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"He gave a tepid performance.",
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"Output prices for both PMIs were subdued, indicating inflation is tepid in China. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Demand for the vaccine also appears to be tepid in other countries. \u2014 Rebecca Robbins, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"The change was needed, Democrats said, to ensure important propositions weren\u2019t decided in June elections when voter turnout is often tepid . \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"While new businesses are sprouting up across the country, enrollment numbers, at the undergraduate level continue to be tepid . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The Republican Governors Association issued a tepid response after the race was called, not promising financial support. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Lawmakers in Congress and officials in the administration have been disappointed in ASEAN\u2019s tepid response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The Kassab family blasted the city for its tepid response to the arson and theft in the downtown core on May 30. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The memo received a tepid response internally, with some groups that represent Disney employees like the Animation Guild releasing statements about the company\u2019s decision. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"He gave a tepid performance.",
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"Output prices for both PMIs were subdued, indicating inflation is tepid in China. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Demand for the vaccine also appears to be tepid in other countries. \u2014 Rebecca Robbins, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"The change was needed, Democrats said, to ensure important propositions weren\u2019t decided in June elections when voter turnout is often tepid . \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"While new businesses are sprouting up across the country, enrollment numbers, at the undergraduate level continue to be tepid . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The Republican Governors Association issued a tepid response after the race was called, not promising financial support. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Lawmakers in Congress and officials in the administration have been disappointed in ASEAN\u2019s tepid response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The Kassab family blasted the city for its tepid response to the arson and theft in the downtown core on May 30. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The memo received a tepid response internally, with some groups that represent Disney employees like the Animation Guild releasing statements about the company\u2019s decision. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"He gave a tepid performance.",
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"Output prices for both PMIs were subdued, indicating inflation is tepid in China. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Demand for the vaccine also appears to be tepid in other countries. \u2014 Rebecca Robbins, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"The change was needed, Democrats said, to ensure important propositions weren\u2019t decided in June elections when voter turnout is often tepid . \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"While new businesses are sprouting up across the country, enrollment numbers, at the undergraduate level continue to be tepid . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The Republican Governors Association issued a tepid response after the race was called, not promising financial support. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Lawmakers in Congress and officials in the administration have been disappointed in ASEAN\u2019s tepid response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The Kassab family blasted the city for its tepid response to the arson and theft in the downtown core on May 30. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The memo received a tepid response internally, with some groups that represent Disney employees like the Animation Guild releasing statements about the company\u2019s decision. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"Evelyn the woman with hot dogs for fingers (don\u2019t ask) and Evelyn the teppanyaki chef. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The other cooking surface on the island is his rectangular teppanyaki grill. \u2014 Janice O'leary, Robb Report , 19 Mar. 2022",
"One became a huge Hong Kong action star (that Evelyn is closest to real-life Yeoh), others an opera singer, a maid or a teppanyaki -style chef. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 11 Mar. 2022",
"This Japanese bistro serves yakitori, teppanyaki and robata meats, but be sure to peruse the menu of sashimi and nigiri, including fresh hamachi, tender otoro and rich uni. \u2014 Jennifer Kester, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
"That includes the casino, the popular R Bar, the Bull & Bear English Pub, Schooner bar, and teppanyaki restaurant Izumi. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 2 July 2021",
"Caterers would serve teppanyaki to students seated at a horseshoe of tables around the edge of the school\u2019s quad. Invitations were sent. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2021",
"Other highlights include 12 distinct dining venues, including two options from Michelin-star recipient Spanish Chef Ram\u00f3n Freixa, French chocolates and pastries from Chef Jean Philippe Maury plus sushi, teppanyaki and steakhouse among others. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 17 Dec. 2020",
