His servants, seeing his glassy eyes and sweaty forehead, might have gossiped that a witch had hexed him, but the doctor would not have entertained that idea for a moment.

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Yet others cautioned attendees not to limit how they creatively leverage their degree to find a career path they may not have previously entertained.

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Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.

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In fact, we're not even to be 'entertained'.

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It's not surprising, given that I had entertained the same thought myself.

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And developers often focus on utility too much, not realizing that most of us want to be entertained more than anything else.

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The singer, from Neath, who entertained the 160 soldiers with a rendition of Silent Night, said she was "gutted" she could not get to Afghanistan.

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