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  • Giants 'Bumgarner in Rarefied October Air Getty Images Madison Bumgarner Just how impressive was Giants rookie pitcher Madison Bumgarner in Game 4 of the World Series?

    Heard on the Field 2010

  • Tillamook the patchwork, where Rarefied teaches Empathy its rainbow, a reason to go for the fringe.

    Peter Graves Is A Mad, Mad March Blimp Captain Dennis Mahagin 2011

  • The Mountain West Enjoys Rarefied Air Reuters Kawhi Leonard #15 of the San Diego State Aztecs While the Big East has struggled to live up to expectations in the NCAA tournament, at least one conference is finally getting it done: the Mountain West.

    Heard on the Field 2011

  • Rarefied design inferences tell us nothing that can be inductively generalized.

    Robert Camp:Can Intelligent Design be considered scientific in the same way that SETI is? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Rarefied and desirable, but too stuffy to be worshipped.

    Coolest Cult Cars 2006

  • Rarefied inferences, be they of design or of evolution, are not our bag, baby.

    How to Disprove Evolution? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Rarefied to evanescent currents of emotional and sensuous out-breathings, the spirit of the race exhaled itself in song from human throats, in melody on lute and viol, until the whole of Europe thrilled with the marvel and the mystery of this new language of the soul.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Rarefied Airs | Apple's Macbook Air line got a beefy upgrade, with Thunderbolt ports and Sandy Bridge processors.

    Gizmodo 2011

  • Terry Maketa has issued a press release offering all media an opportunity to review the documents - $340 worth - that the Rarefied air

    Colorado Springs Independent letters@csindy.com 2010

  • If we would know why the same Body seems greater (without adding to it) one time, than another; they say, when it seems lesse, it is Condensed; when greater, Rarefied.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

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