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"Reviewers raved about its ease of use and long wear time, with manicures lasting two weeks or more. \u2014 Jillian Ruffo, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 June 2022",
"During testing, this wallpaper earned perfect scores for its ease of re-application and removal by tacking onto the wall without bubbles and peeling away without residue. \u2014 Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 June 2022",
"Our lab analysts and experts tested 10 iced tea makers in the Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, evaluating each maker for its ease of use, performance and final results. \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
"Our testers loved this vacuum for its ease of use and effective cleaning abilities. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"In a heel turn, Diane leveraged her relationships with rich white clients\u2014and, implicitly, their greater ease with a white woman\u2014to preserve her position. \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute Lab tested over half a dozen GPS trackers and researched a dozen more based on their ease of use, accuracy, fit and extra features to find the best options for each family's needs. \u2014 Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022",
"Frances wants everything that Melissa has\u2014her man, her home, her writing career, her ease in the world\u2014and hates herself for wanting them. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 15 May 2022",
"Once the look of the pieces was finalized, their ease of wear was paramount. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Government action: The government hasn\u2019t taken any steps to ease skyrocketing prices. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Biden's proposal:Biden to propose three-month federal gas tax holiday to ease soaring prices at the pump What are gas taxes",
"Some politicians have floated the idea of a gas tax holiday to help ease prices at the pump. \u2014 Robert Rapier, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Earlier this year, at the end of March, the president authorized the release of one million barrels of oil a day from the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months, in an effort to ease high gas prices. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, CBS News , 20 June 2022",
"Ministers at the meeting will consider whether to lift or ease export restrictions on food to help countries facing a shortage of wheat, fertilizer and other products because of the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 12 June 2022",
"In April, Indonesia, the world\u2019s largest producer of palm oil, suspended exports of the crop to try to ease rising prices of cooking oil at home. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Hong Kong, too, has moved to ease restrictions, reopening the border to nonresidents, resuming in-person classes and allowing bars and other businesses to restart operations for the first time since January. \u2014 Anisha Kukreja, NBC News , 5 June 2022",
"Governments can do a few things to ease prices, including offer fuel subsidies and capping prices at the pump. \u2014 Anna Cooban, CNN , 3 June 2022"
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"With his mechanical tentacles, Doc Ock was easily one of the coolest villains Spider-Man ever took on. \u2014 Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
"Maybe that\u2019s the reason why Korg is easily the more popular one, as Miek doesn\u2019t exactly have a voice. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 June 2022",
"Their large but unremarkable house could easily be the home of a successful doctor rather than one of the richest men in the country. \u2014 Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica , 21 June 2022",
"Polls suggest that his party, Likud, will easily be the largest in the next parliament, but its allies may not have enough seats to let Netanyahu assemble a parliamentary majority. \u2014 Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"Polls suggest that his party, Likud, will easily be the largest in the next Parliament, but its allies may not have enough seats to let Mr. Netanyahu assemble a parliamentary majority. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
"And while the experience of being out on the water is easily the highlight of the trip, the experience is only enhanced by the food and wine that accompanies it. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 17 June 2022",
"Twin Peaks is easily one of the strangest crime shows to ever grace television, and the medium owes much of its current experimentation and weird plots (looking at you, Riverdale) to Twin Peaks. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
"Armas looks into the mirror and gives the kind of smile and laugh that could easily be mistaken for the real thing. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 16 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Plus, it's finished off with a 1-liter dust cup that's easy to empty without getting your hands dirty. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 2 July 2022",
"But Nguyen\u2019s most helpful analysis is easy to miss. \u2014 Andy Robertson, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Inequity in athletic departments, from elementary schools to universities, was fairly easy to sniff out, if not fix. \u2014 Amy Bass, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"That is easy to do when only one side gets to present evidence, call witnesses and disregard potentially exculpatory evidence. \u2014 WSJ , 1 July 2022",
"Accommodations during the hiring process, Gibson said, could be as easy as having a quieter space in a job fair to talk with candidates, or training hiring managers about unconscious bias that could affect their perception of disabled people. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
"On that page, the company says that the account deletion option should be easy to find in the app. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 1 July 2022",
"Both sizes boast a range of up to 35 feet, are easy to refill, and are durable enough to survive an entire summer of fun. \u2014 Zachary Mack, Popular Mechanics , 30 June 2022",
