ACT English: Concision

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in this regard

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to

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This allowed the cave-creating process to be a process that repeated at different depths hundreds of feet apart.

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repeat at different depths.

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Unbricking a kiln after a firing is like a person uncovering buried treasure.

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Over many weeks, as time goes by, her collection slowly grows: clay bowls, cups, vases, and sculptures fill the studio.

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She then carries the assortment outside to the wood-fired kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery to a hardness and transform glazes to glorious colors that drying alone won't achieve.

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a brick structure

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He also began to calculate annual tables of yearly sets of astronomical data, which became the basis for almanacs published under his name from 1792 through 1797

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Scientists have collected them from the Yellowstone National Park's thermal pools, the park abounding with geysers like Old Faithful, and from radioactive rock deep within South African gold mines.

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pools

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It is September, and some of the trees are starting to blush red and orange at their tips.

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NO CHANGE

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The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.

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