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  • Yes, I understand the idea of maning variants of toys to resell them.

    TFormers.com 2009

  • Yes, I understand the idea of maning variants of toys to resell them.

    TFormers.com 2009

  • A public OPTION maning option you dumb right wing lunatics.

    Sebelius reiterates support for public health option 2009

  • "It seems to me an utter perversion of the maning of compassion, both in law and morality, to suggest that an unrepentant, mass murderer of entirely innocent human beings should not be required to end his life in prison."

    The Great Libya Folly 2009

  • My point here is that it†™ s easy to describe something (especially something you don†™ t like) with common “jargon” that you†™ d use with someone you agree with in cases where you†™ re NOT speaking with someone who understands the “jargon” or has another maning FOR the “jargon”.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006 2006

  • I've been maning to get some to sprinkle on chouquettes besides friands, I've also been craving that!

    Bread Baking Day #2 Haalo 2007

  • Just becasue I wrote a paper in hihg school arguing that the witches in MacBeth were actually angels does not, in fact, consitute evidence of a debate about the maning of the angels in that play.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » No Debate On Cause of Global Warming 2006

  • If the sight of another man in his shirt at first added some shock to the deceny of the lady, it made her presently amends by considerably abating her fears; for no sooner had the calabalaro entered the room than he cried out, “Mr. Fitzpatrick, what the devil is the maning of this?”

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • ‘Maning enough, and bad maning too,’ the Cornish girl made answer.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Wad ye say what the maning is, and what name goeth pledge for the fafty poon,

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

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