"Snowdrop bulbs are incredibly easy to grow and can bloom as early as January, per Binetti. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"For many people, that acknowledgement doesn\u2019t come easy . \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"While Nepal is known for its progressive stance on LGBTQ+ rights in Southeast Asia\u2014at least, compared to many of its neighboring countries\u2014those political freedoms didn\u2019t come easy , and Nepali activists note there is still a long way to go. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
"But nothing comes easy in Indianapolis, and on lap 194 Jimmie Johnson crashes, bringing out the caution flag and ultimately red-flagging the race as the safety team cleans the track before a final shootout. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"Udoka\u2019s journey to being one of the best young head coaches in the league didn\u2019t come easy , though. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 June 2022",
"The berth didn\u2019t come easy against a St. Xavier squad that had beaten Moeller twice during the regular season. \u2014 Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer , 29 May 2022",
"Getting this far didn\u2019t come easy and was a mixture of skill and luck. \u2014 al , 25 May 2022",
"Take it easy , and be proud of yourself for getting there. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Outside Online , 24 Jan. 2022",
"But nothing comes easy on the frontier: The two contend with Tallie\u2019s cruel, controlling husband, played by Christopher Abbott, and the harsh, though beautiful, landscape that surrounds them. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Dec. 2021"
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"just knew that if I hit the lottery, I'd be on easy street for the rest of my life",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The deadline to participate has been extended to June 3. Traversing the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic over the past year while staying in business hasn\u2019t always been easy street for most employers or employees. \u2014 Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"With a few fetching friends in tow, Hadid hunkers down on easy street in a graphic hoodie and pants, her Chanel bag transforming the otherwise casual set into an intentional, polished daytime look. \u2014 Rachel Besser, Vogue , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Lopez paired the bra with crisp white wide-legged pants that have a paper-bag waist, which gives the whole outfit a relaxed and easy street -style feel. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 19 Jan. 2022",
"But that doesn\u2019t mean the NFL has been easy street for Hentges. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 3 Mar. 2021",
"However, given his position\u2019s lack of job security, along with his zig-zagging career arc, Pepper knows better than to assume his rugged road has been replaced by easy street . \u2014 Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com , 9 Oct. 2020",
"The former Dallasite might appear to be living on easy street these days with his stack of glowing reviews and a famous surname that dates back to American folk hero Davy Crockett, a distant relative. \u2014 Dallas News , 6 Aug. 2020",
"As longtime fans are well aware, The Walking Dead has not been on easy street lately. \u2014 Laura Bradley, HWD , 29 May 2018",
"Life on the dole in Florida isn\u2019t easy street : Barkley\u2019s benefits come to $270 a week and max out at three months. \u2014 Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 Mar. 2018"
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"The easy virtue -signaling opportunities for politicians and boosters have mainly involved the pushing of renewables and electric vehicles, and the realm of CCSU/CDR is not nearly as amenable to warm and fuzzy visuals and messaging. \u2014 David Blackmon, Forbes , 25 June 2022"
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"Finding an easygoing dress to wear while working from home or on a brunch date can be tough. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 18 June 2022",
"On and off the court, Gustafson\u2019s easygoing personality has clicked well with her teammates. \u2014 Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic , 12 June 2022",
"The members of the team, which includes two rookies and three veterans this year, tend to have an easygoing personality and a good sense of humor. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Alva was an easygoing guy who liked nothing better than strumming his guitar by a campfire. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Dec. 2021",
"As a conversationalist, Fantano was easygoing , even a bit fawning. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Chihuahuas are labeled yappy and temperamental, whereas bulldogs are described as easygoing and sociable. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 28 Apr. 2022",
"But Jackson argues that beneath the seemingly easygoing and gregarious surface beats the heart of a fierce competitor. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In 2022, as office dress-codes become more and more relaxed, American men focus on an easygoing and carefree vibe. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022"
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"The car-sized Perseverance rover landed six months ago inside Jezero Crater, an ancient impact crater located just above the Martian equator in the planet's eastern hemisphere . \u2014 David Bressan, Forbes , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Their work suggests that the hilal should not have appeared in the eastern hemisphere until June 4th. \u2014 The Economist , 6 June 2019",
"The strategy serves as the latest sign the Administration wants to pivot from the morass of violence and counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East to intensify great power competitions in the western and eastern hemispheres . \u2014 W.j. Hennigan, Time , 19 Jan. 2018"
