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  • P.S. when I arrive in March I will produce a video of you - a'la Lucy.

    façonner - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Now it's just getting ridiculous: Here's a job offer looking to hire a review spoofer, a'la Belkin.

    - The Consumerist 2009

  • Translation: the socialists will lose and the conservatives will sweep 2010 a'la 1994, but more so.

    Obama rips GOP in health care forum 2009

  • I'm a digital kind of guy, and the big dial was as foreign to me as having to hand-prime my car before leaving the garage (a'la big crank handle in the front of the car).

    Microwaving Beats Boiling For Veggies | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Now it's just getting ridiculous: Here's a job offer looking to hire a review spoofer, a'la Belkin.

    The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives 2009

  • In the U. S, modification of the STS stack a'la NLS'92/"DIRECT" would provide a flexible growth oriented launch vehicle to launch numerous large payloads manned and unmanned.

    Replacing Soyuz - NASA Watch 2009

  • Mr. Bower, you speak like a true Democrat ... a'la 1860 Alabama.

    A Clinton backer turns to McCain 2008

  • This isn't France, and nothing that big gets done (a'la The Shaw Group and the destruction of the Louisiana Democratic Party via CEO Jim Bernhard) without a whole HELLUVA lot of bad money passing under all of the wrong tables, and a whole ASSLOAD of people looking the other way.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • I see questions all the time about trends, a'la "what's hot right now?"

    Being Trendy Janice Hardy 2010

  • "The squeak of the snow will the temperature show" is clearly a truism, for many of us have experienced the squeakiness of walking over a very cold snow cover (a'la 2/7/10).

    Weather sayings: Do they have any value? Don Lipman 2010

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