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stuck up
stuck up
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preso
stuffed
... million people stuffed into mud or metal...
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Entupido
stuffing
Finally, the birthday boy had his turn, and in what can only be described as an incredible coincidence, he managed to beat the stuffing out of the thing.
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recheio, enchimento
stuffy
... recall walking into this stuffy hospital room.
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asfixiante; limitado, pessoa de poucos horizontes; enfezado
stumped
If you're stumped on getting started, read...
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desconcertado
stunk
... do, so the house stunk badly.
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Fedeu
stunning
You look stunning.
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impressionante
stunningly
... as artists create giant, stunningly detailed photographs on living...
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de maneira impressionante, estonteante
stunt
... traditional development practices will stunt your growth as a...
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truque/ atrapalhar (v)
stuntman
He also had a childhood ambition to be a stuntman.
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dublê
stylus
... three taps of the stylus, it's too long, and...
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estilete
stymied
But he’s often been stymied by soldiers who guard state-run medical facilities and by government-organized mobs.
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Bloqueou
styrofoam
... that it was abandoning Styrofoam(polystyrene) packing peanuts in...
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isopor
subdue
... a TASER gun to subdue this agitated immigrant and...
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subjugar
subdued
Among undergraduates, reactions have been more subdued.
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adj. subjugado, vencido; empanado
subpoena
At that point, it’s not just talk—they subpoena it.
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verb: intimar; noun: intimação
subsided
After the initial shock at what I had said subsided, there was laughter all around. My wife grew up speaking Cantonese.
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diminuir; abaixar
substandard
... to eradicate poverty and substandard living conditions and to...
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adj. sub-nível; sub-norma
substantiated
Have you made dramatic statements that you have not proven or substantiated?
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comprovado - fundamentado
subtract
... realize you've got to subtract out the unneutralized competitive...
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subtrair
succinctly
succinctly, it seems because there’s less words that the writing must be
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sucintamente
such
03:01 And that’s what that moment with Patricia Schroeder I think shows: that if we are to bring about an end to the world’s worst atrocities, we have to make it such.
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TAL
sucker
But maybe I’m just a sucker for lost causes.
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idiota, bundão, babaca;
suede
... I found a brown suede jacket one time in...
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camurça
sufficed
A single domestic sufficed to serve him.
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suficiente
suffrage
... the 75 th anniversary ofWomen's Suffrage.
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direito de voto
sulfur
... baths have minerals like sulfur, or radium, or even...
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enxofre
summed
I summed it up with the thought it doesn’t get better than this and
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somado / adicionado
summoned
... home from work and summoned the courage, through a...
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convocar, chamar
summons
The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term
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convocação
sundial
Last week, I took the train to Clumber Park, in Nottinghamshire, where the shape of a vanished mansion—complete with internal corridors and a sundial in the garden—reappeared in July.
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relógio de sol
sundry
... heard that he wrote sundry small occasional pieces, but...
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diversos, vários, diferentes, alguns
suneet
Dr. Suneet Agarwal:
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suneet
sunlit
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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iluminado pelo sol
superseded
That was just a few years ago, and since then, the Mach3 has been superseded by models with four and five blades, with or without a vibrating feature—the mind boggles.
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substituída
surefire
... be seen as a surefire sign you are in...
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infalível
surfaced
On August 6th, after a tape recording surfaced which captured him orchestrating the coverup, he was abandoned by Republicans who had previously derided the Watergate scandal as a witch hunt.
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flutuou, surgiu
surge
I love the surge of confidence that gives...
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surto / onda
surmount
I made up my mind then, even before you had finished your speech, that I would make a place for myself, no matter how many difficulties I had to surmount.
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superar, vencer
surmounted
... technical difficulties to be surmounted in constructing such detectors...
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superar
surpass
... the Chinese economy, will surpass that of the U.
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sobrepujar, ultrapassar
surpassed
him so much and now, he surpassed him in terms of how much money he’s
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superar, ultrapassar
surrendering
... leaders and members are surrendering along with so- named‘...
