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- adjective Not
captured .
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Examples
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Fighting for their freedom, Arnau and his father flee to the big city of Barcelona, where if they remain uncaptured for over a year, they will gain their emancipation.
“Cathedral of the Sea” by Ildefonso Falcones (Dutton, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Osama Bin Laden remains alive, he reports, because Bush preferred to go after oil-rich Iraq rather than tracking down Al Qaeda leaders, whose uncaptured presence was useful to him in justifying a “war on terror” pursued on a military rather than a criminal basis without constitutional restraints.
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Since then, NASA, vision flickering, public imagination uncaptured, has stooped to offering belittling practical justifications for spaceflight (GPS, cell phones) that ground and practicalize the sublime, killing its poetry.
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* We will not allow uncaptured gaseous emissions from any of our processes: no evaporation from open pits, no pressure releases from compressor stations or condensate tanks.
Alison Rose Levy: What if the Gas Industry Really Wanted to Make Fracking Safer? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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Since then, NASA, vision flickering, public imagination uncaptured, has stooped to offering belittling practical justifications for spaceflight (GPS, cell phones) that ground and practicalize the sublime, killing its poetry.
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I have zero patience for jokes about MI ops that kept me alive or at least uncaptured in spite of my own ignorance.
Flag Watch: Saturday at Rand Corp - Col Gayton and Adm Mullen | RedState 2010
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Emil Jacques Guirlande was a murderer by trade, a killer uncaptured and unsuspected, a quiet-mannered man who avoided attention, but who had by the age of thirty-seven successfully assassinated sixteen targets comprising seven businessmen, eight wives and one child.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Should the current rate of uncaptured oil discharged from the BP well continue, the spill will equal the yearly amount of oil entering the world's oceans sometime in August.
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What had just happened before them in this small, private chapel in the Cathedral of Turin was unprecedented, uncaptured in human history.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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The Oracle replied, "A wall of wood alone shall be uncaptured."
Michael Winship: Don't Believe Everything the Oracle Tells You 2009
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