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In the haze, the horizons of distant peaks braided together. The nature writer Robert MacFarlane observes, in his book “Landmarks,” that a Scottish painter once described this phenomenon to him as landskein. “Skein” can mean either a coil of yarn or a flock of birds flying in a V formation. Landskein, a neologism, uses both, knitting the V’s of mountaintops together. Each time I saw the jagged, braided horizon, I thought about how happy I was to know the word.
The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere
newyorker.com
Visual Basic doesn't include a Bold statement and function. Instead, there's a property named Bold . (A property is usually an attribute of an object, such as its size, its color, or whether or not it's bold.) Bold is a property of the Font object. Likewise, Font is a property of the Selection object that returns a Font object.
Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic
docs.microsoft.com
While news articles could on some occasions be a means to impact and empower news readers, they needed to work more consistently __as a means of advancing these extrajournalistic agendas.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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