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rendição
surreptitiously
... be a ploy to surreptitiously record an American official...
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subrepticiamente; sorrateiramente
surrogate
There's no surrogate for people paying for...
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substituto
surveyor
But if I'm not mistaken and my history could be wrong, but when they were putting in the railway they couldn't get through the Rockies until they finally... I think Rogers was the guy, the lead surveyor or whatever he was, who found the pass to get the
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inspector
sustenance
... well- being: life, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety,...
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sustento - alimento - sustentação
swallow
For me, this daily battle is a particularly tough pill to swallow, because I’m a sleep researcher, so I know too much about the consequences of sleep loss to be doing this to my own son.
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engolir
swamp
... the machine, drain the swamp, burn the empire to...
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Pântano
swamped
... Olympic Games they were swamped with volunteers.
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inundado
swamps
In any case, this method is still widely used today, even though the water table has dropped considerably over the past two centuries as nearby marshes and swamps were drained.
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inundar; pantano
swan
There wasn’t some discovery or penicillin thing that, whatever, mythology, these are, what I call, the sort of black swan outlier, rock star motif equivalent events that occurred.
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cisne
swapping
It’s like I call it a thought swapping.
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trocando
swarmed
... armed with assault rifles, swarmed a small apartment building...
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enxameavam
swathes
Surprising as it seemed, the experts saw it coming, an epic nor’easter, a full moon high tide and a rising sea, all conspiring to swallow up swathes of Boston with an icy cold winter flood.
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porções
swatter
(In fact, I have been wary of cheese engineering ever since I read The Absurdly Silly Encyclopedia and Fly Swatter by Jovial Bob Stine in 1978.
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mata-moscas
sway
And although virtually every modern camcorder has a built-in device to compensate for the jitter caused by small hand movements, long handheld shots—especially those taken while walking, as is natural for camcorder
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oscilaçao/ influencia
swayed
Image CreditThomas Dunne Books The book says that in a high-level briefing about Russian interference in the 2016 election, Pence was told that intelligence officials hadn’t determined whether that interference had swayed the results.
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inclinou-se
swaying
Jill: I’m watching the trees swaying from the howling wind.
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oscilar; inclinar
sweatshirt
Invest the time and money, if you`ve got to buy a sweatshirt or jacket or whatever, do whatever you have to do, get out and volunteer, be it for the symphony or whatever it might be to make contacts. Now, Volunteer Vancouver would steer you to
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blusa de moletom
sweeping
Most engineers don’t understand law; most engineers don’t understand why governments exist. 3 Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 10 LAW FOR COMPUTING STUDENTS IntroduCtIon Those are sweeping statements, but there is some truth in them.
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envolvente. varredura. erosao
sweltering
This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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sofrer intensamente com o calor
swiftly
... that was also quite swiftly ratified and could enter...
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rapidamente
swiftness
Entrepreneurs seize with swiftness of the wind.
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rapidez
swindled
That used-car salesman who swindled me.
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enganar, fraudar
swine
... events because of the swine flu.
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suíno
swipe
... avoid the gamification of swipe- based apps.
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pancada forte
swiping
... point of this isn't swiping.
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deslizando
switchboards
... Bernardino, we jammed Congressional switchboards.
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quadros de distribuição
swivel
He is also responsible for the swivel chair (a descendant of which I’m now sitting on), an improved version of the dumbwaiter, the hideaway bed, and even the machine used to make macaroni.
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suporte giratório
swoop
... phone in one fell swoop.
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atacar, golpe
swot
Julia: A swot they might call them.
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queimar as pestanas
syllabus
... a little about the syllabus.
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programa de estudos,
syndrome
... is called small- penis syndrome.
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Síndrome
syrup
... hot fudge, and chocolate syrup are all fine if...
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xarope, calda
tab
The final tab for the 2012 games ended up being closer to $15 billion.
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guia, aba, conta(de pagar)
tabs
... be able to keep tabs on new posts about...
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n. etiqueta, placa; argola v. botar etiqueta; indicar
taciturn
... more mysterious for his taciturn manner.
