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Hace 6 horas · Basic+ Word of the Day: scratch. July 2, 2024. scratch (verb, noun) past tense: scratched LISTEN. They scratched their initials into the bench. Scratch means ‘to scrape with the fingernails to relieve itching.’. William scratched my back because I couldn't reach the area that itched. Scratch also means ‘to draw on a rough, grating surface
Hace 6 horas · July 2, 2024. hunch (verb, noun) /hʌntʃ/ LISTEN. Sit up straight—don't hunch! As a verb, to hunch means ‘to arch in a hump ‘, and also ‘to walk, stand or sit in a bent way.’. In US English, it can also mean to lunge or thrust yourself forward, though this use is now uncommon. As a noun, a hunch is of course a hump, but it is also a ...
Hace 6 horas · Comment of the week: “Every dead cop means one less vote for Le Pen”, thus combining support for lawlessness with political terrorism in one pithy sentence. On a parallel note: the Greens got no votes at all (being part of the 3.1% “Other”, which encompasses over a dozen parties. Roll on, Sunday.
Hace 6 horas · DEIR AL-BALAH (AP) – Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby to wash their hands. In the stifling summer heat, Palestinians say the odour and filth surrounding them is just […]
Hace 6 horas · These days, the repeat string method is implemented almost everywhere. (It is not in Internet Explorer.)So unless you need to support older browsers, you can simply write: "a".repeat(10) Before repeat, we used this hack:. Array(11).join("a") // create string with 10 a's: "aaaaaaaaaa"
Hace 6 horas · The best it can do is to point out isolated instances of difficulty. This gives support to the lie of “press objectivity” and increases the circulation and business. More business means more expensive advertisements, which bring in more than subscriptions. They are the primary source of newspaper revenue.
Hace 6 horas · Under the narrow ruling, the state laws remain intact, but lower court injunctions also remain in place, meaning both laws continue to be paused. Although the justices voted 9-to-0 to return the cases to the lower courts, they splintered on the reasoning, with several writing separate concurrences to lay out their positions.
