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  • By loosely coupling the components, each is more free to evolve at its own pace.
    evolve = develop
  • Military tactics evolved in response to machine guns and wire entanglements.
    evolved = changed
  • Fans have enjoyed watching the characters evolve for over a decade now.
    evolve = gradually develop
  • I devised a bizarre and ever evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.   (source)
    evolving = developing or changing gradually
  • Well, we know from other patients that most tumors eventually evolve a way to grow in spite of Phalanxifor, but if that were the case, we'd see tumor growth on the scans, which we don't see.   (source)
    evolve = develop or change gradually
  • Gramps said that those myths evolved because people needed a way to explain where fire came from and why there was evil in the world.   (source)
    evolved = developed
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.   (source)
    evolve = develop gradually
  • Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.   (source)
    evolved = developed
  • Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.   (source)
    evolve = adapt to changing surroundings
  • By successfully navigating the Looking Glass Maze, you will evolve to warrior queen.   (source)
    evolve = develop
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  • A taboo was evolving round that word too.   (source)
    evolving = developing
  • In communities with limited resources like Humboldt Park and East L.A., sophisticated survival structures evolved, including gangs, out of the bone and sinew tossed up by this environment.   (source)
    evolved = gradually developed
  • Gradually a democracy evolved, with popular assemblies and courts of law.   (source)
    evolved = developed
  • Over time the group evolved into Women for Women International, working with survivors not only in Bosnia but in war-torn countries all over the world.   (source)
    evolved = changed
  • Most believed that only the least civilized souls, the least evolved, the lesser among us, would be drawn to the path of Seeker.   (source)
    evolved = developed
  • Do you think that the civilizations of two planets can progress at the same rate and evolve in the same way, Hinkston?   (source)
    evolve = develop
  • A mythological world picture also existed in Greece when the first philosophy was evolving.   (source)
    evolving = developing
  • And as the argument evolves, the best of both arguments will often crystallize.   (source)
    evolves = develops
  • One could almost say he developed with the German spirit as it gradually evolved in Germany.   (source)
    evolved = changed
  • It's like a test, isn't it, and only the things and the people who've been evolving the right way survive.   (source)
    evolving = adapting
  • He thought that our world was only one of a myriad of worlds that evolve and dissolve in something he called the boundless.   (source)
    evolve = develop
  • Even before him, Darwin's own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had suggested that plants and animals had evolved from some few primitive species.   (source)
    evolved = gradually developed
  • We only know that the notion gradually evolved that there must be a basic substance that was the hidden cause of all changes in nature.   (source)
    evolved = developed
  • By philosophy we mean the completely new way of thinking that evolved in Greece about six hundred years before the birth of Christ.   (source)
  • In a larger sense, China has emerged as a model on gender issues for developing countries: It evolved from repressing women to emancipating them, underscoring that cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.   (source)
    evolved = changed
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  • Traits that evolved through sexual selection are particularly prominent among males of several animal species.
    evolved = changed (through evolution)
  • Different mutations had occurred in the isolated populations that evolved in different cave systems.
