Deck no. 24 Flashcards

Question

asekurować się; zabezpieczać się na dwie strony

Answer 1

to hedge one's bets Some engagers now maintain that the United States **hedged its bets**, pursuing containment side by side with engagement in case a friendship with China did not flourish.

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fleece Paris is cloudy today, low sixties, and he’s got the cap and a black zippered **fleece**.

Answer 3

de-risk But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to **de-risk** the financially perilous business of moviemaking.

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zapał, entuzjazm Most have new ranks of hungry executives but even the veter ans still have **fire in the belly**. Michael Dell has remained at the wheel of the firm he founded in 1984, except for a hiatus in 2004-07. Asked about his future, he replies: “I love what we do: It’s fun, it’s interesting, it’s exciting. I have no plans to change my involvement.”

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to solicit They became sufficiently close that Staley visited Epstein while he was serving a prison sentence in Florida in 2009 for procuring a child for prostitution and **soliciting** a prostitute.

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misguided Beguiled by **misguided** theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.

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ręczyć (za coś), gwarantować (wsparcie finansowe) We are watching the government literally **underwrite** a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.

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zamienny The artist known as Beeple, who launched the global craze for **non-fungible** art tokens, was able to watch Christie’s auction off his first real-life sculpture, “HUMAN ONE.” It sold for $29 million, over its $15 million estimate.

Answer 9

odwzorować In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the **mapping** of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.

Answer 10

szefostwo Its latest poll, released in October, found that executives are far keener to get back to the office than other employees. Of those **higher-ups** who were working remotely, 75% wanted to be in the office three days a week or more; only 34% of non-executives felt the same way.

Answer 11

pewnik Despite all this activity, it is not a **given** that the enterprise meta verse will take off as fast as its champions expect, if ever.

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to turn heads Smaller rivals with ambitious growth plans have found they can **turn the heads** of Big Four partners who feel underpaid, unloved or constrained from winning clients because of conflicts with the firms’ audit practices.

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fleeting A blockbuster, which today might cost $200m to shoot plus the same in marketing, has one **fleeting** chance to break even at the box office. The gamble is less risky if a star guarantees an audience.

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to pop up Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are **popping up** all over.

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sleaze In Ashfield, the Tories’ main political opposition believes **sleaze** will help their cause. Jason Zadrozny, who leads the Ashfield Independents party and the district council, said the allegations were “washing over people at the moment” but warned they corroded politics generally. “It just makes parliament seem more remote,” he said.

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to brandish In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, **brandishing** placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.

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latent Given its market reforms and **latent** power potential, China would still have risen despite these policies.

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brzękać He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and **clinking** glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

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railing He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass **railings** and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

Answer 20

a bolt out of the blue “China is not developing its nuclear forces for some **bolt out of the blue** attack on America,” says Caitlin Talmadge, a nuclear expert at Georgetown University. “It’s trying to lock the US and China into a deeper ‘mutual vulnerability’ stalemate, so that the US cannot play the nuclear card in a conventional war, for example over Taiwan.”

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sizzling The art market is **sizzling**. The world’s chief auction houses sold more than $2.3 billion worth of art during a two-week sale series in New York that ended Friday.

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nieszkodliwy Kathleen Harris, a lawyer for Staley, said: “We wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Epstein, and code words were never used by Mr Staley in any communications with Mr Epstein, ever.” She said all the emails were **innocuous**.

Answer 23

ukryty Given its market reforms and **latent** power potential, China would still have risen despite these policies.

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to lead the way Clinton **led the way** in convincing Congress to grant China permanent most-favored-nation status, which laid the groundwork for its entry into the WTO.

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wymachiwać In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, **brandishing** placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.

Answer 26

obracać się przeciw komuś, odnosić odwrotny skutek So far the strategy has largely **backfired**. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.

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leading light **Leading lights** in the media also embraced engagement, including the editorial boards of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Answer 28

wystawiać (np. drużynę, zespół) If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may **field** their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.

Answer 29

aficionado As **aficionados** developed new digital coins, Binance had more trading offerings than many other exchanges. They included fan tokens for European soccer clubs as well as dogecoin, a spoof currency that took off early this year.

Answer 30

grać ostro, grać nie fair If the United States had **played hardball** on trade and investment, China would surely have turned to other countries for help.

