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  • That magazine, which I used to borrow eagerly, has long since degenerated into a chamber pot of Belligerent and Tendentious.

    Perils of SETI 2008

  • Tendentious scholarly writing, defined by a previous version of the MLA Style, requires that ellipses added by the writer be signaled with brackets: [...].

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The Zone Rodrigo Pla, Mexico: Tendentious but nonetheless intriguing and nuanced story of a Mexico City gated community, a ticked-off cop, and a scared thief in way over his head.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • Tendentious games hoping to stir debate probably will.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • UPDATE II: Anyone with doubts about how journalistically corrupt the numerous news articles written by the very same Bill Keller, when he was a NYT reporter, in which he applied the Tendentious P.C. term "torture" to interrogation techniques used by the Soviet Union despite the fact that the Soviet government insisted that such techniques were not

    OpEdNews 2010

  • Tendentious, because the British government would have regulated in all sorts of areas even if we did not belong to the EU, and because not all regulation has benefits that can be directly costed.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • Tendentious studies trying to prove "brand lift" from ads even when they don't seem to convert?

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tendentious studies trying to prove "brand lift" from ads even when they don't seem to convert?

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tendentious studies trying to prove "brand lift" from ads even when they don't seem to convert?

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tendentious studies trying to prove "brand lift" from ads even when they don't seem to convert?

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

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