt spacious,with tons of equipment always slightly out of frame.

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

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