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"That investment is currently underwater, with Bitcoin trading around $30,030 as of 4:00pm eastern time . \u2014 John Hyatt, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"Valuations were calculated using close-of-market stock prices, and crypto asset prices as of noon eastern time on both days. \u2014 John Hyatt, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"As of around 12:30pm US eastern time today the Crystal Symphony was sailing off the northwest point of Puerto Rico, according to cruise tracking data. \u2014 Courtney Vinopal, Quartz , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Indiana was on the second night of a back-to-back after winning at San Antonio on Saturday night and lost two hours of recovery time due to switching from the central to eastern time zone and daylight savings. \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The data from Johns Hopkins University is complete as of midnight eastern time in Baltimore, and delays in reporting over the holidays may have played a role in the rising rates. \u2014 Fortune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Powerball will also be holding a special $1 million drawing just after midnight, eastern time , on Jan. 1. \u2014 Nadine El-bawab, ABC News , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The best time to catch the bright lights is predicted to be between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. eastern time on Saturday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA Today reports. \u2014 Lisa Kim, Forbes , 30 Oct. 2021",
"The opening ceremony takes place on Friday, July 23 at 7am US eastern time (8pm local time). \u2014 Annabelle Timsit, Quartz , 19 July 2021"
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"As the arms convoys head east toward the fighting, cars marked with the number 300\u2014code for wounded soldiers\u2014travel in the opposite direction. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"The parade will start at 9 a.m. at Village Hall, head east on Ellsworth Lane, south on Rexleigh Drive, north on King Road and end at Ellsworth Park. \u2014 Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"The parade will head east on Sixth Street and continue south on Monmouth Street before ending at the City of Newport Municipal Building. \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 25 May 2022",
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"The Hood County Emergency Management department said the city of Lipan, about 18 miles west of Granbury, was being evacuated and residents were urged to head east toward Granbury. \u2014 Aliyah Thomas, ABC News , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"The crash was reported at 12:25 p.m. near Glamis, an area about 150 miles east of San Diego known for its desert sand dunes and other off-road attractions, Naval Air Facility El Centro said. \u2014 Tim Stelloh, NBC News , 8 June 2022",
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"Workers are restoring a defunct Soviet power line connecting the western Ukrainian region of Khmelnytskyi\u2014home to a two-gigawatt nuclear plant\u2014to the east Polish city of Rzeszow. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
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"Police said Cunning, driving a Kia Forte, struck the victims around 4:30 a.m. on the east curbline of Rosecrans Street near Lytton Street, along the edge of the Loma Club golf course at Liberty Station. \u2014 City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Another use permit was granted for a project at 801 S.E. G St., on the east corner of Southeast Eighth and Southeast G streets. \u2014 Mike Jones, Arkansas Online , 23 June 2022",
"Muris Demirovic, 43, of Miami and his 70-year-old mother arrived at the east entrance at about 5:30 a.m. and were second in a line of dozens of cars. \u2014 Matthew Brown And Amy Beth Hanson, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
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"For the next several months \u2014 as nightmares played out in the Kyiv suburbs and Russian forces ultimately retreated and refocused their assault on the country\u2019s east \u2014 those photos sat tucked in a reporter\u2019s notebook. \u2014 Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Gordon had been charged with speeding, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in the March 10 stop while delivering food in Collegedale, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Chattanooga. \u2014 Jonathan Mattise, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"The sewage treatment plant covers a population close to 4 million in the north and east of the capital. \u2014 Adela Suliman, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Still, Zelensky and Kyiv\u2019s military officials say Moscow\u2019s military superiority is hard to match in what has become a sustained artillery battle in the east , where Putin\u2019s forces are backed by separatists. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"The restoration at Chenier Ronquille, a barrier island east of Grand Isle, was paid for by money from the 2010 BP oil spill. \u2014 Chron , 23 June 2022",
"Here\u2019s where to see those and other unique landmarks along the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin, starting at the western terminus and heading east . \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"The heat was so bad in one east Texas city that the infrastructure is melting \u2014 literally \u2014 under the pressure. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 23 June 2022",
"Russia appears to have dealt Ukraine a significant setback in the battle for the country\u2019s east , breaking through the defenses around a key city and opening the possibility that Kyiv\u2019s troops in the area could be surrounded. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 22 June 2022"
