methodical, explosion, skip, skep; fair wick, rare — albeit stage-managed — chances to pose questions

Putin Skips Annual News Conference, Avoiding Possible Questions on War

The event has offered reporters rare — albeit stage-managed — chances to pose questions. With the war going poorly for Russia, that could have been awkward.

" Femme Couchée à la Mèche Blonde, 21 Decembre (Woman lying has a fair wick (blond hair) 1932

By Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas

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Chef d'Oeuvres de la Collection Nahmad

“All the signs are that there has been a major dislocation in global supply chains."

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Ships Are Skipping China and It’s Causing Turmoil for Trade “All the signs are that there has been a major dislocation in global supply chains."




Guardian US takes you behind the scenes of an impressively methodical government takeover.


How Republicans won: data-driven campaigns and folksy charm helped seal midterms victory

Republicans won eight out of nine key Senate races, regained control of the upper chamber of Congress and triumphed in crucial gubernatorial contests

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Following on from yesterday's story about men prosecuted for taking food from a skip, the supermarket's boss has asked why the action was taken and stated they don't want the prosecutions to go ahead

Iceland says it has asked CPS why men are being tried for taking food from bins

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Chief executive says he has contacted prosecutors after men were charged and insists Iceland did not call police

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Definition of wick

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: a bundle of fibers or a loosely twisted, braided, or woven cord, tape, or tube usually of soft spun cotton threads that by capillary attraction draws up to be burned a steady supply of the oil in lamps or the melted tallow or wax in candles

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Pronunciation: /skɪp /

VERB (SKIPS, SKIPPING, SKIPPED)

• 1[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:she began to skip down the path
  

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• 2[NO OBJECT] British jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise:(as noun skipping) training was centred on running and skipping
  

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• 2.1[WITH OBJECT] North American jump over (a rope that is being turned):the younger girls had been skipping rope
  

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• 2.2[WITH OBJECT] jump lightly over:the children used to skip the puddles
  

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• 3[WITH OBJECT] omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following):the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he’s not interested in
  

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• 3.1[NO OBJECT] move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another:Marian skipped half-heartedly through the book
  

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• 4[WITH OBJECT] fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss:I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mothertry not to skip breakfast
  

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• 4.1[NO OBJECT] (skip it) • informal abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity:after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it
  

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• 4.2[NO OBJECT] • informal run away; disappear:I’m not giving them a chance to skip offagain
  

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• 4.3• informal depart quickly and secretly from:she skipped her home amid rumours of a romance
  

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• 5[WITH OBJECT] throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water:they skipped stones across the creek
  

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• 1a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement:he moved with a strange, dancing skip
  

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• 2Computing an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
  

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• 3North American • informal a person who defaults or absconds.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.

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Pronunciation: /skɛp/(also skip /skɛp/)

NOUN

• 1a straw or wicker beehive.
  

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• 1.1• archaic a wooden or wicker basket:three skeps of vegetables

Origin

late Old English sceppe 'basket', from Old Norseskeppa 'basket, bushel'.

methodical

mɪˈθɒdɪk(ə)l/

adjective

1. done according to a systematic or established procedure.

   "a methodical approach to the evaluation of computer systems"
2. • (of a person) orderly or systematic in thought or behaviour.

     "she was so methodical, she kept everything documented"