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  • (I have always said that the national motto should be changed from "E Pluribus Unum" to the Latin Phrase for "Money Talks.")

    Don't fence me in David 2008

  • See the section labeled “Document Annotation for Improved Ranking” in Phrase-based indexing in an information retrieval system.

    The Greatest Living American? Stephen Colbert??? 2007

  • A group at the University of Essex put together an entertaining new Web game called Phrase Detectives to help develop new materials for cutting-edge research into this basic problem of language.

    Archive 2008-10-01 josh 2008

  • A group at the University of Essex put together an entertaining new Web game called Phrase Detectives to help develop new materials for cutting-edge research into this basic problem of language.

    Become a Phrase Detective: A new, massive Internet-based language project josh 2008

  • [Sidenote: Eloquucion] _Eloquucion_, which the Greekes call Phrase, whereof also the name of eloquence dothe ryse, as of al partes it is the goodlyest, so also is it the most profitable and hardeste: in the whyche is seene that diuine myghte and vertue of an oratoure, whych as Cicero in hys oratorie particions defineth, is nothyng else but wisedom speakyng eloquently.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • A Phrase is a short expression like, in vain, in fine, in short, to be sure, &c.

    Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Charles Winslow 1861

  • A Blogger Coins a Phrase and Galvanizes Russian Discontent @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.

    NYT > Home Page By ELLEN BARRY 2011

  • A Blogger Coins a Phrase and Galvanizes Russian Discontent @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.

    NYT > Global Home By ELLEN BARRY 2011

  • The most free Person of Quality, in Mr. Courtly's Phrase, that is, to speak properly, a Woman of Figure who has forgot her Birth and Breeding, dishonoured her Relations and her self, abandoned her Virtue and

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • It's also then worthwhile to take advantage of tracking tools and review which long tail phrases have converted and make appropriate content for them, add these terms to your Keyword Phrase target list.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

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