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But they are equally earnestly jazzed about the project—moved by the contestants’ creativity and skills and eager to promote the idea that making things, while increasingly rare, has never been more sustentative.

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I could have inserted dialogismes, displaying their interrogatory part with communicatively pysmatick and sustentative flourishes; or proleptically, with the refutative schemes of anticipation and subjection, and that part which concerns the responsory, with the figures of permission and concession.

Alderson said the Mets had met on a number of occasions with Jose Reyes’s agents, but that the conversations were not sustentative in terms of what it might take to sign the free-agent shortstop.

The sustentative factor has acquired particular prominence in the human species, since Malthus wrote his essay on population—that essay which both Darwin and Wallace confess was the starting point of their discovery of natural selection.

These causes may be conveniently divided as in the above diagram, into sustentative and non-sustentative.

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

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