    evolved = changed through evolution
  • And single-celled life emerged in the oceans, and then over billions of years, life got more abundant and complex, until two hundred fifty thousand or so years ago, humans evolved, and we started using more advanced tools, and then eventually built spaceships and everything.   (source)
    evolved = came into existence through evolution
  • In fact, because we have evolved as a species to pay the utmost attention to that which is just beyond our reach, these men are likely to dwell on the splendors of Moscow more than any Muscovite who is at liberty to enjoy them.   (source)
    evolved = developed a characteristic through evolution
  • Many other large species have associated creatures that have evolved to eat their excrement.   (source)
    evolved = genetically changed through evolution
  • As a species, we have evolved to survive.   (source)
    evolved = developed (gradually changed genetically)
  • Grasses have evolved so that they can survive being eaten very well.   (source)
    evolved = gradually changed through evolution
  • Couldn't we have evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey?   (source)
    evolved = came into existence through evolution
  • We can also imagine how some such 'primal giraffes' evolved the ability to dig in the ground for food.   (source)
    evolved = genetically created through evolution
  • Traditional anthropology is primarily interested in five areas: when man first began to evolve, when he started to walk upright, why there were so many hominid species, why and how those species evolved, and what all of that means for the evolutionary history of modem man.   (source)
    evolved = developed (genetically)
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  • I wonder why we didn't evolve with eyes in the back of our heads?   (source)
    evolve = develop genetically
  • Think of the thousands of years it takes to evolve plants.   (source)
    evolve = gradually develop a new species through evolution
  • "The stegosaurs are a mid-Jurassic animal, evolving about a hundred and seventy million years ago," the recording said.   (source)
    evolving = becoming a new species through evolution
  • Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't a will to survive.   (source)
    evolve = develop (through evolution)
  • Cows have evolved over millions of years to eat grass.   (source)
    evolved = gradually changed through evolution
  • These animals have evolved to eat grass.   (source)
    evolved = genetically changed through evolution
  • Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes.   (source)
    evolve = genetically develop through evolution
  • So when they evolved this ability to think together, wouldn't they still keep the queen?   (source)
    evolved = genetically developed through evolution
  • At the same time, grasses have evolved over millions of years to be eaten by cows.   (source)
    evolved = gradually changed through evolution
  • I mean, as a species, do you know how you evolved?   (source)
    evolved = came into existence through evolution
  • But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard.   (source)
    evolved = changed genetically through natural selection
  • As the Count listened, the essence of the Englishman's idea seemed perfectly intuitive— that over tens of thousands of years a species would slowly evolve in order to maximize its chances of survival.   (source)
    evolve = genetically change through evolution
  • Across the aeons of time animals have evolved with increasingly complicated nerve systems—and an ever bigger brain.   (source)
    evolved = gradually changed through evolution
  • Like, they're evolving faster?   (source)
    evolving = changing through evolution
  • The poison in Serenna veriformans was a minor example of the elaborate chemical arsenal of weapons that plants had evolved.   (source)
    evolved = genetically created through evolution
  • DNA evolves over time, like everything else in an organism-hands or feet or any other physical attribute.   (source)
    evolves = changes through evolution
  • And had the finches adapted to their surroundings on the different islands over the ages in such a way that new species of finches evolved?   (source)
    evolved = genetically changed through evolution
  • But Ellie knew that, in the earth's history, plants had evolved as competitively as animals, and in some ways more fiercely.   (source)
  • In 1871 Darwin published The Descent of Man, in which he drew attention to the great similarities between humans and animals, advancing the theory that men and anthropoid apes must at one time have evolved from the same progenitor.   (source)
    evolved = genetically changed to become a species through evolution
  • The buggers were organisms that could conceivably have evolved on Earth, if things had gone a different way a billion years ago.   (source)
    evolved = developed into a species
  • Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America.   (source)
