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Examples
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As a person with MS, it infuriates me when politicians use an issue like embryonic stem cell research as an elixar to gain votes.
"If you don't pass universal health care by July of 2009... I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you." Ann Althouse 2007
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It was here my psychotic problems started, I found that drink was an elixar of life and without it I was a nobody, I started abusing anything to get a high because I was a skint student and do you know what I did when I graduated I spent 9 years as a labourer!
Sun Tan Fathorse 2007
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Experts say the cream could provide women with an "elixar of youth".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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How this delicate, beautiful and delicious elixar came to be is due in part to the glorious Indian summers of Niagara's autumn followed by the early winter frosts and snowfalls that create an environment in which grapes will naturally dehydrate, freeze, thaw, and ultimately freeze solid while hanging naturally on the vine.
Toronto Sun 2010
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But, after a good sausage on the grill, purely by accident, we figured out the perfect elixar to the language barrier.
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But, after a good sausage on the grill, purely by accident, we figured out the perfect elixar to the language barrier.
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But, after a good sausage on the grill, purely by accident, we figured out the perfect elixar to the language barrier.
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But, after a good sausage on the grill, purely by accident, we figured out the perfect elixar to the language barrier.
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But, after a good sausage on the grill, purely by accident, we figured out the perfect elixar to the language barrier.
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Ashm. 1788, fol. 147, viz. that “he revealed to one Roger Cooke the great secret of the elixar, as he called it, of the salt of metalls, the projection whereof was one upon an hundred.”]
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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