After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw.

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Boasberg ruled in Loving that the IRS did not have the right to regulate preparers under the current scheme, I was a bit taken aback.

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"It came to me in that moment then to ask them whether we could donate Imogen's organs and I think they were a bit taken aback, " she said.

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But in spite of Arduino's near ubiquity these days, we'll admit that we were a bit taken aback when the familiar blue microcontroller made an appearance on a lab desk during our conversation with NASA "lighting guy, " Dr. Eirik Holbert.

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Apple watchers were a bit taken aback by the news yesterday that Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will be joining the company as a vice president of technology, with some Apple fanboys saying they are surprised by the choice and pointing out that Lynch has been a vocal critic of the company in the past.

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