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We attempt to create records that, when you a-b the one before it, it's better, and that's what we did.
Mike Ragogna: Still Prince's Cinderella: A Conversation with Sheila E., Plus Chats with Manchester Orchestra and Jim Guthrie, and Weerd Science's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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We attempt to create records that, when you a-b the one before it, it's better, and that's what we did.
Mike Ragogna: Still Prince's Cinderella: A Conversation with Sheila E., Plus Chats with Manchester Orchestra and Jim Guthrie, and Weerd Science's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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A continuing decline, observed, projected, or inferred, in numbers of mature individuals AND at least one of the following (a-b):
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If two variables a and b are highly correlated, orthogonalization would just replace them by something like a+b and a-b.
Multicollinearity and Micronumerosity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A continuing decline, observed, projected, or inferred, in numbers of mature individuals AND at least one of the following (a-b):
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It looked like CY got squeezed on GameDay during the Spillborgs a-b.
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I said my letters; and Miss Sewell, having found that I knew them pretty well, (thanks to Mammy's patient teaching), allowed me to spell in _a-b, ab_, and _b-a, ba_, and set me some straight marks on my slate.
A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church
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There are still twelve scholars, and all but four have got through with their sand letters, and are at work at their 'a-b, ab,' and 'b-a, ba.'
Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord
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In Fig. 13 this is shown by the two distances, a-b and a'-b '.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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Because of the body flexure and large size of the embryo the head was amputated, in the plane _a-b_, and cut sagitally, while the body was cut transversely in the direction shown by the section planes.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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