    evolve = genetic change through evolution
  • Though their internal organs were now much more complex and specialized than any insects, and they had evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of the exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors, who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants.   (source)
    evolved = developed through evolution
  • The reason was apparently genetic: the male had evolved to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, and by killing the cubs he brought all the females into heat, so that he could impregnate them.   (source)
    evolved = changed through evolution
  • Such neck flexion was so common in fossils that some scientists had formulated a theory to explain it, suggesting that the dinosaurs had become extinct because they had been poisoned by the evolving alkaloids in plants.   (source)
    evolving = changing through evolution
  • Maybe it's something that's evolved from our primeval days when your survival odds were better if you picked up on your buddy's fear without wasting time to discuss it.   (source)
    evolved = came into existence through evolution
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  • The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me.†   (source)
  • My parents are highly evolved worriers.†   (source)
  • "But what you don't know is that this was not a program they evolved into.†   (source)
  • It helps society evolve.†   (source)
  • I don't know why, but after a few years Mamaw's views evolved on fighting.†   (source)
  • Their working relationship evolved quickly into courtship, then love.†   (source)
  • Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting.†   (source)
  • It has evolved over the years into another term… a more modern name.†   (source)
  • If only people were smarter, evolved enough to treat everyone the same even if they looked different.†   (source)
  • A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end.†   (source)
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  • He started his own pulpwood business that evolved with the timber industry in the 1970s.†   (source)
  • Because an eye has to evolve from something else very like an eye and it doesn't just happen because of a genetic mistake, and what is the use of half an eye?†   (source)
  • They haven't been exposed to pesticides or pollution, so they haven't developed immunities or evolved in any way.†   (source)
  • It was remarkable how my state of mind had evolved over the last five days.†   (source)
  • "Everything in the universe evolved," he said.†   (source)
  • I said: "The experience is evolving."†   (source)
  • " "I guess we've evolved to just winning in the toy and electronics market," I said.†   (source)
  • We did not evolve like them, with powers and strengths beyond our limited imaginations.†   (source)
  • We pass the time looking out at the evolving landscape, talking, playing games.†   (source)
  • The JAYC Foundation evolved from a deep need to give back all that I was given.†   (source)
  • It's the first apartment he has to himself, after an evolving chain of roommates all through college and graduate school.†   (source)
  • This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.†   (source)
  • And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being….†   (source)
  • It worked for the bears, he thought, smiling, and it worked for him, and this thinking evolved into what Brian thought of as an understanding between him and the bears: Since he left them alone, they would leave him alone.†   (source)
  • Lunars were a society that had evolved from an Earthen moon colony centuries ago, but they weren't human anymore.†   (source)
  • I don't even remember how it started or what I wanted it to be, but somehow it evolved into this.†   (source)
  • Later, it evolved into a secular holiday, mainly for children.†   (source)
  • Like humans, they evolve.†   (source)
  • It could not have evolved by chance.†   (source)
  • Thalia stared at him as if he'd just evolved from pond scum.†   (source)
  • In and out I glided of slow moments, delightful, shades drawn, empty cloud dreams and evolving shadows, a stillness like Jan Weenix's gorgeous trophy pieces, dead birds with bloodstained feathers hanging from a foot, and in whatever wink of consciousness that remained to me I felt I understood the secret grandeur of dying, all the knowledge held back from all humankind until the very end: no pain, no fear, magnificent detachment, lying in state upon the death barge and receding into…†   (source)
  • They have evolved to live with human beings.†   (source)
  • But I also knew that Christianity had evolved from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that I believe the Ousters have done what Web humanity has not in the past millennia: evolved.†   (source)
  • The game of football evolved and here was one cause of its evolution, a new kind of athlete doing a new kind of thing.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Kathy's outlook was evolving.†   (source)
