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Surligner

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Highlight
I would like to highlight the point

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Une violation

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A breach

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Diverse

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Miscellaneous

The room was full of miscellaneous objects.

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Une piste

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A trail
We ‘re following several trails. One will be winner

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Autoriser, habiliter, renforcer

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Empower

The boss empowered his employees to make decisions.

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Certes

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Admittedly

Admittedly there’s still a lot of work to do but the fact is that we’re moving forward

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Pendant la nuit

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Overnight
I worked overnight so i’m exhausted

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La volonte

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The willingness

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Global

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Overall

An overall demand

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Se produire, survenir

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To occur
What time the incident occured ?

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Ralentir

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Slow down

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Complexe

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Intricate
The results of the mission depends on intricate things which are not under our controls

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Sans surprise

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Unsurprisingly

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Davantage

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Further

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Perturber

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Disrupt

A traffic jam disrupted the traffic on the road.

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Freiner, réduire, limiter

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To Curb, curbed, curbed

I would like to curb damages

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L’augmentation => augmenter fortement

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The surge => to surge

Registrations surged after the university’s marketing campaign.

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La dependance

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The reliance

There’s a reliance between the means we set up and the result we get

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Submerger

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To overwhelm

Don’t let it overwhelm you with work

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Deliberement, volonterairement => delibere

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Wilfully

He acted willfully => a willfull act

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Faire des ravages

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Wreak havoc

This kind of awkward management wreaks havoc in the teams

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Evident

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Obvious

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Reduire

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To Cut back
If we cut back the delay

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Important

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Significant
I would like you understand how it is significant for me

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Les points cles

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The key takeaways

Could we proofread the key takeaways before the end of the meeting ?

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Des informations précieuses

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Valuable insights

Looking at progress across areas offers valuable insights.

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Reperer, identifier

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Pinpoint

They tried to pinpoint the source of the signal.

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Maux de tete

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Headaches

This two hours boring meetings gave me an terrible headaches

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Exploiter

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Harness

We must harness the potential of this idea.

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Etiqueter

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Label

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Intimidant

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Daunting

The task is rather daunting for a beginner.

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Comprendre

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Figure out

I figured out why the experiment was not working.

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Pour le dire en un mot

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To tell in a nutshell

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Pratique

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Handy

i think it’s more handy to do thinks like that

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De maniere progressive

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In phased manner

The house of my dream will be built in a phased manner

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Le dimensionnement

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The sizing

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Precedemment

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Earlier, previously

I ‘ve asking for help a little bit earlier but without success

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Moindre

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Lesser
it’s a lesser evil

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Du jour au lendemain

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Overnight
we are not going to find a solution overnight

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La privation (de sommeil)

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Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation causes disease

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Correspondre

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Match up

The two declarations has to match up to be coherent

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Etonner

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To astound

In Norway, I saw views that astounded me

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Briser

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Break apart
He broke appart the glasse

44
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Recueillir, recolter

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Reap

With this promotion, I reaped the benefits of my efforts.

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Le traitement en temps reel

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Real Time processing

For this use case it’s imperative that data are being real time processing

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La pertinence

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The relevance

The relevance of these questions is obvious.

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Tirer

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Pull
Is it better to get information by pulling or pushing ?

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En premier lieu, avant tout

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Foremost

Our fundamental goal is first and foremost to move towards a safer world.

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Tant bien que mal, d’une certaine maniere

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Somehow
Somehow we have to finish today

50
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un casse tete

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A headeach
Find a solution before the deadline it’s truly a headeach

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