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"As Napeague filled out with homes and residents, so, too, did Truck Beach, which is what most locals started calling the stretch of sand that begins at Napeague Lane and extends eastward to the western boundary of Napeague State Park. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Salina Cruz eastward to Boca de Pijijiapan and Lagunas de Chacahua westward to Punta Maldonado. \u2014 Haley Brink, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"The record-setting heat wave in the Southwest is bulging eastward , and the edge of it will ooze into the Washington region starting today. \u2014 Jason Samenow, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The system will weaken and shift eastward , which will bring more moderate weather through today. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"As the storm front moved eastward , an apparent twister shredded a metal building and shattered windows east of Mobile Bay. \u2014 Gerald Herbert And Rebecca Santana, Chron , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Three other states along the Gulf Coast also were impacted as the line of severe weather moved eastward . \u2014 David Begnaud, CBS News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Parker Pearson thinks that the bluestones were first erected in Wales and then transported later to Salisbury Plain, when those who built it moved eastward . \u2014 Simon Akam, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The radio collar ultimately stopped providing a signal, but the cougar is presumed to have moved into Ontario eastward , then down into Connecticut, where it was hit by a car and killed \u2014 about 2,000 miles of travel from its original home. \u2014 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press , 31 Dec. 2021",
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"But everyone in the greater region from the Interstate 81 corridor eastward should monitor forecasts. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 July 2021",
"They are used in packing salt to the mills on the river, from the marshes lying in the deserts, some sixty miles to the eastward . \u2014 Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Of the more than 141,000 people who moved to Nevada in 2018, about 50,000 of them were from California, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, amplifying an eastward flow that goes back decades. \u2014 Jack Healy, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
"The system moving eastward has already hit parts of the Midwest, which saw heavy snow and limited visibility in places like Iowa, where about 50 cars were involved in a pileup Monday morning. \u2014 Amir Vera, CNN , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Mohapatra said that the smog could have travelled eastwards . \u2014 Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India , 19 Nov. 2019",
"As warm waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean shift eastward and trade winds weaken, the weather pattern ripples through the atmosphere, causing drought in southern Africa, wildfires in South America, and flooding on North America\u2019s Pacific coast. \u2014 Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS , 18 Sep. 2019",
"Though China's president is no fashion guru, his policies are defining a new eastward -looking luxury goods industry worldwide. \u2014 James B. Cutchin, latimes.com , 30 June 2019",
"The research suggests that the cavemen migrated eastwards from Europe to Siberia and indicated that their ancestors might be an as-yet-undiscovered group. \u2014 Fox News , 26 June 2019"
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"The south end of the property is granted easement to an electric cooperative. \u2014 Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press , 2 July 2022",
"The state would also grant Kohler an easement over an additional 1.8 acres of the park. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"In February, Plant told the Journal Sentinel that FPC Live expected to propose turning a private road east of the site into an easement at the Board of Harbor Commissioners meeting April 14. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The tribe owns the property where a public riverwalk would be built using an easement , and is working on a multiphase development that would include a separate cultural and community center of its own at the site. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 Apr. 2022",
"That included the city of Lakewood, which provided an easement onto Madison Park land solving one of the biggest issues with the library branch -- ingress and egress. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 25 Mar. 2022",
"An easement granted in the nineteen-fifties by Congress, the National Park Service, and Maryland landowners guarantees that the mansion\u2019s spectacular river view will remain unobstructed. \u2014 Jill Abramson, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"In collaboration with Councilmember Mitch O\u2019Farrell, an Indigenous cultural easement will also be created to give local tribal communities priority access to the park for the practice of traditional ceremonies. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Under Indiana code, county officials have to obtain authorization from the commission before performing any work within its exclusive easement , Pelath wrote. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022"
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"Brittany Watson, 30, of Bald Knob was driving the wrong way in the eastbound lanes near Bryant Parkway when the wreck happened shortly after 2:15 a.m., according to a preliminary report from Arkansas State Police. \u2014 Arkansas Democrat-gazette, Arkansas Online , 23 May 2022",
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"Crews will reconstruct the medians, repaint lines, build additional right turn lanes for traffic turning onto U.S. 31 and add a traffic signal to the I-465 eastbound exit ramp onto U.S. 31. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"The main factor distinguishing this wildfire season from Oregon\u2019s disastrous 2020 is the dry easterly wind that wreaked havoc last year. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Sep. 2021",
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"Tucked at the center of the exhibition are perhaps the most intimate and revealing images of Kahlo, showing her painting in bed with an inventive supine easel over her, her chin strapped to a contraption that helped elongate her spine. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
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