  • Okay, we got a rapidly evolving situation.†   (source)
  • This woman's feelings, obsessed though they might have been, had never evolved into Annie's paranoid fixation, but Paul understood now that the wellspring had been the same.†   (source)
  • A middle-aged executive, whom Idris last saw three years before, comes in with an evolving anterior myocardial infarction.†   (source)
  • She has evolved orders of preference.†   (source)
  • Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad evolved his own theory about how he would do this.†   (source)
  • As humans evolved, most lost the ability to see the aura.†   (source)
  • The shape of him evolved slowly: a boy, not much older than Jace and probably six inches shorter.†   (source)
  • "They evolved from traveling judges," Lorren said.†   (source)
  • His despair gradually evolved into the source of his resolve, and as the boy became the young man, he noticed that his stepsisters were suddenly showing more interest in him.†   (source)
  • Who knew if those plants were even around anymore—everything seemed to have evolved strangely after the Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • He then went ahead and described some of the methods of comparison that had evolved in the classroom.†   (source)
  • We'd evolved this system where we called for particular favourite scenes to be played again—like, for instance, the moment the American jumps over the barbed wire on his bike in The Great Escape.†   (source)
  • Failure evolved into a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • The most respected men, in accordance with the ethos that had evolved on San Piedro, pursued no one and cultivated radio silence.†   (source)
  • A sort of camaraderie evolved, as it might not have had they been on the street, in the open, for then they would likely have scattered, and the devil take the hindmost, but here they were penned in together, and being penned in made them into a grouping, a group.†   (source)
  • Haitians believe in sorcery because their culture has evolved in the absence of effective medicine.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of summer he evolved another plan.†   (source)
  • Drew, were you born an idiot, or did that evolve?†   (source)
  • Gradually, over how long a period of days I do not know, a strategy evolved in my troubled mind.†   (source)
  • We soon evolved more efficient methods.†   (source)
  • "The reason I chose the shingaling as the centerpiece of this dance," explains Echevarri, "is because it's the only one of the dance fads of the time that actually evolved over the years to reflect the musical styles and genres of the musicians and dancers interpreting it.†   (source)
  • Al knew that already; plans had been evolving for months.†   (source)
  • Every race has evolved their own system of writing the ancient language.†   (source)
  • She touches the evolving blanket.†   (source)
  • As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • We meet Gulliver as a dreamy young man in search of adventure, trying to get anywhere that would involve sea travel, and see him evolve masterfully.†   (source)
  • But I'd really like for us to begin a conversation about our relationship and what, if we do decide to continue it, each of us would like to see it evolve into in the coming year.†   (source)
  • That in our DNA is stored genetic memories of when we were an evolving species and when you take the stuff the Indians of Brazil take you'll access your genetic library all the way back to cellular experience.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the urban street gang evolved from a club for wayward teenagers into a true commercial enterprise.†   (source)
  • He gave public praise to the intelligence of a man who from pure astronomical speculation had evolved a theory that had already been proved in practice, although unknown in Macondo until then, and as a proof of his admiration he made him a gift that was to have a profound influence on the future of the village: the laboratory of an alchemist.†   (source)
  • What evolved was a style of building, known as "Chicago School," that was not just handsome, but truly fire-resistant.†   (source)
  • It means your mind hasn't evolved yet to be able to see them for what they really are."†   (source)
  • In the Korean War, UDTs evolved and went farther inland, blowing up bridges and tunnels.†   (source)
  • So stories change and evolve. like living things.†   (source)
  • So Drake is the experiment in evolving tactics?†   (source)
  • One weekend, Adam and Kelley drove from Hot Springs to Bentonville so Adam could see Sam Walton's original Five & Dime, which had evolved into Wal-Mart—another bit of his Arkansas trivia.†   (source)
  • "The CAI's board of directors evolved along with its philosophy.†   (source)
  • Rocks and rats and life-forms evolved beyond the need for physical bodies.†   (source)
  • What I found instead was an infinite lacing of social refinements that had evolved over centuries.†   (source)
  • My idea of him evolved.†   (source)
