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INNOCUOUS
- Producing no injury; not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility.
- Usage: Reports of comments by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on recent test-firing of an antiship missile by North Korea on the eve of the inauguration of South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-Hyun.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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LO AND BEHOLD
- A phrase used to express wonder or surprise.
- Usage: Coverage of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's daily press briefing with reporters.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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UIGHURS
- A Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China, mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group, together with Chinese Han people.
- Usage: Story on rescue efforts following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Kashgar, China, in the Xinjiang region near China's mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan.
Source: Wikipedia.org.
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