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Examples
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Environment news from Olly Winkles: What's with everyone flying everywhere on deadline day?
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Have we become a nation of Rip Van Winkles or Rip Vans who rinkle the truth?
Welcome to the Tea Party: Rand Paul follows in father's footsteps 2010
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Not only do former at-home parents land like real-life Rip van Winkles in a strange new world of technology, team dynamics, office fashion and water-cooler talk at the office, but they must simultaneously renegotiate their relationships at home, with spouses and kids.
When Getting the Job Is the Easy Part Sue Shellenbarger 2010
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Those idyllic times ended at least one-hundred years ago, leaving some economic Rip van Winkles behind.
Vladimir A. Masch: The Rest of the (Economic) Story Vladimir A. Masch 2010
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I don't know when I've seen anything funnier than his staging of the swordfight between Viola (Merritt Janson) and the fatuous Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Ryan Winkles), a piece of slapstick so precisely calculated and perfectly realized that it comes close to stopping the show.
What's Up, Bard? 2009
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Blitzer, in this case, merely a pathetic surrogate for ALL the Rip van Winkles on the air and in print now.
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But that blog just makes me smile, especially, for some reason, the idea of "King Winkles."
A moot court day. Ann Althouse 2005
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Winkles but against the Food, and not so much against the Food as against the unfortunate Bensington, whom from the very first the popular imagination had insisted upon regarding as the sole and only person responsible for this new thing.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Winkles came to Redwood and showed him an insulting letter.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Winkles, very profoundly, and walked to the hearth-rug.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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