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any of several modifications or combinations of the brilliant cut, step cut, or table cut, having the girdle outline often in some novel form.

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We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
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In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
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The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
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“I got the weaver to use his craftsmanship on modern silhouettes we designed,” he said.
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The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.
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At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
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It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
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