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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of organic compounds resulting from the condensation reaction of hydrazine and two carbonyl groups.
- noun A six-membered heterocyclic compound, such as pyridine, that contains one or more atoms of nitrogen with a ring structure resembling that of benzene.
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- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of
organic compounds , having thegeneral formula R2C=NN=CR2, produced by the action of acarbonyl compound withhydrazine .
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Examples
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The Time “Rag-azine” cover you mention says it all …
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I had thought that maybe I just got smart and the rag-azine had always been dumb.
Perils of SETI 2008
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It's interesting to see a snapshot of the comic world 15 years ago even if it's a distorted one, through the hype-azine... i mean magazine's lense; at least that has remained the same since then .
What was up with Wizard: October 1992 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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If I wanted a People/Us-azine, I would have purchased one (fat chance).
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F or these pioneers of psychiatric research and early practitioners of family therapy, Th or azine and other psychotropic medications never were, and never are, the honest to God scientific way to treat a problem.
Bush Derangement Syndrome; Brilliant Theory, Faulty Premise 2003
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He extracted a mag azine clipping and thrust it at Rome.
Rome's Revenge Craven, Sara 2001
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The Comfortmobile is having a CAT scan and Thor-azine injections at a local garage.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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It was at this time that a Question was asked in the House of Commons about public money being spent on a "pornographic" mag - azine and it seemed for a while that we would lose the grant.
Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984
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In fact, thought Roskill, he looked rather like a solitary, oversized waxwork which had been stolen from Madame Tussaud's and then abandoned to become a pedestrian obstacle: he stood unmoving, engrossed in a dull-looking, stiff-covered mag; azine, oblivious of the passers-by who eddied round him and of the traffic which accelerated past his nose.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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DeMott (“The Age of Overkill,” New York Times Mag - azine, May 19, 1968) has called “the mindless cycle of super taunts” so characteristic of our own time of
SATIRE ALVIN B. KERNAN 1968
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