Usurped as the world's largest by neighbouring Qatar, they remain incomparably the most expensive disco glitter balls ever made.

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Modern cars are "incomparably cleaner" than older ones, said Neil Donahue, a professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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Here are the pleasures any jazz lover would expect elegant scatting from Ella Fitzgerald, an incomparably rich Ellington ballad by Sarah Vaughan, and Jimmy Rushing shouting the blues.

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In some ways, of course, the contexts are incomparably different.

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But it's incomparably rewarding.

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