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- noun Alternative spelling of
page-turner .
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Her pageturner was the 17-year-old Preben Antonsen who had written the next piece, "Dar el-Harb House of War" whose title was taken from an expletive directed at the invading U.S. forces in Iraq by the local Muslims, and which was tattooed on the arm of one of Preben's cousins who was part of the United States force.
Sarah Cahill at Mills College sfmike 2008
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Her pageturner was the 17-year-old Preben Antonsen who had written the next piece, "Dar el-Harb House of War" whose title was taken from an expletive directed at the invading U.S. forces in Iraq by the local Muslims, and which was tattooed on the arm of one of Preben's cousins who was part of the United States force.
Archive 2008-11-01 sfmike 2008
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A pageturner is a line or two set into a page designed to intrigue readers and encourage them to turn to another page further in to the newspaper.
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Her pageturner was the 17-year-old Preben Antonsen who had written the next piece, "Dar el-Harb (House of War)" whose title was taken from an expletive directed at the invading U.S.
Civic Center 2008
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Ms. Nelson's featured review appeared on April 14th; she called the book a "train wreck," but an "un-put-downable" "pageturner" at that.
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Ms. Nelson's featured review appeared on April 14th; she called the book a "train wreck," but an "un-put-downable" "pageturner" at that.
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Return to sender: Also on Saturday, there was what we call a "pageturner" on page 2 that was too long.
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(By the way, I'm pretty sure our theologians would be forced to conclude that a being created by God and endowed with will and reason must have a rational soul, so unless Beale has something up his sleeve, I doubt the theological problem of the book will make for a pageturner.)
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(By the way, I'm pretty sure our theologians would be forced to conclude that a being created by God and endowed with will and reason must have a rational soul, so unless Beale has something up his sleeve, I doubt the theological problem of the book will make for a pageturner.)
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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SFX: 'A gripping interplanetary saga close in tone to both Alistair Reynolds and Peter F Hamilton, but with enough edge and imagination to give it its own unique flavour...a seriously entertaining sci-fi pageturner.'
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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