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Logan


Definition:

  • (n.) A rocking or balanced stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Logan says "A Band of Brothers has changed my life."
  • (2) Government officials meeting and discussing policy with private interests in secret, or representatives of other governments, is a violation of the Logan Act," he said, referring to a federal law first passed in 1799 that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
  • (3) They did also acquire Fernando Rodney to close and solidify the bullpen , and bring in Logan Morrison from Miami to possibly DH and Corey Hart to play the outfield - so they’ll score more runs than the previous season, which would mark an improvement in run scoring for a sixth consecutive year, and that is progress I suppose.
  • (4) The other otters have not changed their behavior following Logan’s death, the zoo said.
  • (5) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.
  • (6) An “unauthorized” pair of pants in an otter enclosure at the Calgary zoo has brought disciplinary action onto two employees, who were blamed for the death of a 12-year-old otter called Logan.
  • (7) The development of the Fort Logan Mental Health Center, which opened in Denver in 1961, was strongly influenced by recommendations of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health.
  • (8) July 30, 1999 Patrick Logan shot by hooded intruder at his home in Withington July 31, 1999 Martin Bennett, 25, shot in Moss Side August 3, 1999 Dorrie McKie , 20, shot in Moss Side August 15, 1999 Anthony Cook, 24, shot after chase through Moss Side November 1, 1999 Courier Judah Dewar, 35, killed in Longsight December 27, 1999 Simon Brown, 27, shot in Cheetham Hill January 5, 2000 Roger Ormsby, 35, shot in Whalley Range January 12, 2000 Gabriel Egharevba, 17, shot from his bike in Longsight
  • (9) Gabby Logan will provide news from the England camp and also report from pitch-side during matches.
  • (10) Logan was rescued from the water and taken to the Causeway hospital by helicopter but was pronounced dead.
  • (11) The gene product of flaB, which has an Mr of 58,946, has 93% sequence homology to the gene product of flaA, which has an Mr of 58,916 (S. M. Logan, T. J.
  • (12) The image was tweeted by the national communications manager of DIAC, Sandi Logan, accompanied by the phrase "the rules have now changed".
  • (13) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Left guard Logan Mankins is now heading back to the locker room with the Patriots' medical staff.
  • (14) 'It's a bit like a cross between The Stepford Wives and Logan's Run: lots of happy people in shorts always smiling, and nobody over 40.
  • (15) Richards’s association with City goes back to the age of 14, when he arrived for a trial from Oldham Athletic and remembers being blown away by Shaleum Logan “playing up front, dribbling around everyone, and I was thinking: ’Oh my God, he’s unbelievable.’ I wasn’t used to the pace of the game.
  • (16) Logan's report hinged on the eyewitness testimony of a former British soldier, Dylan Davies, who was working as a security contractor in Benghazi at the time.
  • (17) Three conditions of image processing were tested using the phantom, and found out a backprojection method with using a Shepp-Logan filter and a pre-reconstruction smoothing of 3 X 3 pixels to be suited.
  • (18) Alan Shearer, Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Thierry Henry, Gabby Logan, Alan Hansen.
  • (19) At the height of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak, Lara Logan, a correspondent for the US network CBS, was sexually assaulted and beaten in Tahrir Square.
  • (20) At first, CBS and Logan stood by their report, saying they had always been aware of the Blue Mountain account, claiming that Davies never signed it, and said it was not given by him.

Longan


Definition:

  • (n.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The absolute stereochemistry of 5 was determined by its chiral synthesis from L-allylglycine, proving that 5 is the C-4 epimer of the amino acid previously isolated from dried longan seeds.
  • (2) The commodities include mushrooms, tomatoes, pineapples, lychees, longans, rambutans, mangostenes, guavas, sapotas, loquats, ber, soursops, passion fruits, persimmons, figs, melons, cucumbers, aubergines, globe artichokes, endives, lettuce, ginger, carrots, beet roots, turnips, olives, dates, chestnuts, almonds, pistachios, and other dried fruits and nuts.

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