What I discovered about sunflower seeds then, and continue to love about them now, is that, as with many worthwhile things, they are about the process, as much an activity as a food.
Sunflower Seeds Are the Best Snack for the Anxious Mind|Emma Alpern|September 17, 2020|Eater
This helped confirm economic activity in the third-quarter has greatly surprised to the upside.
Global stocks tumble as the Fed’s ‘near-zero’ rates pledge leaves investors unsatisfied|Bernhard Warner|September 17, 2020|Fortune
For participating in activities like swimming and yoga and completing health screenings and immunizations, users can earn a maximum of around $280 over the program’s two-year run.
One country is now paying citizens to exercise with their Apple Watch|Naomi Xu Elegant|September 16, 2020|Fortune
Noonan said his wife, a hairstylist, monitors the online activity of their daughters more closely than he does, and that their work is often a topic of conversation when the family convenes in the evening.
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter|Isaac Stanley-Becker|September 15, 2020|Washington Post
He has also resisted changing the computer models, they said, including adding new types of data that’s standard at other firms such as tracking oil tankers and credit card activity.
The losses continue to pile up for hedge fund king Ray Dalio|Bernhard Warner|September 15, 2020|Fortune
For me, I just like the activity, and the activity just happens to make money.
The Gospel According to Nick Denton—What Next For The Gawker Founder?|Lloyd Grove|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Power generation and production is not the sort of activity one usually associates with skiing.
Solar Powered Ski Lift|The Daily Beast|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If a person looks like they are alive, but their brain shows no signs of activity, is this person dead or alive?
What It’s Like to Wake Up Dead|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Tej Azad|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is also overwhelmingly pro-regime, and since the start of Syrian unrest the region has become a hotbed of pro-Assad activity.
Welcome to Assadville, USA|Christopher Moraff|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The play of Sunday, the play of being angels in the choir, is not just a peripheral secondary marginal realm of activity.
Joseph Campbell on the Roots of Halloween|Joseph Campbell|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Thus one aims at, say, a rabbit; what he wants is to shoot straight: a certain kind of activity.
Democracy and Education|John Dewey
Joshua's activity during the last years of his life forms an important part of the history of his times.
History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6)|Heinrich Graetz
But his activity at this period was directed to a different aim than that of the former one.
Mystics and Saints of Islam|Claud Field
It is to ascertain the meaning of present activities and to secure, so far as possible, a present activity with a unified meaning.
Human Nature and Conduct|John Dewey
Its activity was quite marvellous, and it was very playful and elegant in its motions.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon|Robert A. Sterndale
British Dictionary definitions for activity
activity
/ (ækˈtɪvɪtɪ) /
nounplural-ties
the state or quality of being active
lively action or movement
any specific deed, action, pursuit, etcrecreational activities
the number of disintegrations of a radioactive substance in a given unit of time, usually expressed in curies or disintegrations per second
the capacity of a substance to undergo chemical change
the effective concentration of a substance in a chemical system. The absolute activity of a substance B, λ B, is defined as exp (μ BRT) where μ B is the chemical potential
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