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- noun Plural form of
stirring .
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Disturbing Latin American stirrings in the final Bush administration months along with all else on their plate and planned in the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere.
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Disturbing Latin American stirrings in the final Bush administration months along with all else on their plate and planned in the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere.
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Natalie Portman, who covered her baby bump with a purple Rodarte gown, got a bit weepy as she accepted her Best Actress prize for "Black Swan," and Colin Firth, looking incredibly dapper in a traditional black tuxedo, got the audience laughing as he referred to the "stirrings" he was feeling in his "upper abdominals" as he looked out over the A-list audience.
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Disturbing Latin American stirrings in the final Bush administration months along with all else on their plate and planned in the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere.
Signs of the Times 2008
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Disturbing Latin American stirrings in the final Bush administration months along with all else on their plate and planned in the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere.
Venezuela Analysis Stephen Lendman 2008
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She would die rather than utter a single injurious word, or let any sign of hatred escape her, and yet she is subject to the assaults and first motions of this passion, that is, to certain startings, strong movements and sallies of an angry heart, which the Chaldaic paraphrase calls stirrings
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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Hawkins said there were "stirrings" within the ruling party,
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He was lacking in that sort of energy and loved the peace that enabled his own bulb-beneath-the-earth kind of stirrings to find passage.
Red Dog Buchanan, James David 1979
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And if I may go out on a limb here, I think that for years, any time Brennan may have felt these 'stirrings' of jealousy about wanting or not wanting to feel love, she would have indulged with a sexual partner, to reaffirm her belief that relationships are temporary and love is a chemical process that produces delusions.
Give Me My Remote 2009
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" Was it the Jedi's fault that he had never felt the kind of stirrings that moved his Padawan to stare for hours on end at the night sky and call out in silence to a certain distant star?
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