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  • This enables many aspects to be explored that just don't happen in most books, either because they don't have sequels or if they do, the sequels are added-on, usually displaying the law of diminishing returns, rather than part of a whole - or in the case of series, become formula, however superior.

    December 2008 Maxine 2008

  • During the mid–eighteenth century, hairstyles were massive, requiring added-on human hair.

    Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010

  • Sore arms (from carrying all the added-on accessories and upgrades the salesman talked you into buying)

    Do You Suffer From CLH? (Consumer Learned Helplessness) - The Consumerist 2008

  • This enables many aspects to be explored that just don't happen in most books, either because they don't have sequels or if they do, the sequels are added-on, usually displaying the law of diminishing returns, rather than part of a whole - or in the case of series, become formula, however superior.

    Novels in search of main characters Maxine 2008

  • This enables many aspects to be explored that just don't happen in most books, either because they don't have sequels or if they do, the sequels are added-on, usually displaying the law of diminishing returns, rather than part of a whole - or in the case of series, become formula, however superior.

    Novels in search of main characters Maxine 2008

  • Their theory is that houses traditionally have been a conglomeration of added-on spaces, arising organically from need (however if you read the book, please discount most of what they say about the larger landscape, it's pretty outdated and ecologically uneducated, though well-meaning).

    The Achitecture of Fear Heather McDougal 2007

  • However, focusing on the car and less on its added-on safety gear will help.

    Choosing a New Car Built in America 2009

  • Considering all the terrible consequences that flow from this philosophy - divorces, death, quackery, ruthlessness - and all with that solipcism Warner mentions an added-on Alice In Wonderland-quality that believers ignore, or think is cute, but is troubling and much-too-obvious to outsiders - NewAge has to be the biggest con of our lifetimes.

    "A woman in an airport bathroom who, I felt, had addressed my daughter Julia with an unforgivable tone of officiousness and disdain..." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Still, your point stands and as I say in the now added-on section, it's time to get some sort of normality back into relations, as you say, 'not connected with wealth distribution'.

    [cry rape] sorting out the truth from the lies 2009

  • And -- you know -- medical bills and all the other added-on expenses, it's just made it really hard.

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008 2008

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