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The billionaire founder of tech companies Adaytum and Anaplan has been vocal about New Zealand’s poor economic performance in the past decade and says the country needs stability and a long-term plan.
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The word for today is… prodigious (adjective) - 1: causing amazement or wonder 2: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree : enormous 3a: resembling or befitting a prodigy : strange, unusual b obsolete : being an omen : portentous Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Prodigious, monstrous, tremendous, and stupendous all mean extremely impressive. Prodigious suggests marvelousness
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And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.