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be contained in

verb as in consist

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verb as in inhere

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Lawsuits and criminal cases “are social post-mortems; they do not deal with the diagnosis of living situations, but with judgments as to dead and past events. All that is available by way of data for the task is the report that individuals can give of the present state of their recollection of past observation and whatever record may be contained in existing documents and, occasionally, other things.”

From Slate

The Minister for Children and Families, Janet Daby, has told us that the government is committed to “cracking down on providers making excessive profits”, and that measures will be contained in the upcoming Children’s Wellbeing Bill, Labour’s flagship legislation on education and children’s care.

From BBC

In his Construction vases, a flood of pigmented foam breaks through the ceramic barriers, defeating any expectation that water should be contained in a vessel.

He said the answer may be added to an existing bill or it could be contained in a stand-alone measure.

However, some recent reports have farmers, trade groups and even politicians really concerned about what information will be contained in the next set of guidelines — specifically when it comes to potatoes.

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

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