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  • Stop hating & call it both ways … Look at Nate: B, S, lil J, V, the married cougar, Bree Buckley … what would be “scandalous” on the Upper East Side if they were all in commited relationships?!

    'Gossip Girl' recap: Dan, Olivia, and Vanessa get REEEEAAAAALLLLY close | EW.com 2009

  • Link joe biden, is a gaffe machine. i remain commited to hillary clinton. she would have been able to bring this country together. i believe she is not done yet. do not rule her out. john mc cain will be the next president. — deborah

    Reaction in Scranton to Biden News - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Of course, I myself am an example of the complexity of this: If my partner and I were of the same sex, we would not be married, but we would still be in a long-term commited monogamous sexual relationship.

    Reactions to the 11 ballot measures 2004

  • The Right’s constant harping that if only people at X or Y were armed a given crime couldn’t have been commited is just fantasy.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Conservative Terror Timeline 2010

  • If you have over-commited, that is for you to fix, not the Australian taxpayers.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • The question is, can you risk losing 1 seconds worth of "commited".

    Planet MySQL 2009

  • There are others however who may well have "commited" Mundane SF but who have also produced great works far from its shores: Michael Swanwick's industrial fantasy masterpiece The Iron Dragon's Daughter; Bruce Sterling's postmodern slipstream novel Zeitgeist; Philip Dick's gnostic novels such as VALIS that certainly don't engage with the world through science; Aldiss and Ballard's many stories from the New Wave period that explicitly reject the precursor to Mundane SF; Ryman's own work of magical realism, Was.

    Rules And Mundanity 2005

  • "Only if they're not commited sic 100% to winning the Race," Keoghan wrote, without naming names.

    CBS Tweet Week: What Amazing Race Teams Get on Phil Keoghan's Nerves? 2011

  • Otherwise from the other offenses this guy commited [home invasion?!] it sounds like he'll be in jail for quite some time without this charge anyway.

    Michigan Hunter Rescued, Then Charged 2009

  • Otherwise from the other offenses this guy commited [home invasion?!] it sounds like he'll be in jail for quite some time without this charge anyway.

    Michigan Hunter Rescued, Then Charged 2009

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