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• Conversations about the common interests of the "overtaxed and the underserved," about not being overdetermined by past resentments, were part of bridging the cultural divide in the Patriot Party, the Reform Party and in creating the independent coalition that backed Mike Bloomberg's mayoral runs in New York City in 2001 and 2005. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• At times his desire to make a statement leads to overdetermined use of imagery, which can lessen a poem's acuity. —  VQR
• The content of our business press is even more overdetermined by the power dynamic that places the interests -- and assumptions -- of the extremely wealthy over everyone else's. —  The Nation: Top Stories
• I'm wary of such and overdetermined approach to the biblical text in that such macro-level sytheses seem to inevitably require the flattening out of dissonances within the scriptural canon. —  Inhabitatio Dei
• As it turns out, the strategy is overdetermined: several factors point in the same direction. —  Balkinization

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