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  • adjective Of or relating to an aquarium.

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Examples

  • If you've seen the film, you know the juxtaposition of the Port-O-San man and the legions of concertgoers at the Woodstock "aquarian exposition" makes for a charming if not bizarre moment.

    At Woodstock, there was plenty of peace & music—but few toilets 2009

  • If you've seen the film, you know the juxtaposition of the Port-O-San man and the legions of concertgoers at the Woodstock "aquarian exposition" makes for a charming if not bizarre moment.

    At Woodstock, there was plenty of peace & music—but few toilets 2009

  • No, not the Edwards who cheated on his dying wife, impregnated his campaign age of aquarian documentarian, and hid from reporters in the hotel bathroom before coming 99.9% clean.

    I'm getting pretty tired of waiting for Obama to announce his VP pick. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The siblings, raised in the bucolic idealism of a Saskatchewan hippie commune, are suddenly forced to reckon with the cruel shallowness and hypocrisy of “Legoland”- the name given to the modern world by their aquarian parents.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Theatre review: Legoland 2008

  • The surface moral of the story, about the perils of eternal life, is fairly obvious, but in a thread about the sorcerer's half-aquarian daughter, Pratt touches on a deeper current of feeling and fear about aging.

    Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Tim Pratt Karen Burnham 2007

  • The surface moral of the story, about the perils of eternal life, is fairly obvious, but in a thread about the sorcerer's half-aquarian daughter, Pratt touches on a deeper current of feeling and fear about aging.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Karen Burnham 2007

  • Many people know about my distaste for “creative” sushi – an overly muscular behemoth of rice bristling with decidedly non-Japanese sushi ingredients like steak, cream cheese, tomatoes, and jalapenos with names like Crunchy Cowboy, Godzilla, and Firecracker Fantasy that sound more appropriate for an aquarian battle of American Gladiators than a sushi menu.

    Asian Fusion is So Last Decade - Christina's Potato Salad 2006

  • Many people know about my distaste for “creative” sushi – an overly muscular behemoth of rice bristling with decidedly non-Japanese sushi ingredients like steak, cream cheese, tomatoes, and jalapenos with names like Crunchy Cowboy, Godzilla, and Firecracker Fantasy that sound more appropriate for an aquarian battle of American Gladiators than a sushi menu.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The aquarian enthusiast is very apt to be in too great haste to see everything going on, and commits the common error of trying too many things at once.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • At the extreme low-water of new or full moon tides, the rocks and tide-pools are to be zealously hunted over by the aquarian naturalist.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

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