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Scady in mid 40s and trying to find how to survive in the 100 year life.

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Scady in mid 40s and trying to find how to survive in the 100 year life.

Day 1,956: unrepentant, despicable

If external constraints are looser, much more will depend on Mr Trump’s character. Given his unrepentant contempt for the constitution after losing the election in 2020, it is hard to be optimistic. The most senior Republican senator descr

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    • Day 1,955: muse, fealty, vet

      The president who mused about firing missiles at drug labs in Mexico was held back by the people and institutions around him. Since then the Republican Party has organised itself around fealty to Mr Trump. Friendly think-tanks have vetted l

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      • Day 1,954: procrastinator

        She is such a procrastinator that she will never finish her paper on time.

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        • Day 1,953: conflagration, glib, reassuring, contempt, scam, scrounge

          These conflagrations would test Mr Trump in a way that his first term did not. His glib promises to bring peace to Ukraine in a day, and his open-ended encouragement of Israel’s offensives, are not reassuring. Even worse is his contempt for

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          Day 1,952: chalk up to, unconventional, awkward, dire, vindicate

          Trump’s supporters chalk that up to his unpredictability and willingness to take strong and unconventional action, a combination that can indeed keep awkward countries in line. When the foreign-policy elite warned of dire consequences after

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          Day 1,952: chalk up to, unconventional, awkward, dire, vindicate

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          Day 1,951: blithe, indifference

          He would extend tax cuts even though the budget deficit is at a level usually seen only during war or recession, suggesting a blithe indifference to sound fiscal management.

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          Day 1,951: blithe, indifference

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          Day 1,950: rein in, toady, chancer

          And that is because Mr Trump’s policies are worse, the world is more perilous and many of the sober, responsible people who reined in his worst instincts during his first term have been replaced by true believers, toadies and chancers. Quo

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          Day 1,950: rein in, toady, chancer

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          Day 1,949: delude, prod, abominably, foment

          But we believe voters who minimise it are deluding themselves. He prodded some of America’s allies to increase their defence spending. Even when Mr Trump behaved abominably by fomenting an attack on the Capitol to try to stop the transfer

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          Day 1,949: delude, prod, abominably, foment

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          Day 1,948: coolly, opt, hard-headed, tail risk

          Yet some will coolly opt to vote Trump as a calculated risk. But voters claiming to be hard-headed are overlooking the tail risk of a Trump presidency.

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          Day 1,948: coolly, opt, hard-headed, tail risk

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          Day 1,947: succumb, gratification, intrusive, craving

          In a world of abundance people succumb to their impulses even if they know their behaviour is harmful in the long term. Although glp-1 agonists may limit the pleasure of instant gratification, they promise to end intrusive cravings and impr

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          Day 1,947: succumb, gratification, intrusive, craving

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          Day 1,946: perverse

          If the drugs live up to their early promise, it would be perverse and cruel to deprive patients of medicines that could dramatically improve their lives.

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          Day 1,946: perverse

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          Day 1,945: nausea, pancreatitis, diarrhoea, medicalisation, binge

          Their immediate side-effects, which can include nausea, pancreatitis, diarrhoea and muscle loss, may be off-putting; the effects from decades of taking them are uncertain. Some worry about the medicalisation of everyday life, and whether pe

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          Day 1,945: nausea, pancreatitis, diarrhoea, medicalisation, binge

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          Day 1,944: hushed, bind to, inflammation, craving

          Researchers are even talking, in hushed tones, of their anti-ageing effects. As our briefing explains this week, not only do the drugs act in the gut, but they also bind to receptors all over the body and in the brain. The drugs appear to

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          Day 1,944: hushed, bind to, inflammation, craving

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          Day 1,943: capricious

          One cannot trust his judgment: he is too capricious.

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          Day 1,943: capricious

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          Day 1,942: sedentary, apnoea

          As incomes in the developing world have risen and life has become more sedentary, people’s waistlines are catching up with those in the West. Tirzepatide improves sleep apnoea. Quote of the day “Pr

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          Day 1,942: sedentary, apnoea

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          Day 1,941: tirzepatide, voracious

          Novo Nordisk, maker of semaglutide, branded Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss, and Eli Lilly, which makes tirzepatide, a more effective alternative, have together added around $1trn in market value since 2021. With over two-f

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          Day 1,941: tirzepatide, voracious

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