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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gamut.

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Examples

  • So now we'll run the gammut of marvel superheros till hollywood screws that up something feirce.

    Marvel Announces Next Four Films - Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • It is a perceptual scale that represents all colours, not just a fixed gammut generated by an arbitrary set of so-called "primary" colors.

    Peak Saturation Value James Gurney 2010

  • Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry -- from Rockefeller's strategy to halt Ford's first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation -- and reveals a gammut of available solutions to "repower America" -- from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel.

    Josh Tickell: Special LA & NY Fuel Screenings 2009

  • I love that it ran the gammut from fast food Quizos sandwiches to upscale sit down places.

    Synopsis of a Week: AKA Finally some time to myself! Field Notes 2009

  • That's really how you could tell an idea had run the gammut and needed to be retired.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • I love that it ran the gammut from fast food Quizos sandwiches to upscale sit down places.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Field Notes 2009

  • Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry -- from Rockefeller's strategy to halt Ford's first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation -- and reveals a gammut of available solutions to "repower America" -- from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel.

    Josh Tickell: Go Green Expo Screening with Peter Fonda and Mariel Hemmingway - Jan 23 2009

  • That's really how you could tell an idea had run the gammut and needed to be retired.

    The Comic Rip off Quiz Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • Grounded in the urban life of Sao Paulo with a touch of magical realism, the unrelated stories range the gammut from high concept--a friend is brought back from the dead to spend his birthday among the living; a young woman tells a complete stranger that he's too late to fall in love with her--to the quietly mundane.

    Review: De:TALES David S. Carter 2006

  • Grounded in the urban life of Sao Paulo with a touch of magical realism, the unrelated stories range the gammut from high concept--a friend is brought back from the dead to spend his birthday among the living; a young woman tells a complete stranger that he's too late to fall in love with her--to the quietly mundane.

    Archive 2006-06-01 David S. Carter 2006

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