quoz

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These quoz, as he calls them, can even be found within himself.

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  • Even if the jets would respond to the distant controls, even if the supply of water, which depended upon a storage chamber opening directly into the icy body of the planetoid, with built-in heat projectors steaming the propulsive fluid directly into the driving cells, were adequate, there was still no certainty that the body of the planetoid without a magnetic cable sheathing would hold together under the enormously disruptive stresses. —  The Martian Way
  • These quoz, as he calls them, can even be found within himself. —  Blog Business World
  • That's very much within his probabilistic idea of travel - a quoz is anything "strange, incongruous, or peculiar," which offers Heat-Moon great latitude. —  Route 66 News
  • Because she's important to these roads to quoz, I'll try to set her before you now and then, but not by physical description except to say she is slender, with straw-colored corkscrew hair that can draw from men long glances that amuse me. —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
  • The "quoz" (rhymes with Oz) in the title means "anything strange, incongruous or peculiar; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious." —  Route 66 News
 

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