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A man with a knee-high to a sewer-residing amoeba's approval rating who is now a hated joke amongst the American people due in large part to his own string of idiot pronouncements.

“The Mouth That Roared” 2008

A man with a knee-high to a sewer-residing amoeba's approval rating who is now a hated joke amongst the American people due in large part to his own string of idiot pronouncements.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

This train of thought is ten thousand feet above the amoeba's mental landscape.

Liz Ryan: Skirting the Resume Black Hole 2009

It's found everywhere, and amoeba's the single - cell parasite.

CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2007 2007

'At 0600 hours the general's ulcers began bleeding and now I think an amoeba's involved.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

Many variations, many forms of adaptation to its background are possible to an organism, including the possibility of existing for a while in a crippled, disabled or diseased condition, but the fundamental alternative of its existence remains the same: if an organism fails in the basic functions required by its nature-if an amoeba's protoplasm stops assimilating food, or if a man's heart stops beating'the organism dies.

The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961

The fact is, every part of the amoeba's body apparently possesses, in a very vague form, the first beginnings of those senses which in us are specialised and confined to a single spot.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

If it cannot get hold of outside matter, or cannot proselytise [sic] that matter and persuade it to see things through its own (the amoeba's) spectacles-if it cannot convert that matter, if the matter persists in disagreeing with it-its spirits droop, its soul is disquieted within it, it becomes listless like a withering flower-it languishes and dies.

God the Known and God the Unknown Samuel Butler 1868

One place where engineers did a bit better: the amoeba's networks were not as robust as the actual rail network.

Ars Technica 2010

(The syllabode/octopode thing made me think of an amoeba's pseudopod, the plural of which is usually pseudopodia.)

Wired Campus 2010