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  • The expression's odyssey from urgent to comic is "an interesting metric of how attitudes toward terrorism have changed since 9/11," says Roy Licklider, a Rutgers political scientist.

    How 9/11 changed us: Making sure the terrorists don't win 2011

  • The expression's odyssey from urgent to comic is "an interesting metric of how attitudes toward terrorism have changed since 9/11," says Roy Licklider, a Rutgers political scientist.

    How 9/11 changed us: Making sure the terrorists don't win 2011

  • For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Kathy, it's fun to guess at a word or expression's meaning and fun to be right.

    Genre writer Peter Temple wins literary award Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • In this scene, Guidolon's all bent out of shape about how badly his making his movie is going (the expression's not quite right, but, hey, this is a production sketch, not a finished drawing).

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  • An expression's semantic value is irrelevant for determining the semantic value of the quotation of that expression, thus accounting for (BQ1).

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • Dummett argues, first, that regular use by a whole community of speakers is a condition on an expression's having linguistic meaning, and, second, that therefore a normative attitude towards the common language is required of each individual speaker (Dummett 1991, 85).

    The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

  • The content (intension) of every complex expression in a context c and structure M is determined by the expression's grammar and the contents (intensions) in c and M of the expressions that appear in the sentence.

    Again 2009

  • The expression's inadequacy becomes apparent when one hears the story of Jani Schofield, a seven-year-old, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has already been hospitalized seven or eight times in psychiatric wards.

    Robert David Jaffee: Schizophrenic Homesick Blues 2009

  • This item cannot be the expression's regular extension.

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

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