This is the name of a plumbing joint, and it is also the new term for an “ESL” student, abbr.
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Across
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This is the name of a plumbing joint, and it is also the new term for an “ESL” student, abbr.
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Abbr. name of the sea where the United States has vessels around the Philippines
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The part of a certain video-sharing app that is full of non-Japanese Japanophiles
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The Pythagorean theorem is a special case of this other guy's theorem, which is about the dimensions of circumscribed quadrilaterals. He is better known for astronomy.
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In math, this word can describe statements, theorems, and inequalities, and it means "as strong as possible.” Outside math, this word can describe cheese.
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This sentiment was surprisingly common among American environmentalists in the 1970s (they were optimistic that a certain fossil fuel could be "cleaned")
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When the roads __ __, a safety-minded person might choose not to drive
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Abbr. for the Disorder you get from Cumulative Trauma
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Abbr. for the Equipment of the Data Terminal
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Abbr. for machinery that has a Platform that Elevates Workers
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What I might say to a friend who, like me, wants to spend the day lying down
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My sense of __ shattered when I found out my real birthday is in April, not August
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Bodybuilder's "juice," one of them
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In Euclidean space, a set is __ iff it is closed and bounded. So says the Heine-Borel theorem.
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The limit
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Chess theorem: the opening position, with __ to move, is impossible
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Abbr. for what the education sphere now calls a teachers' staff meeting, or the group of teachers leading one. A Learning Community, of Professionals.