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She went alone at first, taking time to find translators who could tolerate the conditions.
He speaks thoughtfully, taking time to find the right words, which still bear traces of an accent from his Essex childhood.
The question is whether mass unemployment is a matter of laid-off construction workers taking time to find jobs in other sectors; percentage changes by sector tell you nothing at all about that, but absolute changes do.
There is a heartening story in hockey, with Chicago's Patrick Kane taking time to find the kid that wore his jersey in the Olympic team unveiling on New Year's Day.
For example, auditing systems enacted for 'transparency' may focus attention on more measurable tasks at the detriment of others (e.g. publishing lots of papers instead of taking time to find new audiences for their work).
This sentence from "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, shows how taking time to find the right verb pays off: "The forest had nearly wicked from me that tiny germ of heat allotted to each person…." Wick is an evocative word that nicely gets across the essence of a more commonplace verb like sucked or drained.
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