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- noun Plural form of
pothole .
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Examples
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What Obama does know how to do is waste money Mayor Daley style — you put an extra shift on filling in potholes and call it “infrastructure.”
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This was not necessarily the best way to go about running a nation ( "I want a law prohibiting potholes" is how someone described it to me), and follow-up turned out to be a problem, but Bremer was confident and decisive, and so, therefore, was his newly formed CPA.
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This was not necessarily the best way to go about running a nation ( "I want a law prohibiting potholes" is how someone described it to me), and follow-up turned out to be a problem, but Bremer was confident and decisive, and so, therefore, was his newly formed CPA.
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Rather than just patching up the roads and re-classifying the definition of potholes, we need structural improvements.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But the reality of cycling means that there's things called potholes, broken glass, vehicles parked in bike lanes or just otherwise double parked, pedestrians standing or walking in bike lanes who may or may not be pushing strollers/ rolling luggage/ shopping carts full of their possessions, etc. and, of course, car doors.
People Are People: Dealing With It BikeSnobNYC 2010
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They don't want to be blamed for not fixing potholes, which is what happens when you take over the government.
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Emergency repairs were launched and the road was patched with a mix of plywood, concrete and steel, but state highway officials said the potholes were the result of years of neglect.
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According to Assistant City Engineer Steve Vanderleest the potholes should be a thing of the past.
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SeeClickFix asks users to submit alerts about public infrastructure concerns such as potholes, graffiti, broken streetlights and speed bumps via its iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps.
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SeeClickFix asks users to submit alerts about public infrastructure concerns such as potholes, graffiti, broken streetlights and speed bumps via its iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps.
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