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  • The religious right is actually dividing a bit along generational lines, and the younger cohort is particularly interested in environmental issues, not to mention being, one senses, a bit embarrassed by the sexual obsessions of the Jerry-atric Falwell set.

    What To Do When Your Party Sucks 2008

  • TWENTY MINUTES LATER Susan and I were speeding north out of New York City, and after an hour-fifty on the road we pulled onto the grounds of the Pine Woods Psychi - atric Facility in Lafayetteville, New York.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • The police doctor who'd tested his urine had hinted at depression, and if Jon persisted in silence there was a strong possibility his next stop would be the psychi-atric department at the local hospital.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

  • Now he seems obsessed with being a softer, more philosophic comedian-pre-Jerry-atric, a kind of Jewish Bill Cosby.

    The Professor's Still Nutty 2001

  • Now he seems obsessed with being a softer, more philosophic comedian-pre-Jerry-atric, a kind of Jewish Bill Cosby.

    The Professor's Still Nutty 2001

  • “Why can you talk about this with a psyche-atric and not with mother?”

    The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy 1989

  • (e) The following constitutes evidence that a person has a psychi - atric disorder or condition described by Subsection (d) (l):

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • However, it would look foolish to advertise for a needle which had traces of atric acid on it, wouldn't it? "

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • However, it would look foolish to advertise for a needle which had traces of atric acid on it, wouldn't it? "

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

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