fiddly, to bag, sight-read, partita. Crop breeding remains a fiddly business. Most Black Friday shoppers bagged their deals online this year, with record spending

Crop breeding remains a fiddly business. Figuring out which genetics suit which conditions can take decades. But this lab is aiming to speed things up

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Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding

AI in the field

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Most Black Friday shoppers bagged their deals online this year, with record spending

As many opted to surf the web instead of face the crowds the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers spent a record $10.8 billion in online purchases. Cyber Monday is set to smash another spending record.

fiddly choice 
Today, when I feel the need for a “tune up,” I usually reach for Bach. Try to practice a movement of one of the Sonatas or Partitas—it’s pure therapy for your brain and fingers. I also like to sight read—I find this wakes up one’s senses, like a good espresso.

When it comes to fiscal policy, Trump is not interested, while Clinton, for once, not scrutinised. America would be best-served by a rigorous contest of economic ideas. It is not getting that

Election brief: Hillary Clinton’s fiscal plan is fiddly. Donald Trump’s is absurd

Money’s the conversation

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The BBC's Jon Sopel bags a seat on President Obama's flight.

*features special M&Ms and James Bond! 

Inside the bubble: On board Air Force

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Sometimes her policies are fiddly. Be bold, be ambitious, Hillary

partita

pɑːˈtiːtə/

noun

MUSIC

plural noun: partitas

1. a suite, typically for a solo instrument or chamber ensemble.

   "unaccompanied violin partitas"

sight-read

verb

1. read and perform (music) from sheet music, without preparation.

   "by the time he was seven, Mozart could sight-read anything he was given"

 bag

Succeed in killing or catching (an animal):Mike bagged nineteen cod

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2.1Succeed in securing (something):we’ve bagged three awards for excellenceget there early to bag a seat in the front row

fiddly

ˈfɪdli/

adjective

BRITISHinformal

1. complicated or detailed and awkward to do or use.

   "replacing the battery is fiddly"

sticking around. Is sticking around always worth the risk?Bill Gates’s Biggest Regret: Letting an Old Love Slip Away

 

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Bill Gates recently described his divorce from Melinda French Gates as a painful “mistake.” As he’s learned, you can’t put a price on a relationship that’s seen you through it all. But our dating columnist wonders: Is sticking around always worth the risk?

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Bill Gates’s Biggest Regret: Letting an Old Love Slip Away
to stay somewhere and wait for someone or for something to happen: You go ahead – I'll stick around until Candice shows up.


STICK AROUND | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

"Stick a fork in it" DeepSeek sticks a fork in utility investors’ socket

 DeepSeek sticks a fork in utility investors’ socket

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DeepSeek sticks a fork in utility investors’ socket
A slowdown would be better news for the en

"Stick a fork in it" means that something is finished, done, or beyond repair, often used humorously to indicate that a situation is completely over and there's no point trying to change it; essentially, you can "fork it" because it's done cooking (like a cooked piece of meat) and ready to be served. 

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