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on point “It’s weird going back through these,” he says, lost in the text messages the way you get when you scroll back in time. “This is very **on-point** for Resurrections.”

Answer 32

całkowity, ogólny And then there is the question of how the **overall** metaverse economy will function. Since most business activity will be digitally replicated, economists may ha ve unprecedented insight into what is going on.

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sharpie Foley is a **sharpie** and ladies’ man who likes to play cards and tells stories.

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szczyt osiągnięć *high water = przypływ* Barrow Island, off the coast of Western Australia, is an unlikely place to find what will with luck become the **high-water mark** of the hubris of the West’s international oil companies.

Answer 35

kurtka polarowa Paris is cloudy today, low sixties, and he’s got the cap and a black zippered **fleece**.

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sure enough **Sure enough**, the paper shows that demand for these skills goes up in larger and more information intensive firms. Social skills matter more when bosses need to persuade as much as instruct.

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maître d' [meiter di] He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the **maître d’**. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

Answer 38

prosperujące przedsiębiorstwo *a business whose operations are not threatened or in danger of liquidation within at least a 12 month period* This summer, less than a year after going public, Lordstown alerted investors that there was “substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a **going concern**.” It has since received a capital infusion by selling its factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to Foxconn for $230 million.

Answer 39

wspólnota, organizacja (ludzie dzielący te same wyznania, wartości) George W. Bush also embraced efforts to bring China into the global economic **fold**, promising as a presidential candidate that “trade with China will promote freedom.”

Answer 40

high estimate *high estimate means an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the high estimate* Younger, trendy artists also saw price jumps, including Lisa Brice’s $3.2 million “No Bare Back, after Embah,” which drew nine bidders and sold for more than 10 times its **high estimate** at Sotheby’s on Thursday.

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bardzo drogi, bardzo kosztowny Without Deloitte and KPMG’s global networks, rivals say the newly independent businesses at Interpath and Teneo might struggle to win **big-ticket** international roles.

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twarde stanowisko (np. wobec jakiegoś problemu) Not only did the United States produce the bulk of the world’s most sophisticated technologies, but it also had several levers—including sanctions and security guarantees—that it could have used to persuade other countries to take a **harder line** on China.

Answer 43

wzrost; powiększenie In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or **augmentation** of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

Answer 44

pójść; pojawić się gdzieś It’s called Le Grand Colbert, and he was last here for one very long night with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, filming the end of the 2003 movie Something’s Gotta Give. He hasn’t **set foot** in the place since.

Answer 45

verity In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic **verities**—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

Answer 46

poważny; szczery; sumienny Some are stone-faced and **earnest** to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.

Answer 47

doomed Why are great powers **doomed** to compete? For starters, there is no higher authority to adjudicate disputes among states or protect them when threatened.

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knit He was wearing a surgical mask, a black **knit** cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

Answer 49

shenanigans He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie **shenanigans**!”

Answer 50

to scour If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in **scouring** the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.

Answer 51

at the very least In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, **at the very least**, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

Answer 52

workaround James Mulvenon, a PLA expert at Sosi, a defence contractor, says a Chinese general once told US experts that China could not abandon “no first use” for reputational reasons but would find “operational **workarounds**”.

Answer 53

klient For streamers, a show’s value is harder to calculate, lying in its ability to recruit and retain subscribers rather than draw **punters** to the box office.

Answer 54

to lose track of No, it takes Keanu a second because he’s been in Paris for two days—no, wait it’s . . . yeah, this is the third day—and in Berlin for six months before that, filming nights and sleeping until midafternoon (he calls them vampire hours), and he’s just packed and unpacked without a stop at home, and, well, you sometimes **lose track**.

Answer 55

momentous It was a **momentous** choice. Three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and the United States had won. It was now the sole great power on the planet.

Answer 56

fungible The artist known as Beeple, who launched the global craze for **non-fungible** art tokens, was able to watch Christie’s auction off his first real-life sculpture, “HUMAN ONE.” It sold for $29 million, over its $15 million estimate.

Answer 57

przypadkowy War has always been uncertain and **contingent**. But it has also been guided by one logic, as well as one set of limitations: that of humans.

Answer 58

ślizgać się On July 27, China became the first nation to fly a hypersonic **glide** vehicle — a manoeuvrable craft that travels at more than five times the speed of sound — around the Earth.