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taciturno, calado
tack
... wall with a thumb- tack, left over from a...
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tacha; prego; adesão; curso, direção
tacked
... she found a note, tacked to the wall with...
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pregado
tacks
... a receptacle for the tacks.
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tachas
tail
There's the whole long tail problem they have.
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cauda
tailor
Tailor the initial product release to satisfy their needs.
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Alfaiate
tailored
According to Rice, the United States and other members of the Security Council need to ensure that mandates given to peacekeeping missions are well-tailored, achievable and rational.
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feito sob medida
tailpipes
... coming out of diesel tailpipes.
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escapamentos
taint
... do not touch or taint the goods they exchange.
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manchar
tainted
And if he doesn’t do that, then whatever his policy views will always be tainted by the sense that there’s an aroma of bigotry around it.
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Contaminado
takeaway
That’s the takeaway from a forthcoming bookby the journalists Michael D’Antonio, who previously wrote “The Truth About Trump,” and Peter Eisner.
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Leve embora
takeaways
That means each and every article (including this one, if you paid attention) starts with a compelling personal story to engage readers, moves into my own personal perspective on an issue, and leaves readers with one to four key takeaways.
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Ponto chave de algo
take hold in
... idea has begun to take hold in more and more North...
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a materializar-se em
take into account
... and that doesn't even take into account the down payment.
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levar em conta
take it up a notch
take it up a notch
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pegue um entalhe
takeout
... shot me was Chinese takeout, huh?
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tirar, retirar
tallies
Respondents with tallies above a threshold are...
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Contagens, cálculos, registros
tallow
... Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice,...
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sebo
tame
... pictures to Twitter sound tame.
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comportado; amansar, domar, domesticar
tames
But as user reviews are added by the millions, social media becomes a substitute for live interaction and cheap international data tames a once-wild world into digital submission, the good travel yarn is in decline.
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domesticar
tamper
Like more general lost-and-found services, NBR provides you with a tamper-resistant ID label for your bike which includes a URL and a toll-free phone number.
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adulterar
tandem
... rose to power in tandem with a rising working...
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um depois do outro, bicicleta de 2 acentos (garupa)
tanked
It tanked.
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bêbado, quebrado, estragado; que não está funcionando (info)
tanning
Jill: people are sun tanning up there.
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bronzear-se
tantalize
... shops, and bakeries that tantalize and inspire.
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atormentar
tantalizing
... often comes, elusive and tantalizing, and he wants it,...
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tentadora
tantamount
... this stolen document is tantamount to condoning theft.
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equivalente
tantrum
Throw a tantrum?
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birra, raiva, mau-humor
tantrums
tantrums and you just scream all the time.
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birra, pirraça, chilique infantil, de criança.
tapped
tapped in you’re going to be, the more you’re going to be able to create
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fazer escuta (de telefone); grampeado; explorar (recursos), canalizar?
tapped in
tapped in
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bateu em
tapper
... was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring...
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seringueiro
taproot
... the trunk, a long taproot extends an additional several...
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perpendicular
taps
Female 2: It taps into the rawest level...
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torneiras
tar
He had an idea that the reaction between phenol (derived from coal tar) and formaldehyde might be promising.
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Alcatrão
tarpaulin
ved and so we saw a lot of houses which were ... which had ... barely had roofs, for example, they would just have ... there would be kind of like a tent or they would have a tarpaulin with one of the UN agencies'
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lona
tarps
... home improvement: putting plastic tarps on your roof.
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lonas
tart
... of raisins or a tart from the pastry- cook's,...
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Azedo, ácido; picante.
tattered
... day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped...
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esfarrapado; desgastado
taunting
I don’t think that it’s taunting to stand up for the people of this country.
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insultos
taut
Then, with the help of the local Indians, August Jack and Willie Khahtsahlano and a team of horses, he pulled taut the first hemp rope and cedar plank bridge 450 feet across the Capilano River.
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firme; tenso; organizado, limpo
tawny
... would probably have a tawny port, either from Portugal...
