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The hypersecrecy and swashbuckling aura of the Central Intelligence Agency have always earned unwarranted deference from presidents and Congress toward what is, in reality, a largely deskbound and often error-prone bureaucracy.
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Charles Homans, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Sittenfeld even draws us into the deskbound process of writing and editing a script — activities that seem inherently undramatic but become, in her telling, the stuff of great excitement.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
Even with its Intel millstone, Apple managed a regular October event, typically for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, with a quiet late November moment for the deskbound Mac family - was achieved.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023
Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.
—New York Times, 24 May 2022
Crystal City neighborhood are better known for deskbound defense contractors than for SWAT-style stunts performed outside.
—Washington Post, 7 May 2022
Its worth noting that the Surface Pro tablets are still built around the deskbound environment of Windows 10 that has been evolving since the dawn of Windows.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 17 May 2021
The new study, which involved almost half a million workers, finds that people whose jobs involve frequent moving and lifting tend to live longer than those whose occupations are deskbound.
—Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
In this fuller analysis, men who were active at work developed heart disease and cancer at lower rates than deskbound men.
—Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
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Charles Homans, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Sittenfeld even draws us into the deskbound process of writing and editing a script — activities that seem inherently undramatic but become, in her telling, the stuff of great excitement.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
Even with its Intel millstone, Apple managed a regular October event, typically for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, with a quiet late November moment for the deskbound Mac family - was achieved.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023
Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.
—New York Times, 24 May 2022
Crystal City neighborhood are better known for deskbound defense contractors than for SWAT-style stunts performed outside.
—Washington Post, 7 May 2022
Its worth noting that the Surface Pro tablets are still built around the deskbound environment of Windows 10 that has been evolving since the dawn of Windows.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 17 May 2021
The new study, which involved almost half a million workers, finds that people whose jobs involve frequent moving and lifting tend to live longer than those whose occupations are deskbound.
—Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
In this fuller analysis, men who were active at work developed heart disease and cancer at lower rates than deskbound men.
—Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
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“Deskbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deskbound. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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