Answer 59

upalny; namiętny, ze śmiałymi scenami erotycznymi; skwierczący (np. tłuszcz na patelni) The art market is **sizzling**. The world’s chief auction houses sold more than $2.3 billion worth of art during a two-week sale series in New York that ended Friday.

Answer 60

flick As cinemas closed, studios scrambled to find screens for their movies . Some, like MGM’s latest James Bond **flick**, were delayed by more than a year. Others were sent to streaming platforms—sometimes without the agreement of actors or directors.

Answer 61

back-catalogue Netflix’s biggest acquisition is the **back-catalogue** of Roald Dahl, a children’s author, which it bought in September for around $700m.

Answer 62

*used by sports journalists to refer to a football player who publicly says that they want to leave their current club* A Big Four firm with unsettled partners faces a choice similar to a football club negotiating with a “**wantaway**” player: arrange a quick sale to raise cash and reshape itself, or stand firm and run the risk that its team disintegrates anyway with no financial windfall.

Answer 63

to clink He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and **clinking** glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

Answer 64

zależeć od czegoś Disney, which dominates the box office, relies on franchises such as Marvel, whose success does not **turn on** which actors are squeezed into the spandex leotards. Amazon’s priciest project so far is a $465m “Lord of the Rings” spin-off with no megastar attached.

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the die is cast He says, however, that **the die has now been cast**. After the way Russia has behaved in Ukraine, “now I consider, one way or the other, formally or not, Ukraine has to be treated in the aftermath of this as a member of NATO.”

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nieugięty Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming **implacable**—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.

Answer 67

przeszukiwać If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in **scouring** the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.

Answer 68

to map In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the **mapping** of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.

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to chase after Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors **chased after** high-end art with a voraciousness not seen since a few years before the pandemic.

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kibicować Then there are the characters themselves. With the notable exception of Father Vincent, it’s hard to **root for** any of them.

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fold George W. Bush also embraced efforts to bring China into the global economic **fold**, promising as a presidential candidate that “trade with China will promote freedom.”

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kolejny (nie różniący się wiele od poprzedników) The Obama administration was **more of the same**. “Since I’ve been president, my goal has been to consistently engage with China in a way that is constructive, to manage our differences and to maximize opportunities for cooperation,” Barack Obama said in 2015.

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doniosły, ważny, wielkiej wagi It was a **momentous** choice. Three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and the United States had won. It was now the sole great power on the planet.

Answer 74

niemoralność; brak kręgosłupa moralnego In Ashfield, the Tories’ main political opposition believes **sleaze** will help their cause. Jason Zadrozny, who leads the Ashfield Independents party and the district council, said the allegations were “washing over people at the moment” but warned they corroded politics generally. “It just makes parliament seem more remote,” he said.

Answer 75

to gush The streaming revolution has sent money **gushing** into Hollywood as studios vie to attract subscribers.

Answer 76

moniker “Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of **moniker** would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.

Answer 77

rozcięcie, rana He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a **gash** that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”

Answer 78

wypad; szybki atak na pozycje wroga; próba (np. wejście z nowym produktem na rynek) By far the most dangerous hotspot is Taiwan, as China flies record **sorties** of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, testing the country’s defences and trying to intimidate the government in Taipei.

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zachłanny; chętny Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a **voraciousness** not seen since a few years before the pandemic.

Answer 80

to call time on something It is not yet time to **call time on** old fashioned narcissism.

Answer 81

downward spiral Engagement’s remaining defenders now portray the **downward spiral** in U.S.-Chinese relations as the work of individuals who are bent on creating a U.S.-Soviet-style confrontation—“New Cold Warriors,” in the words of the former George W. Bush administration official Robert Zoellick.

Answer 82

być odstawionym na boczny tor, być odłożonym na później So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the **back burner**, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.

Answer 83

burnish A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-**burnishing** sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.

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voracious Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a **voraciousness** not seen since a few years before the pandemic.

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big-ticket Without Deloitte and KPMG’s global networks, rivals say the newly independent businesses at Interpath and Teneo might struggle to win **big-ticket** international roles.

Answer 86

wielbiciel As **aficionados** developed new digital coins, Binance had more trading offerings than many other exchanges. They included fan tokens for European soccer clubs as well as dogecoin, a spoof currency that took off early this year.

Answer 87

bogactwo, majątek Private equity funds and independents are tempting partners with promises of fewer turf wars, quicker decisions and investment in neglected areas — but the chance of greater **riches** also helps.

