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“Most borrowed author James Patterson photographed by Rankin for RandomHouse writes today, Catherine Cookson, for years the most borrowed writer, has been comprehensively overshadowed by the giants of American popular fiction.”
“So pervasive is shampoo that even Hindi has taken it as a term borrowed from English to refer to the hair-cleaning product, while the older Hindi word champi continues to mean “a massage,” including a massage of the head.”
“No net loss" is a term borrowed from the vocabulary of wetland conservation, and allows for replacement of lost assets with equivalent resources.”
The Huffington Post: Charles R. Wolfe: Assuring Sustainable Third Places in the City
“When board discussion gets bogged down rehashing issues, he says, he tries to prod things along with an expression borrowed from a Chinese associate: "We're frying the same rice.”
The Wall Street Journal: In the Heart of the Rust Belt, Chinese Funds Provide the Grease
“Like Charles Manson, the criminal he admired, Pell exuded a dark charisma and attracted a group of devoted and fanatical followers, whom he called his “Family”—a term borrowed from the Manson clan—and over whom he exercised absolute control.”
“The Writings, more generally known by a title borrowed from the Greek Fathers,”
“The Greek protesters called themselves "Indignant Citizens" - a label borrowed from their Madrid counterparts, known as "los indignados" the indignant.”
“His argument revolves around the OSC's practice of issuing defendants what lawyers call a "Wells notice," which is a term borrowed from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's procedures.”
“The conical nose of the Pelamis, a name borrowed from the yellow-bellied sea snake, looks menacingly like a missile on land.”
The Guardian: SNP hopes a new wave can carry Scotland to independence
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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