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  • The artist'll also work up custom pieces from sketches/photos, from full-figured animals in almost any pose, to Steadman-esque works including a dog-like creature with a wildly wagging tongue known as The Urge -- act on yours in the woods and you'll get totally laidARRRGGGGGHHH!

    Thrillist: Jason Tennant Sculpture: Snarling Wolf Masks For Your Wall Thrillist 2011

  • Inc. Those ventures were known as Urge and Rhapsody America, respectively.

    Warner Music Taps MTV to Handle Online Ads With Its Videos 2010

  • I looked into Urge, which is built into the Windows media player, and was hugely impressed with the breadth of their catalogue; this is the only site where I could find one of Tipper Gore's favorite albums, Be My Slave by Bitch.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Jeff 2007

  • I looked into Urge, which is built into the Windows media player, and was hugely impressed with the breadth of their catalogue; this is the only site where I could find one of Tipper Gore's favorite albums, Be My Slave by Bitch.

    Music download mania. Jeff 2007

  • Slap her into the slammer for contempt of congress and "Urge" her to shut the hell-up!

    Bagnolo, Waxman VS. Rice 2007

  • The show finds its stride with "Urge," a wall sculpture that is equal parts gorgeous and threatening.

    NashvilleScene.com 2009

  • What about Europe "Urge" US to open the border with Mexico.

    Boston.com Most Popular 2009

  • "Urge" section also includes a brilliant talk by Karen Siderman, who created this toolkit, doing a case study of ... you guessed it ...

    Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative 2009

  • One dictionary defines that word as: “Urge, presume home (argument, demand); impose (action, conduct upon person); compel observance of.”

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • But the first one brings home to people what a pain in the ass raising a kid can be, so a lot of people stop after one, or maybe two -- enough to satisfy the Pet Urge, but not enough to bankrupt you sending them to college.

    Who Wants More Kids?, Part II, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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