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That hour you spent on Facebook came at the expense of some other way of using your brain, most likely TV viewing or book-reading, though as books and TV recede, ever more web-mediated activities will replace each other to the point where we'll have long forgotten what the pre-electronic mind was to begin with.
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It's a way to have Mr. Easton, a Tony winner for Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love," participate without being present, but his performance recedes into TV land.
William Wang, founder and chairman of TV maker Vizio Inc., had receded into the background at the Irvine company in recent years.
I should have buttoned my blazer, and it isn't easy for me to face my receding hairline on national TV.
"Before long the TV news standards he had spent decades establishing would recede into the land of folly". That second sentence is regrettably emblematic of the author's tendency to interject peculiar editorial generalizations into an otherwise bland text.
"If you've got a black TV, painting your wall a darker color will allow the TV to recede into that color," she said.
Over the years my reliance on TV schedulers to provide an appropriately themed series of old films has receded.
My theory is we're in a period in which the 90's partisan battles have receded and things are less bitter and there's less shouting on TV".
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