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implacable Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming **implacable**—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.

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szuler, kanciarz Foley is a **sharpie** and ladies’ man who likes to play cards and tells stories.

Answer 90

kompromitacja They urged the board to review the new information and check if the CEO had played down his links with the **disgraced** financier.

Answer 91

to clear Create a hit show that ran for six or seven seasons and you might earn $100m on the back-end; make a phenomenon like “Seinfeld” and you could **clear** $1bn.

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*informal: a very famous film star, musician etc – used especially in newspapers and magazines* But their unwillingness to venerate **A-listers** also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.

Answer 93

oburzać się And when WarnerMedia decided to release “Dune” on its streaming service on the same day it hit cinemas on October 21st, the movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve, **huffed** magnificently that “to watch ‘Dune’ on a television is to drive a speedboat in your bathtub.”

Answer 94

rewarding A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively **rewarding**.

Answer 95

szalony A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the **frantic** pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.

Answer 96

będący w stanie wojny, walczący, strona wojująca In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its **belligerents**; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

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balanga Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, earlier this month put it at the centre of its annual customer **shindig**, as did Nvidia, a big maker of graphics processors, on November 9th.

Answer 98

higher-up Its latest poll, released in October, found that executives are far keener to get back to the office than other employees. Of those **higher-ups** who were working remotely, 75% wanted to be in the office three days a week or more; only 34% of non-executives felt the same way.

Answer 99

co by się nie działo; niech się dzieje co chce We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers **come what may**. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.

Answer 100

wychodzenie z użycia, starzenie się Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the **obsolescence** of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.

Answer 101

to dissuade “The Bush and Obama administrations claimed that if we kept a nuclear weapons stockpile three or four times bigger than China, Beijing would be **dissuaded** from trying to match the US,” he says. “How’s that working out?”

Answer 102

overall And then there is the question of how the **overall** metaverse economy will function. Since most business activity will be digitally replicated, economists may ha ve unprecedented insight into what is going on.

Answer 103

poręcz; ogrodzenie He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass **railings** and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

Answer 104

suknia One new virtual world deserves real attention: the “enterprise metaverse”. Forget rock stars and fancy **frocks**, this is essentially a digital carbon copy of the physical economy.

Answer 105

wantaway A Big Four firm with unsettled partners faces a choice similar to a football club negotiating with a “**wantaway**” player: arrange a quick sale to raise cash and reshape itself, or stand firm and run the risk that its team disintegrates anyway with no financial windfall.

Answer 106

estate Vincent Van Gogh had a huge week at Christie’s, with four works from the **estate** of Texas oilman Edwin Cox selling for $161 million combined.

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A-lister But their unwillingness to venerate **A-listers** also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.

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way around something To the contrary, Chinese leaders view liberal values as a threat to their country’s stability, and as rulers of rising powers normally do, they are pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. There is no **way around** it: engagement was a colossal strategic mistake.

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ostry atak, ostra krytyka Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy **broadside** against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.

Answer 110

wzgórek, kopiec It is a nature reserve dotted with termite **mounds**. Since it was severed from the mainland about 8,000 years ago, its local species, including golden bandicoots and spectacled hare-wallabies, have lived free from predators.

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belligerent In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its **belligerents**; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

Answer 112

to huff And when WarnerMedia decided to release “Dune” on its streaming service on the same day it hit cinemas on October 21st, the movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve, **huffed** magnificently that “to watch ‘Dune’ on a television is to drive a speedboat in your bathtub.”

Answer 113

to venerate But their unwillingness to **venerate** A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.

Answer 114

majątek; spadek; posiadłość; osiedle Vincent Van Gogh had a huge week at Christie’s, with four works from the **estate** of Texas oilman Edwin Cox selling for $161 million combined.

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obsolescence Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the **obsolescence** of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.

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come what may We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers **come what may**. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.

Answer 117

punter For streamers, a show’s value is harder to calculate, lying in its ability to recruit and retain subscribers rather than draw **punters** to the box office.

Answer 118

doszczętnie zniszczyć, trawić (o ogniu, pożarze) “A bigger, more accurate and diverse Chinese arsenal kept on higher alert would be consistent with a retaliatory only strategy, but it also gives China options to use nuclear weapons first that it has not previously had,” she says, adding that this and dismal US-China ties mean “China’s nuclear modernisation has **gutted** US confidence in Beijing’s nuclear restraint.”

