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  • So-called cookies are packets of friendly-sounding but controversial electronically dispatched data routinely sent by search engines or internet service providers to track activity on individual computers.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • So-called cookies are packets of friendly-sounding but controversial electronically dispatched data routinely sent by search engines or internet service providers to track activity on individual computers.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • So-called intentional communities, such as the communes of the 1960s, are often founded on the assumption that they might.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • So-called "voter integrity" efforts often have a more sinister motive -- suppressing votes in Democratic leaning precincts, which often means areas where there are a lot of minority voters.

    The voter fraud racket is back! Adam Serwer 2010

  • So-called superinjunctions—under which not only the enjoiner's identity, but the very fact of the injunction's existence is secret—originally came into use to protect litigants whose lives would be in danger if confidential information were made public.

    Rule by Gag 2011

  • So-called traditional religious values were the last slim justification for denying some Americans the constitutional right to marry.

    Nancy L. Cohen: On Gay Marriage, American Values of Fairness Trump Conservative Hypocrisy Nancy L. Cohen 2011

  • So-called traditional religious values were the last slim justification for denying some Americans the constitutional right to marry.

    Nancy L. Cohen: On Gay Marriage, American Values of Fairness Trump Conservative Hypocrisy Nancy L. Cohen 2011

  • So-called ancillary revenue, from add-ons including bag fees, rose by $25 million, to $118 million for the quarter.

    US Airways reports much narrower Q1 loss 2010

  • So-called traditional religious values were the last slim justification for denying some Americans the constitutional right to marry.

    Nancy L. Cohen: On Gay Marriage, American Values of Fairness Trump Conservative Hypocrisy Nancy L. Cohen 2011

  • So-called "superinjunctions" not only grant anonymity to the plaintiff, but also prevent the press from reporting the injunction exists.

    U.K. Gag Orders Judged Overused Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

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