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  • noun Plural form of deformation.

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Examples

  • The men responsible for what later came to be termed "deformations" were genuinely dedicated.

    The Joke Kohak, Erazim V. 1970

  • Adding ABT-A30S to mortar gives that mortar, because of its remarkable flexibility, in certain cases the ability to adapt itself to new conditions such as deformations and expansion of material.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows zapping57 2009

  • My paper used certain concepts Alasdair McIntyre elucidated in After Virtue to analyze the ideological nature of post-Vatican II "deformations" of the liturgy, and how those deformations interfere with the end of liturgy as the contemplation of God.

    Thrown Back 2008

  • He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer was born in March 1945 and his work, highly rhetorical and mostly on a large scale, has been about the cultural deformations wrought by the Third Reich and the instructive, exemplary horrors of the 20th century.

    Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow – review Philip French 2010

  • Everett's deformations of form add an element of bracing insolence to satire that in I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a little too earnest.

    October 2009 2009

  • He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Only a continuously upheld psychic vigilance can keep such atavistic deformations at bay.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Everett's deformations of form add an element of bracing insolence to satire that in I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a little too earnest.

    Comedy in Literature 2010

  • Everett's deformations of form add an element of bracing insolence to satire that in I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a little too earnest.

    "So Set Against the Notion of Convention That I Should Attack It" 2009

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