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  • Above the Sputnik second-hand store, Boston bar (28B Laugavegur, 354-517-7816) is a cliqueish hangout for Iceland's artists and entrepreneurs (whose English bests most Americans').

    Take Monday Off: Iceland Dennis K. Berman 2011

  • "He quickly worked out that the music industry was very hard to break into, very cliqueish, so he made his money recording and pressing people's records, just providing a service for the people of Cleveland."

    Homemade soul: the musical legacy of the Boddie Recording Company 2011

  • He is perfectly capable of taking on the craven whisperers, raising the level of behavior beyond teen dynamics, neutering the effect of old cliqueish alliances, and demonstrating rare and much needed adult leadership.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Slams Hillary For Reports Of Dirt-Mongering 2009

  • If you do it right, the P-I will be the nexus of a news network that covers general and niche stories, one that has professional journalists working alongside kids with camera phones to serve the public good, one that promotes the good writers but also is not cliqueish and open to any and all readers.

    Requiem For A Newspaper, Part II: The Road To Online | Seattle Metblogs 2009

  • He is perfectly capable of taking on the craven whisperers, raising the level of behavior beyond teen dynamics, neutering the effect of old cliqueish alliances, and demonstrating rare and much needed adult leadership.

    Obama Slams Hillary For Reports Of Dirt-Mongering 2009

  • I have been taking a quiet amble through The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby's latest and an accumulation of columns he wrote for a US magazine (cliqueish according to Boyd T).

    The Complete Polysyllabic Bunfight 2006

  • I have been taking a quiet amble through The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby's latest and an accumulation of columns he wrote for a US magazine (cliqueish according to Boyd T).

    The Complete Polysyllabic Bunfight 2006

  • "Real" life is no more unfair, cliqueish, competitive, back-biting, frustrating and claustrophobic than college.

    Craig Lucas: Leaving Your Artistic Legacy 2008

  • I have been taking a quiet amble through The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby's latest and an accumulation of columns he wrote for a US magazine (cliqueish according to Boyd T).

    52 entries from October 2006 2006

  • It didn't help that in a cliqueish town, Ryder no longer had the "right" friends.

    Reality Bites 2007

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