  • I thought this marked Jamie—who was straight—as a highly evolved male.†   (source)
  • Let's see what kind of procedure we can evolve.†   (source)
  • They can influence people like Ridley can, but they can also Evolve, morph into other people, into anyone.†   (source)
  • He read rigorously for several days, caught a few small errors, and penciled in supporting facts, especially about his evolved musical tastes.†   (source)
  • Me and all my men here, before we evolved.†   (source)
  • "And there is faith here," Ultima added, "a faith in the reason for nature being, evolving, growing—"†   (source)
  • The city is evolving, and I feel part of that evolution, unlike in Madras, where the city seems to have been completed centuries before I was born.†   (source)
  • "You're evolved enough," he said.†   (source)
  • He admitted that Freud was a genius and a cautious scientist, but he said that Freud evolved a theory of behavior based only on the study of abnormal cases.†   (source)
  • My spirituality has evolved hand in hand with my becoming a physician.†   (source)
  • In the last thirty years more than a thousand strains of "pure" animals had been evolved artificially.†   (source)
  • But the resentful silence into which her anger evolved was lasting much longer than Annie had expected.†   (source)
  • The enemy had evolved.†   (source)
  • It was the largest of many additions made to the Manse as Rowan Academy evolved from a secret school of magic into an independent nation.†   (source)
  • Besides, it made her think about something that had simply seemed to evolve almost unplanned.†   (source)
  • But dictionary references and usage notes do evolve.†   (source)
  • If the Books were in these two trunks, the Desert Dwellers had embraced them as part of their own evolving religion.†   (source)
  • He looked like a species of mankind not yet fully evolved.†   (source)
  • Only socially evolved, brilliant people are allowed to blow themselves up?†   (source)
  • When she asked after my latest assignment I answered that it was sensitive and evolving but going well, and after a pause Lelia said down to her cold plate, Oh good, it's the Henryspeak.†   (source)
  • He rapped on the door, his mind racing, facts analyzed, absorbed and discarded as rapidly as they came to him, a strategy evolving.†   (source)
  • A symmetry has evolved because the sap will not surrender.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile John Bowley and his Quaker friend had evolved a plan, a bold and desperate plan, which might or might not work.†   (source)
  • Their executive branch of government would be strengthened, evolving towards a dictatorship.†   (source)
  • " "Isn't it a shame we aren't all so evolved?"†   (source)
  • Many things in life—whether it's food, business, or even someone's personality—slowly evolve over time.†   (source)
  • But unlike most races. the humans do not slowly evolve technologically.†   (source)
  • "You'd think bullies would eventually evolve past that, right?"†   (source)
  • Everything from picking tomatoes to delivering babies to multiple marriages was part of the Farm's ever-evolving spiritual life.†   (source)
  • Dan had evolved a barter system for his services.†   (source)
  • They had evolved on a much smaller world and then conquered this one, changing not only its atmosphere but even its gravity.†   (source)
  • And that (as it evolved in her recollection) is nearly all.†   (source)
  • They might continue to evolve, they might degenerate, they might conflict to the point of destruction or gross modification of any or all of them.†   (source)
  • In his lycee blazer, Ferdinand saw himself as evolved and important, as in the colonial days.†   (source)
  • But the descendants of those colonists won't evolve.†   (source)
  • Having to look after several mechanical instruments at once, Kolia had evolved a special style of speech, obscure, abrupt, and puzzling, which enabled him, if he chose, to avoid answering questions or getting involved in a conversation.†   (source)
  • Obeah had evolved into something I thought was a good leader.†   (source)
  • For me, the jungle has quickly evolved from a place of protection to a sinister trap.†   (source)
  • Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own.†   (source)
  • I guess lawyers haven't evolved much over the centuries.†   (source)
  • Andros was still a man, but he sensed he was evolving into something else.†   (source)
  • As I explained, grass has evolved to be in partnership with grass eaters.†   (source)
  • In their harsh environment, the Trisolarans had evolved the ability to switch sleep on and off.†   (source)
  • The look on her face evolved from challenging to doubtful to speculative to careful.†   (source)
  • We have evolved an uneasy peace with them but there is the problem of familiarity.†   (source)
  • They locked themselves in their laboratories, and tried to evolve, as gold had.†   (source)
  • They never evolved again: they should never have survived.†   (source)
  • Some gorgeous systems have evolved from these beliefs.†   (source)
