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Scady in mid 40s and trying to find how to …

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Scady in mid 40s and trying to find how to survive in the 100 year life.

Day 1,765: binge, promiscuity

They are a serious bunch, less given to late nights, binge drinking and promiscuity than their elders were.

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    • Day 1,764: mettle

      He was a man of fine mettle during the entire war.

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      • Day 1,763: precarious, qualm, back foot, perk

        Many millennials came of age in the shadow of the global financial crisis; they felt so precarious that they were afraid to ask for pay rises. Gen Z seems to have fewer qualms about quitting for a better opportunity, or taking things slowly

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        • Day 1,762: fret, formative, doomscrolling, epidemic

          Social scientists fret that Gen Z-ers, having spent their formative years doomscrolling and suffering from fomo, are now gripped by an epidemic of anxiety and depression.

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        Day 1,765: binge, promiscuity

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          Day 1,761: underpinning, subside, inducement, retrofit

          Should homeowners who had no idea they were at risk have to pay for, say, concrete underpinning for a subsiding house? Owners will need inducements to spend big sums retrofitting their homes to pollute less, which benefits everyone.

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          Day 1,761: underpinning, subside, inducement, retrofit

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          Day 1,760: forestall, dyke

          Physical damage might be forestalled by investing in protection in properties themselves or in infrastructure. In the Netherlands a system of dykes, ditches and pumps keeps the country dry;

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          Day 1,760: forestall, dyke

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          Day 1,759: bail out, well-heeled, blunt, Apportion

          Yet if taxpayers cough up instead, they will bail out well-heeled owners and blunt helpful incentives to adapt to the looming threat. Apportioning the costs will be hard for governments, not least because they know voters care so much about

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          Day 1,759: bail out, well-heeled, blunt, Apportion

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          Day 1,758: batter

          From tornadoes battering midwestern American suburbs to tennis-ball-size hailstones smashing the roofs of Italian villas, the severe weather brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions is shaking the foundations of the world’s most important

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          Day 1,758: batter

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          Day 1,757: discontented, bellicose

          If China was stagnating and discontented, it could be even more bellicose than if it were thriving.

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          Day 1,757: discontented, bellicose

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          Day 1,756: ratchet

          If so, that could ratchet geopolitical tensions even higher.

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          Day 1,756: ratchet

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          Day 1,754: dynamo, unshackle

          The last flaw is Mr Xi’s unrealistic view of entrepreneurs, the dynamos of the past 30 years. Unless entrepreneurs are unshackled, innovation will suffer and resources will be wasted.

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          Day 1,754: dynamo, unshackle

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          Day 1,753: lugubrious

          The lugubrious expression on his face aroused our sympathy.

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          Day 1,753: lugubrious

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          Day 1,752: detest, pamper

          He detests the idea of bailing out speculative property firms or giving handouts to citizens. Young people should be less pampered and willing to “eat bitterness”, he said last year.

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          Day 1,752: detest, pamper

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          Day 1,751: dwarf

          Although their spending dwarfs property and the new productive forces, it accounts for just 37% of gdp, much lower than global norms.

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          Day 1,751: dwarf

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          Day 1,750: leapfrog, altitude

          China will leapfrog steel and skyscrapers to a golden era of mass production of electric cars, batteries, biomanufacturing and the drone-based “low-altitude economy”.

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          Day 1,750: leapfrog, altitude

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          Day 1,749: eschew, ruse

          This eschews the conventional path of a big consumer stimulus to reflate the economy (that’s the kind of ruse the decadent West resorts to).

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          Day 1,749: eschew, ruse

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