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| (en) Here's Jared Kushner going for the world record of most meaningless corporate buzzwords used in a single one-minute video clip (fr) Voici Jared Kushner qui essaye de battre le record de mots marketing vides de sens utilisés en une seule minute |
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| 222 | to liken | comparer, assimiler qch à | |
| (en) They likened Covid-19, which by that point has already extended its tentacles into at least 28 states in the US, to the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people around the globe | |||
| 223 | resourceful | débrouillard, ingénieux, astucieux, habile | |
| (en) Then a resourceful reporter asked him to set out the Trump administration's latest forecast for how coronavirus would progress in the country | |||
| 224 | dogged | tenace, opiniâtre | |
| (en) But his dogged pursuit of his own instincts, his preference for letting his "hunches" lead the nation into battle rather than deploying the weaponry of evidence and science, has been the hallmark of his response to the contagion so far | |||
| 225 | to hurtle | foncer | |
| 226 | to chastise | châtier, réprimander | |
| (en) Tracy Brennan chastised superiors at hospitals trust for making her remove mask she had bought herself | |||
| 227 | to chafe | frotter, irriter, brûler | |
| (en) As Brazilians chafed under lockdown and largely ignored Bolsonaro's demands to get back to work, there are signs that many people also sought reliable information instead of his anti-science, anti-media, populist posturing | |||
| 228 | throes | les affres | |
| 229 | mindless | irréfléchi, gratuit, bêtifiant | |
| (en) You could read it every day in his endless, mindless tweeting or the oh-so-subtle briefings of his campaign aides. | |||
| 230 | to pale into insignificance | faire pâle figure | |
| (en) Even George W Bush's epically disastrous war in Iraq pales into significance (def) to appear less large or important when compared with something else |
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| 231 | to forestall | devancer | |
| (en) Officials hope physical distancing will slow the spread of the disease and forestall the possibility of running out of ventilators and hospital beds | |||
| 232 | dodgy | douteux, risqué, louche | |
| (en) Australians warned of dodgy 'home' Covid-19 test kits | |||
| 233 | to veer | tourner, virer, changer de cap | |
| (en) The president veered from grim warnings to baseless assurances in a news conference, predicting a surging death toll | |||
| 234 | to pummel | frapper | |
| (en) Coronavirus has pummeled a Brooklyn hospital and its patients (en) In the past decade, Pakistan has been pummeled with natural disasters and societal turmoil. |
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| 235 | in a bind | dans une impasse | |
| (en) The stranded students have put Beijing in a bind | |||
| 236 | interment | inhumation | |
| (en) Crematories have extended their hours and worked into the night, and city officials are looking for temporary interment sites elsewhere in the state | |||
| 237 | fraught | stressant, tendu | |
| (en) This was the week when public pleas for national unity from ministers were accompanied by increasingly fraught exchanges in Whitehall, as ministers, scientific advisers and officials confronted the reality of an unprecedented emergency developing at incredible speed | |||
| 238 | avoir des répercussions sur qch | etwas in Mitleidenschaft ziehen | |
| (de) Das Virus zieht in Spanien vor allem die Regionen Madrid und Katalonien in Mitleidenschaft | |||
| 239 | paisible, sans nuage | ungetrübt | |
| (de) Ungetrübte Sonne und frühsommerliche Temperaturen | |||
| 240 | lead-footed | qui a le pied lourd | |
| (def) slow, boring, dull or stupid, tending to drive too fast | |||