Answer 119

rekwizyt In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest **propmakers**.

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contingent War has always been uncertain and **contingent**. But it has also been guided by one logic, as well as one set of limitations: that of humans.

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ciągły i coraz szybszy spadek Engagement’s remaining defenders now portray the **downward spiral** in U.S.-Chinese relations as the work of individuals who are bent on creating a U.S.-Soviet-style confrontation—“New Cold Warriors,” in the words of the former George W. Bush administration official Robert Zoellick.

Answer 122

gash He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a **gash** that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”

Answer 123

jak można się było spodziewać **Sure enough**, the paper shows that demand for these skills goes up in larger and more information intensive firms. Social skills matter more when bosses need to persuade as much as instruct.

Answer 124

wszędzie Users popped up from **all over**, including countries with less-developed financial systems such as South Africa, Russia and India. Binance became the largest crypto exchange within six months, and just as quickly ran into problems with authorities.

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to field If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may **field** their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.

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going concern *a business whose operations are not threatened or in danger of liquidation within at least a 12 month period* This summer, less than a year after going public, Lordstown alerted investors that there was “substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a **going concern**.” It has since received a capital infusion by selling its factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to Foxconn for $230 million.

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działać na najwyższych obrotach The Art Market **in Overdrive**. Auction houses set sales records, as did prices for artists such as Frida Kahlo, as part of a two-week, $2.3 billion frenzy of buying and selling.

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to be on the back burner So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the **back burner**, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.

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to turn on something Disney, which dominates the box office, relies on franchises such as Marvel, whose success does not **turn on** which actors are squeezed into the spandex leotards. Amazon’s priciest project so far is a $465m “Lord of the Rings” spin-off with no megastar attached.

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wczesne nagranie (np. jakiegoś artysty) Netflix’s biggest acquisition is the **back-catalogue** of Roald Dahl, a children’s author, which it bought in September for around $700m.

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riches Private equity funds and independents are tempting partners with promises of fewer turf wars, quicker decisions and investment in neglected areas — but the chance of greater **riches** also helps.

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to stomach The burger chain says labour expenses have risen by 10% at its franchised restaurants and 15% at its companyowned locations. Add the rising cost of ingredients and the result is higher prices for burgers and fries. For now, it seems, customers can **stomach** it.

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zgarniać (zarabiać) Create a hit show that ran for six or seven seasons and you might earn $100m on the back-end; make a phenomenon like “Seinfeld” and you could **clear** $1bn.

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high-water mark Barrow Island, off the coast of Western Australia, is an unlikely place to find what will with luck become the **high-water mark** of the hubris of the West’s international oil companies.

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innocuous Kathleen Harris, a lawyer for Staley, said: “We wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Epstein, and code words were never used by Mr Staley in any communications with Mr Epstein, ever.” She said all the emails were **innocuous**.

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to fire up somebody Asian collectors remain **fired up** for contemporary art, bidding heavily in Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection and winning at least a dozen works in its contemporary art sales Thursday.

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stały Those with pricing power can push costs onto customers, keeping margins **steady**.

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wyskakiwać, pojawiać się Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are **popping up** all over.

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dochodowy, opłacalny (o pracy) A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively **rewarding**.

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at root All great powers, be they democracies or not, have little choice but to compete for power in what is **at root** a zero-sum game.

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zamroczyć In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even **befuddled**, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.

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z bliska “It was never the feeling of, Oh, he’s the movie star. His work ethic is unlike anyone I’ve ever met, and I’ve seen it **up close**: He trains harder, works harder, cares more, always asks more and more questions to understand the depth of what we’re doing.

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tryskać, wytrysnąć (np. o krwi, ropie) The streaming revolution has sent money **gushing** into Hollywood as studios vie to attract subscribers.

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odkąd Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. **Ever since** Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.

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ogrom Both platforms have already attracted a **slew** of startups and other firms that base some of their business on this technology.

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to befuddle In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even **befuddled**, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.

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disgrace They urged the board to review the new information and check if the CEO had played down his links with the **disgraced** financier.

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to underwrite We are watching the government literally **underwrite** a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.

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bezduszny, bezwzględny Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy broadside against the actress’s “**callous** disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.

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broadside Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy **broadside** against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.

