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This common English word never appears by itself in the Articles of Confederation, but it does appear as a combining form with -in, -of, -on, and -upon (though not -as).

One took office in a Compromise which scuttled Reconstruction; the other proposed the nuclear model of the atom. What name do they share, in different positions?

Alongside (and following) a more primal emotion, what was titularly experienced by Raoul Duke in a 1971 novel, and then by America as a whole per a report from the following year's presidential campaign trail?

Which tool, traditionally used for turning, had not yet been invented in Chuang Tzu's time -- at least on Earth. This fact notwithstanding, its mention in a mistranslation of Chuang Tzu gave Ursula K. Le Guin the title for one of her novels. Name the machine.

Due to a new policy which took effect on May 31 of this year, a child in the People's Republic of China can now with official permission have both a 哥哥 (gēgē) and a 弟弟 (dìdì). English doesn't distinguish between these terms at the single-word level; what single word in English encompasses both?

"_______ refers to physical distance... _______ refers to an extension of time or degree."

This is the AP Stylebook's guidance on the distinction between what two semantically and phonetically similar comparatives (one of which is also approximately the name of a famous bus)? Correct order not required.

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Atkinson and Floyd-Steinberg are two algorithms for what procedure used in image processing, which deliberately adds noise? An example of the output is seen here.

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The moving van in the first shot of Lee Isaac Chung's film Minari, not coincidentally, bears the name of what author? Chung planned to adapt one of that author's novels, but later decided to base the movie on his own experiences; still, an affinity remains between his story of Korean immigrants in Arkansas and her story of Czech immigrants a century earlier and a couple states to the northwest.

Still Bill is the second studio album from a singer-songwriter whose last name is also a part of a horse's anatomy. What is that name/word?

In ecclesiastical law, a modus decimandi is a customized means of -- or an exemption from -- performing what usually annual obligation?

In a letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels, Benjamin Franklin proposed research "to discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix’d with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes."

In comparison to such a noble project, Franklin asserts, the Academy's current concerns are scarcely worth what unit of currency, whose first four letters he emphasizes by means of uncustomary typography?

The most prominent Scrabble sets in which a certain letter appears are Icelandic Scrabble, where it is worth 2 points, and Gretchen McCulloch's English IPA Scrabble, in which it is worth 10. The name of that letter is also a playable word in English Scrabble, worth a total of 6 points (or 7 for a variant spelling). Give either spelling.