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- adjective Alternative spelling of
third-world .
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Examples
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After all, such regions as South America are included in the term "Third-World".
Evening Standard - Home Rashid Razaq 2011
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So, it was a telling moment when the well-informed Arianna Huffington appeared on The Daily Show on Tuesday to discuss the economic crisis described in her book, Third-World America.
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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This fashionable brand of Third-World "self-determination" left First-World leaders with only one politically correct choice: Sit down, keep quiet and let the dictators—er, "nationalist liberators"—continue to smother free expression and hunt, imprison, torture and murder their opposition.
The Demise of Third Worldism Fabio Rafael Fiallo 2011
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So, it was a telling moment when the well-informed Arianna Huffington appeared on The Daily Show on Tuesday to discuss the economic crisis described in her book, Third-World America.
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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Face it: you'd never have got your iPod back from them, and you'd probably be dead, if you'd shown your alien white face and flashed such an obvious sign of affluence in the Third-World parts of Chicago, LA, or DC or the rural slums of the Deep South. anilbajpai
Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009
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So, it was a telling moment when the well-informed Arianna Huffington appeared on The Daily Show on Tuesday to discuss the economic crisis described in her book, Third-World America.
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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For 400 years, this is how former Third-World nations have become former Third World nations.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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Exacerbating these problems, the Congress Party, along with India's dwindling but still vocal communists, remains stuck in a time warp of supposed Third-World solidarity with "oppressed" Palestinians rather than understanding that as a rising power India's interests lie with democratic Israel.
India Fumbles on Palestine Sadanand Dhume 2011
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For 400 years, this is how former Third-World nations have become former Third World nations.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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A Pakistani, he brought a Third-World missionary zeal to the job.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 10, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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