STAAR English I: Foreign Words and Phrases 1

In 2015 they turned their shared studio in Chinatown into an ad hoc alternative art space and impromptu residency program called Practice. New York Times (Jan 12, 2017)

Google is trying to quell the debates roiling its workforce by setting new internal rules designed to limit offensive language and ad hominem attacks against fellow employees. Wall Street Journal (Jun 27, 2018)

The art establishment finds these artists too avant-garde in their use of light, a bright palette, visible brushstrokes, unusual composition, and strange angles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

Mark Owen isn’t his real name, but book publisher Penguin says its new author was a bona fide Navy SEAL. Time (Aug 24, 2012)

With that, I bid thee farewell, dear readers, and bon voyage. Washington Post (Mar 26, 2020)

Lest these conclusions be misinterpreted, we should end this chapter with caveats against exaggerating two points: peoples’ readiness to accept better crops and livestock, and the constraints imposed by locally available wild plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

She cautioned the public to weigh “both potential benefits and risks,” to which I would add caveat emptor — buyer beware. New York Times (Mar 8, 2021)

She graduated cum laude from Cornell, and received a master’s degree in the science of education from Johns Hopkins University. New York Times (Oct 7, 2018)

Installed in a prime position in the Basilica di San Marco, which at that time was the official church of the Venetian state, it became a de facto symbol of the city and its empire. New York Times (Mar 31, 2011)

The play caused deja vu for Young, who recalled seeing a pass just like that a decade ago. Los Angeles Times (Mar 2, 2021)

I’m still fantasizing that a deus ex machina will descend from the heavens to resolve the situation. Love, Hate & Other Filters

At other times the most vocal experts suddenly agree en masse that the old wisdom was wrong and that the new wisdom is, for a little while at least, irrefutably right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

If Toby went to the apartment right now, a mea culpa on his lips, Luke would forgive him. We'll Fly Away

She didn’t run, per se, but she left the line and did a ridiculously fast walk toward the back of the store, near the clearance section, where they did their cooking classes. Far from the Tree

Many of these cases were done on a pro bono basis, as I do half of my cases without fee. Washington Post (Aug 6, 2019)

The most logical explanation is that the wrestlers made a quid pro quo agreement: you let me win today, when I really need the victory, and I’ll let you win the next time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

People tended to reconcile themselves to the status quo, declaring that ‘this is how it always was, and this is how it always will be’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The film is inspired by the 1970 meeting between Presley and the president, a tete-a-tete captured in a famous White House photograph. Washington Times (Apr 12, 2016)

Representatives of the other two websites said their computers are programmed to copy data verbatim from Wikipedia, never checking whether it is false or factual. The World Is Flat

If something is not alive, then it’s dead, and vice versa. The Sense of Style