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adj. marrom-amarelado
teak
We’ve got a barbeque and table and chairs and I actually want to get a few nice teak chaise lounge chairs to put out there and then I definitely want to do some nice flowers and plants this year.
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teca / TIPO DE ARVORE (fabrício)
teamed
... computer scientists as they teamed up in constantly changing...
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juntou
teamed up
Last year the startup teamed up with the city of...
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uniu-se
teardown
Jill: But, I mean the cheapest house over there is a million dollars and that’s for this tiny lot that has a house that you have to teardown and build on.
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desmontar
tearing
... over a problem currently tearing many other countries apart:...
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o ato de rasgar
teas
... here are four different teas that we've tested.
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chás
tease
Mark: Yeah, you know, whereas girls aren’t going to tease each other about their names.
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provocar
teased
Jill: ... be teased his whole life.
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v. importunar; provocar, irritar; pentear no sentido oposto
teases
The flap copy teases the book as “a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions.” I had some misgivings about reaching out to him again, in the wake of the Uber incident.
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provoca
teddy
... a baby and its teddy bear or a baby...
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pelúcia (teddy bear)
teemed
Coal Harbour once teemed with herring, its beaches...
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proliferar, abundar
teeming
There’s another source of hesitation too: however flawlessly such a system may work, the question remains whether the teeming masses will like it and trust it enough to give up their cars.
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abundante/ repleto
teeny
... in is this little, teeny window down here.
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pequenininho, pequenino, diminuto
telescopes
... at night of the telescopes or even of myself,...
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telescópios
teller
The drive-through teller window was open late, but I didn’t have a car at the time.
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Caixa de banco
tempests
Political tempests often intrude on presidents, whether they are traveling overseas or playing host to foreign leaders at the White House.
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tempestades
template
without a roadmap and believes that no model or template could possibly apply.
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modelo
tenable
Two other problems exist, however, which must be resolved before the DRO theory starts to becomes truly tenable.
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sustentável
tenets
... all grounded in the tenets of biology.
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dogma, princípio, credo
ten fold
... falls by usually about ten- fold in six months.
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dez vezes (multiplicado por dez)
tenths
IV– 4.5%(four and five tenths per cent) in the...
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décimos
termites
... and also invulnerable to termites and other pests.
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cupins
terrain
But China's extreme terrain and size have created...
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terreno, área
tethered
It is barely tethered to any sort of...
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amarrados
thawing
... than normal, causing the thawing of the North Pole...
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descongelando
thaw out
thaw out
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descongelar
the ballpark
... miles/ second)— certainly in the ballpark. Meanwhile, Foucault was working...
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estádio
thee
Abraham, patriarch of both Arabs and Jews, sacrificed power for peace when he said to his nephew, Lot, "Let there be no strife between thee and me.
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te
the herd
... I'm too close to the herd, the problem is they...
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a manada
their tails off
... hundred interns who worked their tails off to make this happen.
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suas caudas fora
the long haul
... you're in it for the long haul, make sure that the...
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o longo curso
thence
... shipped to America and thence who knows where.
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daquele lugar
the penny drops
... maybe as we say, the penny drops.
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a ficha cai.
thereabouts
... one a month, or thereabouts.
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aproximadamente
thereof
... or a reasonable facsimile thereof).
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do mesmo
there's just not a whole lot one can do
... it ever was, but there's just not a whole lot one can do with the notion.
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simplesmente não há muito que se possa fazer
theresome
Isn’t theresome truth in it?
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impressionante
thesaurus
We were always taught at school, I think, amongst a few things that I remember from school, was that I was told to not repeat the same word, you know, in close proximity to, you know, a previous usage of the word, so we would tend to go into our thes
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a book of sinonyms
the stems
... is not merely academic; the stems, which may appear to...
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as hastes
the treacherous
... those who embark on the treacherous journey in unseaworthy boats.
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O traiçoeiro
thickness
The shotcrete reaches a thickness of about 3 inches(8 cm),...
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espessura
thieves
... in and they have thieves who are called" grillos"...
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Ladrões, bandidos
thighs
... If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair, will...
