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- adverb In an
impractical manner.
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Examples
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Fuck the creative industries because they promise to bring change, innovation and ‘disruption’ to the table before serving the same old bitter vinegar in impractically-shaped new bottles.
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Fuck the creative industries because they promise to bring change, innovation and ‘disruption’ to the table before serving the same old bitter vinegar in impractically-shaped new bottles.
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However, chef Thomas Keller makes his potato blinis without any kind of raising agent at all – they're as delicious as I'd expect from a man with two three-Michelin starred restaurants to his name, but impractically heavy: you wouldn't want to put away too many of these before dinner.
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Plus, she was impractically far from Austin—so far that she might as well be in New Mexico.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
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He argued, however impractically, for the restoration of a balance of power in Europe through the unification of Germany and its establishment as a neutral buffer between East and West.
Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011
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Plus, she was impractically far from Austin—so far that she might as well be in New Mexico.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
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It seeks to convert Europe's patchwork of impractically small national air-traffic operations into a seamless whole and thereby cut costs while boosting capacity.
Europe Says Bid to Fix Air Traffic Is Snarled Daniel Michaels 2011
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Plus, she was impractically far from Austin—so far that she might as well be in New Mexico.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
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In one camp, we preach (impractically) that money is the root of all evil and we should rise above it; and in the other camp, we preach (untruthfully) that God blesses the faithful and wants each person to be fabulously wealthy.
Paul Raushenbush: The Religious Case for Moving Your Money Where Your Heart Is 2010
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I remember back in July-August, when I was certain, somewhat impractically, that it would not pass because a nascent at the time popular uprising would make it fail.
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