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- proper noun Alternative form of
Leaning Tower of Pisa .
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Examples
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Imagine shifting the Tower of Pisa into downtown Manhattan and convincing everyone it's in the right place; that's the scale of the task.
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
I Have, Have You? 2009
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Bob Herbert and his Tower of Pisa fantasies (he must be dying to blow Hussein) has seen to that ...
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa - No
Have You Ever 2006
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You'll meet a family that says their house leans like the Tower of Pisa thanks to Katrina.
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
Archive 2006-11-01 Teena in Toronto 2006
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
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Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa - No
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Which allowing for the tendentious terminology is not always desirable, any more than it is desirable to, say, let the Tower of Pisa fall over because that would be gravity in action, or to stand still on the roadway as a Mac truck approaches because that would be inertia and momentum in action.
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