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  • The giant scarlet "Ns" that plaster vehicles (usually pickups) or wave from front-porch flags can't be missed.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories 2009

  • "Beny," but surviving relatives say he took his nickname in honor of Benny Goodman.) "People will get into fist fights over the 'Ns' in his name," says Radanovich.

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  • "Beny," but surviving relatives say he took his nickname in honor of Benny Goodman.) "People will get into fist fights over the 'Ns' in his name," says Radanovich.

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  • I have long been a fan of the "real" Dianne de Poitiers and have seen her signature with 2 Ns, just like me!

    bapteme - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "The M and the Ns in the new logo are meant to look like Indian architecture," Parti said.

    Monsoon founder bags £16m after fashion chain defies downturn 2011

  • What happened, basically, was that I woke up one day with a dull ache in my gut that told me, in no uncertain terms, that I was in fact nothing, a nobody going nowhere the three “existential Ns” of every man's existence, if you will.

    An Account of my Dwelling (for Kamo no Chômei) Marc Lowe 2011

  • Psychologist and acclaimed author, Dr. Melanie Joy calls this invisible belief system "carnism" and points out that "There is a vast mythology surrounding eating animals, but all myths fall in one way or another under the Three Ns of Justification: eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary."

    Nil Zacharias: Like Animals? So Why Eat Them? Nil Zacharias 2011

  • We then raced through various other random Vs – Vichy, Verdun, Vauban and Vaudémont – though not before going off piste into the Ns for Nancy, the Ms for the Mistral font, the Ls for Lorraine, the As for Alsace and the Ts for Les Trentes Glorieuses.

    TV review: The Crusades | Jonathan Meades on France 2012

  • Psychologist and acclaimed author, Dr. Melanie Joy calls this invisible belief system "carnism" and points out that "There is a vast mythology surrounding eating animals, but all myths fall in one way or another under the Three Ns of Justification: eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary."

    Nil Zacharias: Like Animals? So Why Eat Them? Nil Zacharias 2011

  • The Office of War Information placed its posters into five categories — the five Ns:• The nature of our Allies.

    Rare World War II posters bring history alive 2011

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