  • But what I had that my dog didn't was an evolved brain that at least slightly exceeded my brawn.†   (source)
  • Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed.†   (source)
  • A different Art evolved …. a more potent, immediate, and intoxicating influence.†   (source)
  • And, for wise men, gold is the metal that evolved the furthest.†   (source)
  • As it evolved toward eating just one food, it didn't need to think as much.†   (source)
  • Human beings evolved to survive and be healthy on a diet of wild meat and plants.†   (source)
  • Our bodies evolved to use those same compounds to protect us from disease.†   (source)
  • Our bodies, from our teeth to our brains, evolved to help us hunt, cook, and eat meat.†   (source)
  • Humans evolved to eat meat from wild animals, animals that ate little or no grain.†   (source)
  • It is an instinct that evolved to help us through times of food shortage.†   (source)
  • A rumen has evolved into the perfect organ for digesting grass.†   (source)
  • It is the food chain we evolved to be part of.†   (source)
  • They depend on animals to eat them and spread their seeds, so they have evolved to be noticed.†   (source)
  • The chickens get to do, and eat, what they evolved to do and eat.†   (source)
  • Just lately these dreams had evolved into something less understandable but more sinister.†   (source)
  • They had no memories or evolved instincts to shape their view of the world or its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • As he came closer, the white objects evolved into hands gripping the bars.†   (source)
  • But this was the New Me, someone I was evolving into with every hot and humid long summer day.†   (source)
  • There it was: a shadow, evolving out of the dark into a human shape.†   (source)
  • Bread and wine do nothing to sustain a greater demon, much less allow it to evolve.†   (source)
  • If Kronos evolved into his true form, there would be no stopping him.†   (source)
  • It's always evolving, turning into something else.†   (source)
  • "It would seem they have evolved," said Millard.†   (source)
  • Instead of pursuing the path of a nebbish Mystic, David had evolved into a field general.†   (source)
  • The first clear evidence that a new dialect was evolving came in the 1960s.†   (source)
  • It takes socially evolved brilliant people to figure out how notto blow themselves up.†   (source)
  • "How come I'm supposed to save the world, when I'm not even the most evolved experiment?"†   (source)
  • I did not think we had stayed in one place; I believe we had evolved.†   (source)
  • He squirmed so badly I could almost believe he had evolved from maggots.†   (source)
  • Some women draw one on, I'll tell you, that's how anxious they are to evolve.†   (source)
  • I've evolved past being stuck to the ground."†   (source)
  • Some of those maggots evolved, with a little help from the gods, into dwarves.†   (source)
  • No, sir, Angela is fully evolved, beauty mark and all.†   (source)
  • Through this random method of communication, the full story evolved and took form.†   (source)
  • How did the present political organization evolve out of the Disorders?†   (source)
  • The fragile records of that period had not evolved into our cheap items of conspicuous consumption.†   (source)
  • I am an artifact …. an evolving icon.†   (source)
  • A shape began to coalesce out of it, like black paint being stroked over white canvas, evolving into the figure of a man with broad, planklike shoulders.†   (source)
  • Religions evolve!†   (source)
  • With just these contrasts, the child might grow up thinking either that day and night are predictable, though not always pleasant, or that the world is chaotic, frantic, or freely evolving.†   (source)
  • As the left tackle position evolved, it experienced as many false starts and dead ends and random mutations and unnatural selections as the other little evolutions deep inside football.†   (source)
  • A few of the routines have changed and tested over the years, and I imagine they will continue to evolve.†   (source)
  • Once the deck gunners on the nukesub figure out how to hit the Kowloon, the situation begins to evolve even more rapidly.†   (source)
  • How could our parents have ever imagined that someday we would end up in a country where monosyllabic names reign supreme, a land where "William" is shortened to "Bill," where "Susan" becomes "Sue," and "Richard" somehow evolves into "Dick"?†   (source)
  • Angola evolved over time to have some excellent programs for incarcerated people who stayed out of trouble, and many of our clients took full advantage.†   (source)
  • Over time this theory evolved into him thinking that since he could hear the angels in his mind, he figured that others should be able to hear his voice in the same manner, too.†   (source)
  • I was halfway through the title piece explaining how the myth of the dragon in all likelihood evolved from the much more mundane draccus when a scriv appeared at my elbow.†   (source)
