Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a mealaround a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debatearound whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bendaround a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peepingaround the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
Men that I knewaround Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
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Turbines have beenaround for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latinturbo, meaningvortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
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Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She lookedaround expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the lifearound, it changes everything.
From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned thingsaround.
He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed thataround.
The patient was unconscious but the doctor brought himaround quickly.
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