"Other highlights include 12 distinct dining venues, including two options from Michelin-star recipient Spanish Chef Ram\u00f3n Freixa, French chocolates and pastries from Chef Jean Philippe Maury plus sushi, teppanyaki and steakhouse among others. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 17 Dec. 2020"
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"French t\u00e9pale , alteration (influenced by s\u00e9pale sepal, from New Latin sepalum ) of p\u00e9tale petal, from New Latin petalum":""
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"The chef volunteers streamed around a long set of outdoor tables serving fish tacos and tepary bean stew on red school lunch trays. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Wake dad up with a steak and eggs brunch ($19) of mesquite grilled flank steak served with chipotle chimichurri, Ramona Farms tepary bean puree, Kennebec breakfast potatoes and grilled Mama Lola flour tortillas. \u2014 Georgann Yara, azcentral , 15 June 2020",
"The menu offers vegetarian versions of classic southwestern dishes, including breakfast burritos, cauliflower tacos and tepary bean and mushroom burgers. \u2014 Tirion Morris, azcentral , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Along with the cultural aspect, there's the nutritional aspect to the tepary bean , Velvet said. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 28 Feb. 2020",
"The small tepary beans that grow in the harsh, dry American Southwest are an heirloom variety that has been cultivated and harvested wild by countless generations of Native people in the region. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Nov. 2019",
"Many of the beans that beat the heat had a common ancestor in their family trees: tepary beans , which are tiny, drought- and heat-tolerant beans that grow in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. \u2014 Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American , 24 Mar. 2015",
"Ramona Farms grows three different types of tepary beans , Velvet said. \u2014 Shondiin Silversmith, azcentral , 4 July 2019",
"Gepts stepped over to a row of scraggly-looking tepary beans and cracked open a pod. \u2014 Junot D\u00edaz, The New Yorker , 17 Apr. 2018"
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"Turkish, hill, summit":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Planet Marfa, an outdoor dive bar with a courtyard centered around a tepee and a school bus, was my go-to spot to escape the afternoon heat with a cold beer. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Guests can practice yoga and meditation at an on-site yoga tepee and deck built on a spiritual vortex once identified by a shaman. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 13 Apr. 2019",
"In August, over the National Park Service\u2019s birthday week, there will be another opportunity for visitors to engage directly with tribal members when a tepee village is set up at the Roosevelt Arch. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Light the tinder, and once the sticks catch fire, layer on more kindling, then another tepee of larger logs, keeping the doorways open. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The central tepee at Cave City \u2014 which originally housed a restaurant \u2014 stands three stories tall and contains 18 tons of steel. \u2014 Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com , 19 Sep. 2021",
"That may be building with Legos, sitting alone in a tepee or reading a book. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Feb. 2021",
"Toward midnight, a half-dozen of us climb a hill behind the tepee . \u2014 Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine , 24 Nov. 2020",
"The outer logs on the tepee should be 5 inches thick. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2017"
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"Dakota t h \u00edpi , from t h i- to dwell":""
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"Mexican Spanish Tepehu\u00e1n, Tepehuane , from Nahuatl Tepehuan , from tepetl mountain + huan at the junction of":""
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"Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl tepetatl , from tetl stone + petatl matting":""
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": an extinct man that is known from a fossilized skeleton found in the Valley of Mexico and attributed to the late Pleistocene and that was probably coeval with Folsom man":[]
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"definitions":{
": the phylacteries worn by Jews":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, the tephra used in the tomb's mortar contained much more potassium-rich leucite. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The ice cores' tephra , which has a unique geochemical fingerprint, can be used to link the volcanic eruption to an exact volcanic source. \u2014 David Bressan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"However, the tephra used in the tomb's mortar contained much more potassium-rich leucite. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Feb. 2022",
"As every layer of ice represents one year, layers showing traces of volcanic tephra can be precisely dated. \u2014 David Bressan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"However, the tephra used in the tomb's mortar contained much more potassium-rich leucite. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The scientists discovered that the tomb's mortar was similar to that used in the walls of the Markets of Trajan: volcanic tephra from the pozzolane rosse pyroclastic flow, binding together large chunks of brick and lava aggregate. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Feb. 2022",
"However, the tephra used in the tomb's mortar contained much more potassium-rich leucite. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Feb. 2022",
"However, the tephra used in the tomb's mortar contained much more potassium-rich leucite. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 1 Jan. 2022"
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"New Latin, from Greek, ashes; akin to Sanskrit dahati it burns \u2014 more at foment":""
