2020年9月12日 星期六

meld, cashpoint /ATM, big issues unanswered, charity begin at home?


Travis Scott Meets McDonald’s (It’s Lit!)
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Travis Scott Meets McDonald’s (It’s Lit!)

By Jon Caramanica
A partnership between the rapper and the fast-food chain is a melding of the merchandising minds.




Boris Johnson sought to touch a chord among voters by claiming that British aid has been treated by recipients as “some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests”


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Melding Britain’s Foreign Office and the aid ministry leaves big issues unanswered
Will charity begin at home?






LONDON — The ear-splitting jackhammers on Whitechapel High Street here meld easily into the sonic landscape of this cacophonous and scruffy section of the East End, home to the Whitechapel Gallery since 1901.

Automotive mergers and alliances have a poor track record and seldom yield lasting results. A long list of deals soured because of cultural differences and an inability to meld product lines and deliver on promises to cut costs.

 cashpoint

British. another term for automated teller machine.




meld

 verb
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)

Verb Forms
  1. meld (A) with B | meld (A and B) (together) to combine with something else; to make something combine with something elseSYNONYM blend

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noun. A thing formed by melding; a combination. 'Once known as the Enchanted Isles, the Galapagos to first time visitors are a meld of mysticism and stark reality. '


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