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fizzy drink A growing number of companies are raising prices as costs for labour and raw materials rise, often with no ill effects. This summer PepsiCo, an American food giant, lifted prices for its **fizzy drinks** and snacks to offset higher commodity and transport costs; it plans further increases early next year.

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odwodzić, odwieść (np. od jakiegoś pomysłu) “The Bush and Obama administrations claimed that if we kept a nuclear weapons stockpile three or four times bigger than China, Beijing would be **dissuaded** from trying to match the US,” he says. “How’s that working out?”

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to root for Then there are the characters themselves. With the notable exception of Father Vincent, it’s hard to **root for** any of them.

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wysokie szacunki *high estimate means an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the high estimate* Younger, trendy artists also saw price jumps, including Lisa Brice’s $3.2 million “No Bare Back, after Embah,” which drew nine bidders and sold for more than 10 times its **high estimate** at Sotheby’s on Thursday.

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back-end More controversial is the streamers’ payment model, which is creating new winners and losers. Creative stars used to get an upfront fee and a “**back-end**” deal that promised a share of the project’ s future earnings.

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spiffy The concept of this “twinworld”, as the enterprise metaverse might be called (a **spiffy** moniker will surely be found), is not new.

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przyciągać spojrzenia (o czymś interesującym, atrakcyjnym) Smaller rivals with ambitious growth plans have found they can **turn the heads** of Big Four partners who feel underpaid, unloved or constrained from winning clients because of conflicts with the firms’ audit practices.

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to set foot It’s called Le Grand Colbert, and he was last here for one very long night with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, filming the end of the 2003 movie Something’s Gotta Give. He hasn’t **set foot** in the place since.

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sposób rozwiązania czegoś (jakiegoś problemu) To the contrary, Chinese leaders view liberal values as a threat to their country’s stability, and as rulers of rising powers normally do, they are pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. There is no **way around** it: engagement was a colossal strategic mistake.

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film As cinemas closed, studios scrambled to find screens for their movies . Some, like MGM’s latest James Bond **flick**, were delayed by more than a year. Others were sent to streaming platforms—sometimes without the agreement of actors or directors.

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połysk A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-**burnishing** sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.

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to backfire So far the strategy has largely **backfired**. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.

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frantic A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the **frantic** pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.

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sprzedawać; proponować seks (nierząd) They became sufficiently close that Staley visited Epstein while he was serving a prison sentence in Florida in 2009 for procuring a child for prostitution and **soliciting** a prostitute.

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to be in overdrive The Art Market **in Overdrive**. Auction houses set sales records, as did prices for artists such as Frida Kahlo, as part of a two-week, $2.3 billion frenzy of buying and selling.

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ever since Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. **Ever since** Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.

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bone deep Dorsey, 45, gave no explanation for his resignation but said the company was “ready to move on from its founders”. In an email to staff, he said he had a “**bone deep**” trust in Agrawal, who joined Twitter 10 years ago as a software engineer and worked his way up.

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prop In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest **propmakers**.

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mound It is a nature reserve dotted with termite **mounds**. Since it was severed from the mainland about 8,000 years ago, its local species, including golden bandicoots and spectacled hare-wallabies, have lived free from predators.

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development Yet a sliver of it is also home to one of the world’ s biggest liquefied natural gas (lng) **developments**, mostly owned by Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%) and Royal Dutch Shell (25%).

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zahamowywać, ograniczać As part of an effort to **constrain** China’s role in global trade, Washington could have enlisted such allies as Japan and Taiwan, reminding them that a powerful China would pose an existential threat to them.

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to observe Bill Clinton criticized Bush for “coddling” China during the 1992 presidential campaign and tried playing tough with Beijing after moving into the White House. But he soon reversed course, declaring in 1994 that the United States should “intensify and broaden its engagement” with China, which would help it “evolve as a responsible power, ever growing not only economically, but growing in political maturity so that human rights can be **observed**.”

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zmiejszać ryzyko (zwłaszcza finansowe) But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to **de-risk** the financially perilous business of moviemaking.

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sortie By far the most dangerous hotspot is Taiwan, as China flies record **sorties** of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, testing the country’s defences and trying to intimidate the government in Taipei.

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augmentation In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or **augmentation** of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

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in the works “This has been **in the works** for a while. It was part of a long-held plan,” the person said. In a regulatory filing from November 2020, Twitter noted that it had “updated the CEO succession plan in line with best practices”.

