But she later stumbled while attempting to spell "melocoton, " a word meaning a peach grafted on a quince root stalk.

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If OJ made one thing perfectly clear, it's that the word "reason, " at the root of "reasonable doubt" has lost all meaning in the US court system.

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So Nardelli "tagged" the Wrangler--meaning engineers had only seven days to identify the root cause and solution.

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For most people we know, meaning starts with making instead of taking, and at its root has some social value to others.

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