To experts tracking a decline in amphibians with growing alarm, it's like a symphony in which some of the players haven't been showing up.

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An electronic circuit is like a symphony played by an orchestra.

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It's like a symphony, of sorts.

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"It's a strange piece because it's like three-fourths of a symphony, " Chihara says.

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Asking a developer to create a stellar piece of software that runs through the Web is somewhat like asking a composer to write a symphony on a smartphone.

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She has friends who invite her to the symphony, or events like a networking luncheon on a rooftop terrace.

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In fact, the resulting tube-like structure was but the overture to a major symphony of cat-related outdoor enclosures, a veritable pet Disneyland, if you will.

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"While he was waiting in line, he saw a piano and was playing classical music like it was Symphony Hall, " McCarthy said.

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Tackling Mahler's Fifth Symphony requires an expert team, and working with the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra on such a monumental piece is like a dream come true.

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And yet the Sixth Symphony does not aspire to the level of musical realism found in a work like Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique or in Richard Strauss's later tone poems.

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Unlike opera and symphony performances, potentially infinite in number, a movie is single, immutable, like sculpture.

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