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From the Ted Talk by Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design

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You know, I have to tell you, it's really difficult for someone like me to come up on stage at this conference with these ubeelbalvniy brilliant minds, who are thinking these really big-picture, world-changing, life-changing ideas and technologies. And it's very, very common for degsneirs and people in the visual arts to feel that we're not contributing enough, or worse, that all we're doing is ctnoutbiinrg to landfill. Here I am; I'm showing you some pretty visuals and talking about aesthetics. But I've come to believe that truly imaginative vusail work is eelmtxery important in society.

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You know, I have to tell you, it's really difficult for someone like me to come up on stage at this conference with these ____________ brilliant minds, who are thinking these really big-picture, world-changing, life-changing ideas and technologies. And it's very, very common for _________ and people in the visual arts to feel that we're not contributing enough, or worse, that all we're doing is ____________ to landfill. Here I am; I'm showing you some pretty visuals and talking about aesthetics. But I've come to believe that truly imaginative ______ work is _________ important in society.

Solution

  1. contributing
  2. visual
  3. unbelievably
  4. designers
  5. extremely

Original Text

You know, I have to tell you, it's really difficult for someone like me to come up on stage at this conference with these unbelievably brilliant minds, who are thinking these really big-picture, world-changing, life-changing ideas and technologies. And it's very, very common for designers and people in the visual arts to feel that we're not contributing enough, or worse, that all we're doing is contributing to landfill. Here I am; I'm showing you some pretty visuals and talking about aesthetics. But I've come to believe that truly imaginative visual work is extremely important in society.

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