This hierarchy has multiple interconnections among levels that enable us to sort things in space and time and associate them with previously encountered things, be they faces, phone numbers or typing skills--whatever our memory holds.

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He said the Latham 47 had not been built to cope with the rough conditions which can be encountered in the Barents Sea and could have been overcome by waves.

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The cap will be lowered in slowly to ensure that the hydrates problem that we encountered with previous attempts you minimize.

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Asians, on average, tend to be smaller with shorter extremities and long torsos evolutionary adaptations to harsh climes encountered by Homo sapiens who migrated to Northeast Asia 40, 000 years ago.

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In practice, this game of topping up the carbon content to make a better fuel stops with octanol (eight carbon atoms) as anything bigger tends to freeze at temperatures that might be encountered in winter.

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