rarefied

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• The school eventually began admitting women, but maintained its status as a rarefied institution where school breaks are spent on week-long camping trips and all students are given a horse to care for in their first year.

• In those years and across those miles, the ship will be looking for other Kuiper Belt objects in its path that may warrant a visit, and will be studying the space environment as it sails on to more and more rarefied distances.

• Small-batch artisan vegan cheese, the kind that oozes, stinks, and blooms as convincingly as its dairy counterparts, constitutes the highest and most rarefied tier of vegan cheese.

• Now, with two recent papers, Michael Filaseta of the University of South Carolina has carried the idea further, coming up with an even more rarefied class of digitally delicate prime numbers.

• Kennedy’s commitment to people forgotten in the rarefied halls of the Capitol shaped decades of seminal legislation, ranging from the Americans With Disabilities Act to the Family and Medical Leave Act to the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act.

• These subtleties are easily missed from the national perspective and, apparently, inside the rarefied air of the NRCC.

• St. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.

• They know how to talk mathematics of a very rarefied kind that most of us find quite impossible to understand.

• She is not some rarefied doyenne whose choices carry moral clout.

• With that single gesture, he put a human face on this brand, one that last year boasted €826 million in revenue.