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So many forms are still unnamed because -- despite rhetorical government support -- there are pathetically few scientists paid to describe them.

There are pathetically few mainstream secondary schools in the UK with special units for managing challenging behaviour and there are very few BESD settings meaning they are oversubscribed.

Today, after a century of the Nobel, only 11 women scientists have received a prize, and Britain's Royal Society still has pathetically few women fellows.

In her 2015 book "The Soul of an Octopus," the naturalist Sy Montgomery points out that if an octopus were to measure human intelligence, it might test us on the number of color patterns we can produce on the skin of our (pathetically few) appendages.

Along with several other major court rulings, it ushered in American Crossroads, American Action Network, and many similar groups that now can reel in unlimited donations with pathetically few requirements to disclose their funders.

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Up to my shins in hail as I pathetically harvested the few dozen survivors, I experienced a horrifying vision of my family's survival prospects had we lived in anything but the Wal-Mart era.

It may seem like I'm on the LGBT indie filmmakers' soapbox, with a tin can in my hand, pathetically rattling around a few cents in order to get people's attention so that we can see stories that reflect us by showing our struggles while highlighting our triumphs.

Our generation was pathetically educated, just pathetic beyond imagination.

Yet by the end of the movie, when Jake is a bloated, chest-puffing stand-up comic pathetically mouthing off in a dive for a few extra dollars, the character has achieved a certain embattled nobility.

Early ones dribbled out pathetically small flows of lumens and were ridiculously inefficient, converting fewer watts to lumens than even the notoriously inefficient incandescent bulb.

I understand pathetically little Hindi and even less Nepali, his native language; he knows a few choice English words and speaks a rapid, rugged form of Hindi.

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