By JEREMY W. PETERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN
The leading candidates are both high-profile politicians with their share of detractors.
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U.S.
antitrust authorities are examining whether specialized patent-holding
firms—or "trolls" to their detractors—are disrupting competition in
high-tech markets, adding a new front to a long-standing Silicon Valley
battle.
Dictionary Translates Ancient Egypt Life
New York Times
A workshop for specialists in Demotic research was held at the university last month as the dictionary section for the letter S, the last of 25 chapters to be finished, is being posted on the Oriental Institute's Web site, where the dictionary is ...
demotic worlds
detractor
noun [C]
someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly:
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.
demotic
adj.
- Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments.
- Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
- Demotic Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
Demotic Greek.
[Greek dēmotikos, from dēmotēs, a commoner, from dēmos, people.]
demotic[de・mot・ic]
- 発音記号[dimɑ'tik | -mɔ't-]
[形]((形式))
1 民衆［人民］の.
2 （古代エジプトの）民衆文字の.
━━[名]((形式))
1 民衆文字.
2 ((D-))現代ギリシャ日常語（⇔Katharevusa）.
workshop argot
argot
n.argot
A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot. See synonyms at dialect.
[French.]
Italy's daily passeggiata evening strollPasseggiata is a babble of lively conversation as everyone window shops their
way up and down the street, everyone checking out everyone else (and even more
- troll
- [名]（北欧伝説で）ほら穴や地下に住む巨人；いたずら好きな小人（▼超自然力をもつとされ, その人形は魔よけに用いられる）.
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the cake
noun
used for talking about something that must be shared among several people or organizations, especially an amount of money
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