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rook

verb as in trick

verb as in cheat

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Peter Rook KC, judicial vice-chairman of the Parole Board of England and Wales said he understood that public hearings can provide "insight into the case and parole process".

From BBC

"She just has such incredible physical stamina, mental toughness and just sheer determination to go out and do these extreme efforts," said Anne-Marije Rook, North America editor at Cycling Weekly magazine.

From BBC

Rook, of Cycling Weekly, said the efforts of Wilcox and Graham were motivation for others: "What Jenny Graham, Lael Wilcox, and women like them are doing is just pushing the boundaries. Not just in what's possible in terms of cycling, but the boundaries that have been set on women athletes."

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And now his face and voice have been resurrected as a new character named Rook, also synthetic.

Alvarez says his team considered the whole range of synthetics in “Alien” films over the years: Lance Henriksen appeared as Bishop in “Aliens” and then again in David Fincher‘s 1992 “Aliens 3” — in the latter as a legless torso on a table like Rook — while Michael Fassbender played David 8 in Scott’s “Prometheus” and Walter One in “Alien: Covenant.”

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