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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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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
- 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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