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coxa
thingy
... put them in a... thingy... a box.
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Coisa
thinly
Kenneth, I want to ask you specifically about North Korea, because, in this case, we have the president tweeting not-so-thinly-veiled insults at the North Korean leader.
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de forma fina
thinness
thought that thinness or success meant ... you know success with my
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magreza
thither
... with to accompany them thither, where they expected to...
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para lá, para ali
thoroughfare
... Brookside Drive, a major thoroughfare in the city, according...
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via pública
thou
If thou will take the left hand, then I will go to the right."
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vossa
thrashed
I’ve always thrashed against that because what if my present moment
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v. bater, sovar, espancar; lidar, trabalhar; derrotar; mover
thread
... thread or a productivity thread.
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caminho, corda, fio
threeish
Very rarely Jill and I have these disagreements, but honestly, I (don’t) think few means two, but two or threeish.
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threeish
thrillers
... a great fan of thrillers, you know, who- done-...
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SUSPENSE; livro ou filme de suspense
thrilling
... settings, it is absolutely thrilling... for about 30 minutes, because...
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excitante, estimulante
throes
... to be in the throes of ecstasy."
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espasmos
thronged
It operated mostly outside university bounds because of penalties it had incurred after a now infamous incident five years prior, when a pack of pledges thronged the freshman residential quadrangle to shout an initiation chant: “No means yes, yes mea
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aglomeravam
throngs
... Itdoesn't end and the throngs of people everywhere; it's...
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multidão
throughput
... we get pretty reasonable throughput on the internet, because...
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Taxa de transferência
thrust
“They didn't care what we thought.” On Sunday, the portrait of Kavanaugh's time at Yale came into sharper focus, when The New Yorker reported that Democrats are investigating a new allegation against him by a college classmate, Deborah Ramirez, who c
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empurrão, golpe, impulso; empuxo, propulsão (como a de um avião)
thud
When people accuse you of building castles in the air, they are not usually congratulating you on an incredible engineering feat, but more likely trying to bring you back down to earth with a thud.
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pancada, baque
thug
I abhor the thug as much as I...
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bandido
thugs
If the Twentieth Century proved anything, it is that the single greatest danger to human life are the thugs of the centralized political State, who extinguished more than 170 million souls during the bloodiest rampage in recorded history.
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criminoso, gangster, assassino.
thumbtacks
... you a candle, some thumbtacks and some matches.
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tachinhas
thumping
the consultant, is concerned that, in 2018, Party faces a convergence of vulnerabilities akin to those which pertained during the 2006 midterms, whose outcome George W. Bush characterized as “a thumping.” Schmidt told me
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espancar; socar; cair
thunderstruck
... Eric Whitacre: I was thunderstruck.
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estupefato
thwarted
... suicide attempts can be thwarted.
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frustrados
thwarting
By thwarting other branches, Nixon weakened his support in Congress and convinced the country that he had something to hide.
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frustrando, frustração
thwarts
... any social action that thwarts your capacity to survive...
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Frusta
thyself
And to do that who knows who’s on the right, this is the Oracle from the Matrix because she tells Neo you got to know thyself.
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a ti mesmo
tick
... thread andthere's just a tick box at the top...
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tique, sinalizar, carrapato
ticking
because time’s a ticking for most of us.
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tique-taque, o toque do relógio
tickle
... dolphins can buzz and tickle each other at a...
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n. cócegas, excitação v. fazer cócegas
ticks
... off his watch, which ticks, like a metal pulse...
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carrapatos
tidal
... own, and the star's tidal forces shredded planetary material...
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maré
tidbits
... Among the other interesting tidbits we learned was that...
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gulodice; bocado; migalha
tide
The enemies of peace have fought the tide of history with terror and violence.
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maré
tiebreaking
Pence cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate to confirm her as education secretary.
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Destravar
tilt
But unlike automotive shock absorbers, a steadicam must also compensate for pan (horizontal rotation), tilt (rotation up or down), and roll (rotation about the axis of the lens)—but only when these changes are not explicitly implemented by the operat
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inclinar

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