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- adjective Of or pertaining to Mary Shelley's fictional Frankenstein, who created a monster from human remains.
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Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond mutual fund, sums it up like this: it is 'Frankensteinian' levered body of shadow banks promoting a chain letter, pyramid scheme of leverage 'in his January newsletter.
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Whether it's a smiling machine, a music recommending algorithm or a robot schoolteacher, we often hail these breakthroughs as "Frankensteinian" advances.
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Whether it's a smiling machine, a music recommending algorithm or a robot schoolteacher, we often hail these breakthroughs as "Frankensteinian" advances.
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Final budget / revenue plans are an abomination, some kind of Frankensteinian creation that has no policy underpinnings but fills a budget hole with cobbled together revenue Band-Aids.
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Final budget / revenue plans are an abomination, some kind of Frankensteinian creation that has no policy underpinnings but fills a budget hole with cobbled together revenue Band-Aids.
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The land also reveals the Frankensteinian scars and machinery necessary to keep up that level of production.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not. The Media Consortium 2011
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The land also reveals the Frankensteinian scars and machinery necessary to keep up that level of production.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not. The Media Consortium 2011
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The land also reveals the Frankensteinian scars and machinery necessary to keep up that level of production.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not. The Media Consortium 2011
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I think it's through the talents the cast with Cusack and Molly Shannon (voicing Igor's Frankensteinian invention, Eva) that help salvage what's there to be enjoyed.
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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I think it's through the talents the cast with Cusack and Molly Shannon (voicing Igor's Frankensteinian invention, Eva) that help salvage what's there to be enjoyed.
Rabid Rewind: Igor 2010
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