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kończyć coś It is not yet time to **call time on** old fashioned narcissism.

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steady Those with pricing power can push costs onto customers, keeping margins **steady**.

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integracja (np. w szkole) “Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. **inclusivity** and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.

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to command While the Pentagon monitors the full range of military expansion being conducted by the People’s Liberation Army, the nuclear scale-up has **commanded** huge attention because it has happened so quickly.

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obnosić się, wystawiać na pokaz, paradować An entertainment metaverse will delight music fans, influencers will flock to a fashion metaverse to **flaunt** digital clothes, and there is even a shark metaverse (it has something to do with cryptocurrencies).

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slew Both platforms have already attracted a **slew** of startups and other firms that base some of their business on this technology.

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nous /naus/ Cognitive skills, operational **nous** and financial knowledge are prerequisites for success.

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all over Users popped up from **all over**, including countries with less-developed financial systems such as South Africa, Russia and India. Binance became the largest crypto exchange within six months, and just as quickly ran into problems with authorities.

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below-the-line **Below-the-line** workers, such as cameramen and sound engineers, are also busier. Competition among studios has created a “sellers’ market”, says Spencer MacDonald of Bectu, a union in Britain, where Netflix makes more shows than anywhere outside North America.

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drażnić (coś kogoś, np. hałas) “Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would **jar** today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.

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błazenada, wybryki; przekręty He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie **shenanigans**!”

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make-up Advocates say that by manipulating the genetic **make-up** of certain viruses and isolating individual characteristics, scientists can work out what makes them most deadly, and how to identify future threats.

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acquaintance She said Mr. Zhao has been transparent about his location recently, spending the past two years under the pandemic in Singapore. According to an **acquaintance**, he rides to meetings on an electric scooter.

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podekscytować kogoś Asian collectors remain **fired up** for contemporary art, bidding heavily in Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection and winning at least a dozen works in its contemporary art sales Thursday.

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prawda, rzeczywistość, autentyczność In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic **verities**—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.

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świadomy, obeznany, ogarnięty, poinformowany *alert to injustice in society, especially racism* Detroit automakers also won an additional $4,500 bonus tax credit for EVs produced in unionized U.S. factories. Rivian’s factory in Normal, Ill., isn’t unionized—at least not yet. Rivian’s nonunion shop hasn’t put off **woke** institutional investors.

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w zasadzie, zasadniczo All great powers, be they democracies or not, have little choice but to compete for power in what is **at root** a zero-sum game.

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przestrzegać (np. prawa) Bill Clinton criticized Bush for “coddling” China during the 1992 presidential campaign and tried playing tough with Beijing after moving into the White House. But he soon reversed course, declaring in 1994 that the United States should “intensify and broaden its engagement” with China, which would help it “evolve as a responsible power, ever growing not only economically, but growing in political maturity so that human rights can be **observed**.”

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dogłębny, intensywny (np. o zmęczeniu, zrozumieniu) Dorsey, 45, gave no explanation for his resignation but said the company was “ready to move on from its founders”. In an email to staff, he said he had a “**bone deep**” trust in Agrawal, who joined Twitter 10 years ago as a software engineer and worked his way up.

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brinkmanship The Perils of Military **brinkmanship** in the Age of AI.

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znajomy She said Mr. Zhao has been transparent about his location recently, spending the past two years under the pandemic in Singapore. According to an **acquaintance**, he rides to meetings on an electric scooter.

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earnest Some are stone-faced and **earnest** to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.

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skład Advocates say that by manipulating the genetic **make-up** of certain viruses and isolating individual characteristics, scientists can work out what makes them most deadly, and how to identify future threats.

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napój gazowany A growing number of companies are raising prices as costs for labour and raw materials rise, often with no ill effects. This summer PepsiCo, an American food giant, lifted prices for its **fizzy drinks** and snacks to offset higher commodity and transport costs; it plans further increases early next year.

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up close “It was never the feeling of, Oh, he’s the movie star. His work ethic is unlike anyone I’ve ever met, and I’ve seen it **up close**: He trains harder, works harder, cares more, always asks more and more questions to understand the depth of what we’re doing.

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to jar “Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would **jar** today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.

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dzianina; robić na drutach He was wearing a surgical mask, a black **knit** cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.

