in order
Ready, prepared; orderly; tidy.
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Every right secured by peaceful protest gets taken away. In order to secure permanent rights, there must be dire consequences for those who would strip them away. Dire. Consequences.
✨ The UCC Board has called for a special meeting of the Thirty-fifth General Synod, in order to elect the next Associate General Minister, Love of Church. 📺 All are invited to share in this special moment, as we li…
He wants to "leave his mark" on history. And he's such a malignant narcissist he LITERALLY doesn't care who dies in order for him to achieve it.
Fun thing I learned: tying vector data directly to image output in Blender blows up pretty badly. Needed to do this first in order to get it to not be treated as a black and white image for some reason
i don't think you have to "separate the art from the artist" in order to continue ethically consuming media made by bad people
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Ready, prepared; orderly; tidy.
Some teachers find it hard to keep their classes in order.
“Every right secured by peaceful protest gets taken away. In order to secure permanent rights, there must be dire consequences for those who would strip them away. Dire. Consequences.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“✨ The UCC Board has called for a special meeting of the Thirty-fifth General Synod, in order to elect the next Associate General Minister, Love of Church. 📺 All are invited to share in this special moment, as we live stream this event on YouTube: https://ow.ly/HwLt50YUy3C”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i don't think you have to "separate the art from the artist" in order to continue ethically consuming media made by bad people”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's in order to make us, as a whole, weaker and easier to control. JFK might think he's doing "right", but he's doing the bidding of the wanna-be overlords.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I worked on this project in 2018 or so, it was all on paper only and was being pitched everywhere in order to secure massive funding.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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In a sequence.
Place the cards in order by color, then by number.
“He wants to "leave his mark" on history. And he's such a malignant narcissist he LITERALLY doesn't care who dies in order for him to achieve it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Fun thing I learned: tying vector data directly to image output in Blender blows up pretty badly. Needed to do this first in order to get it to not be treated as a black and white image for some reason”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Taylor Swift fan accounts who follow back everyone immediately may be subject to a temporary hold on your ability to feel things publicly in order to maintain plausible deniability about what this fandom has done.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“*sigh* When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail. Looks like the RBA want to trigger a recession to drive up unemployment, in order to reduce inflation.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Have there been issues in Xinjiang that have been blown out of proportion, as things usually are; by the west? For sure, in order to paint a far more cruel picture than reality, as they do with any country that won't bend the knee.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(idiomatic, formal) In accordance with the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.
I wish I could get my desk in order.
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