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were

[wur, wer, wair] / wɜr, wər, wɛər /




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His laughs generally were created not at his expense, or that of his listener, but of some third party.

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According to the preliminary monthly run of the Chicago Fed’s labor-market model, employment fundamentals like the hiring rate for unemployed workers and the rates of layoffs and quits were likely little changed this month.

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The U.S. solar energy transition could slow if the supply of Chinese-made solar panels were suddenly cut off, for instance, but that wouldn’t be an immediate national-security catastrophe.

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There was something sort of thrilling in the sense that we were pioneers in a brand-new millennium, one so fresh and unsullied.

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But if the AI trade were to blow up, he said, the blast radius could be wide.

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