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*A way for the author of the source material, or anybody else participating who may be eligible, to get some “profit participation.” This means that they are then paid some of the profit the film makes after it breaks even.* More controversial is the streamers’ payment model, which is creating new winners and losers. Creative stars used to get an upfront fee and a “**back-end**” deal that promised a share of the project’ s future earnings.

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fałszywy; mylny Beguiled by **misguided** theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.

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asekurować się; zabezpieczać się na dwie strony Some engagers now maintain that the United States **hedged its bets**, pursuing containment side by side with engagement in case a friendship with China did not flourish.

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przezwisko, pseudonim “Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of **moniker** would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.

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to come off He looks at me, momentarily confused, then realizes I’m the one who’s confused. “Oh, no, this is all movie blood,” he says, amused. “It doesn’t all **come off** in the first wash.”

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to constrain As part of an effort to **constrain** China’s role in global trade, Washington could have enlisted such allies as Japan and Taiwan, reminding them that a powerful China would pose an existential threat to them.

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to gut “A bigger, more accurate and diverse Chinese arsenal kept on higher alert would be consistent with a retaliatory only strategy, but it also gives China options to use nuclear weapons first that it has not previously had,” she says, adding that this and dismal US-China ties mean “China’s nuclear modernisation has **gutted** US confidence in Beijing’s nuclear restraint.”

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given Despite all this activity, it is not a **given** that the enterprise meta verse will take off as fast as its champions expect, if ever.

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przesądzony, z góry skazany Why are great powers **doomed** to compete? For starters, there is no higher authority to adjudicate disputes among states or protect them when threatened.

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zdrowy rozsądek Cognitive skills, operational **nous** and financial knowledge are prerequisites for success.

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woke Detroit automakers also won an additional $4,500 bonus tax credit for EVs produced in unionized U.S. factories. Rivian’s factory in Normal, Ill., isn’t unionized—at least not yet. Rivian’s nonunion shop hasn’t put off **woke** institutional investors.

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fire in one's belly Most have new ranks of hungry executives but even the veter ans still have **fire in the belly**. Michael Dell has remained at the wheel of the firm he founded in 1984, except for a hiatus in 2004-07. Asked about his future, he replies: “I love what we do: It’s fun, it’s interesting, it’s exciting. I have no plans to change my involvement.”

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shindig Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, earlier this month put it at the centre of its annual customer **shindig**, as did Nvidia, a big maker of graphics processors, on November 9th.

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zejść, sprać się (o plamie) He looks at me, momentarily confused, then realizes I’m the one who’s confused. “Oh, no, this is all movie blood,” he says, amused. “It doesn’t all **come off** in the first wash.”

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budowa; zabudowa; nowe budownictwo *tu: an area of land that is used for its natural resources, or the use of an area of land for its natural resources:* Yet a sliver of it is also home to one of the world’ s biggest liquefied natural gas (lng) **developments**, mostly owned by Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%) and Royal Dutch Shell (25%).

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hard line Not only did the United States produce the bulk of the world’s most sophisticated technologies, but it also had several levers—including sanctions and security guarantees—that it could have used to persuade other countries to take a **harder line** on China.

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to make for The demands on chief executives **make for** an increasingly strange mixture. Be more talented than others in the firm, but don't tell them what to do.

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przodować Clinton **led the way** in convincing Congress to grant China permanent most-favored-nation status, which laid the groundwork for its entry into the WTO.

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to flaunt An entertainment metaverse will delight music fans, influencers will flock to a fashion metaverse to **flaunt** digital clothes, and there is even a shark metaverse (it has something to do with cryptocurrencies).

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celny, trafny, w punkt, idealny, bezbłędny “It’s weird going back through these,” he says, lost in the text messages the way you get when you scroll back in time. “This is very **on-point** for Resurrections.”

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to punctuate He turns back to his phone, focused. He scrolls through dozens of messages, a blur of alternating blue and gray text bubbles, the gray ones—the other person’s—**punctuated** sometimes with emojis and hearts.

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wzbudzać, cieszyć się (np. uznaniem) While the Pentagon monitors the full range of military expansion being conducted by the People’s Liberation Army, the nuclear scale-up has **commanded** huge attention because it has happened so quickly.

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kości zostały rzucone He says, however, that **the die has now been cast**. After the way Russia has behaved in Ukraine, “now I consider, one way or the other, formally or not, Ukraine has to be treated in the aftermath of this as a member of NATO.”

Deck no. 24 Flashcards

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