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The idea to post cameras in crime plagued neighborhoods is a good one, but their conspicuousness is a problem, so Police Superintendent Jody Weis is proposing to add new covert cameras so small they fit inside a matchbox, the Sun-Times reports.

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"That's the kind of conspicuousness we all object to," commented Peyton;

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Recent research has identified conspicuousness as a key strategic defense against predators.

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The reverse order is equally standard, though, especially when conspicuousness is desired.

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She feigned love for my children the way only Iranian nannies do with shameless conspicuousness that may be partially fake but is comforting nonetheless.

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And ever since Biblical times or earlier? when a trader has got a rep for selling a fast cheap deal to shallow conspicuousness-seekers, somebody else has probably come along and countered by selling "authenticity."

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The ecological process of birds preying on moths based on their relative conspicuousness is exactly the same in the two examples.

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This difference is due to a difference in their conspicuousness to birds as they rest on the trunks of trees.

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If for no other reason than its conspicuousness, this dramatic increase has become the surest symbol of an inefficient, far flung, gas - hogging food system, one that's hooked on fossil fuels, wedded to maximized production, and begging for reform.

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Private jet marketing explicitly emphasizes the elite status and conspicuousness of this consumption.

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