  • The phrase derives from the French Sangraal, which evolved to Sangreal, and was eventually split into two words, San Greal.†   (source)
  • As the New Bushido evolved it combined the age-old concepts of honor and individual courage with the need to spare civilians whenever possible.†   (source)
  • She had been in the business long enough to see the terms evolve from "chakras" to "ch'i," "prang," "vital energy," "life force," "biomagnetic force," "bioenergy fields," and finally back to "chakras."†   (source)
  • All complex life on Earth had evolved from these ancestors, including us, and we were all still worms if you looked at the human form from the inside out.†   (source)
  • In the Warden's evolving dream, his children grew up and had families and all settled down around him and Ginny in one large compound.†   (source)
  • The recipes for Gey Culture Medium evolved constantly as George and Margaret added and removed ingredients, searching for the perfect balance.†   (source)
  • No, Kano Jigoro created modern judo, but he based his fighting system on jujitsu, which is related to aikido, which evolved around the fourteenth century.†   (source)
  • And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo.†   (source)
  • Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a fina and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.†   (source)
  • The New Bushido Code which governed Colonel Kassad's life had evolved out of the necessity for the military class to survive.†   (source)
  • I pay two hundred dollars a month, every month, and I think of it as my "regret money," and though what I am regretful for mutates and evolves, I am glad to pay it, the only mortgage I will ever be given.†   (source)
  • Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions.†   (source)
  • From there, what is now known as the Labrador retriever may have evolved through unintentional, willy-nilly cross-breeding.†   (source)
  • It would have been odd for such a complex and vast world to not have evolved something akin to intelligence.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment precedent requires not only that a particular sentence offend "evolving standards of decency.' but also that it be "unusual."†   (source)
  • Van Valen explained this idea years later, saying, "HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about."†   (source)
  • You've evolved an entire system around this figure, a structure with countless substructures and interrelated fields of study, a history within history.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the OASIS continued to evolve and grow in popularity, protected from takeover attempts and legal challenges by the ironclad terms of Halliday's will and the army of rabid lawyers he had tasked with administering his estate.†   (source)
  • While the girls took the kids and left to get some tea and breakfast, I started explaining to Chuck how neighborhood watches were evolving on the meshnet, the emergency service tools, and how we were keeping a record of everything that happened out there on centralized laptops like Vince's.†   (source)
  • Their early attempts at composition had been part of a bludgeoning insistence that they be accepted as a properly evolved and cultured race, but now the only thing that kept them going was sheer bloody-mindedness.†   (source)
  • Today, this soaring icon—the father of our country ascending to heaven—hung silently above our lawmakers, leaders, and presidents …. a bold reminder, a map to the future, a promise of a time when man would evolve to complete spiritual maturity.†   (source)
  • Even though it was initially marketed as a new kind of massively multiplayer online game, the OASIS quickly evolved into a new way of life.†   (source)
  • According to some signs, the bodies of the Trisolarans who formed the computer were covered by a purely reflective surface, which probably evolved as a response to survival under extreme conditions of sunlight.†   (source)
  • The word was still used today, even in modern English …. but like the craft of killing, the word had evolved.†   (source)
  • The OCS:HTN was part of the Worldweb All Thing, the real-time network which governed Hegemony politics, fed information to tens of billions of data-hungry citizens, and had evolved a form of autonomy and consciousness all its own.†   (source)
  • Dog Beach operated on its own set of unwritten rules that had evolved over time, put in place by consensus of the dog owners who frequented it, and enforced by peer pressure and a sort of silent moral code.†   (source)
  • And they found the Philosopher's Stone, because they understood that when something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.†   (source)
  • Like many of history's most spiritually evolved men, Mal'akh had committed to his path by making the noblest of flesh sacrifices.†   (source)
  • Because only the hand understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six days of creation had evolved into a Master Work.†   (source)
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