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  • As I fueled my trusty old "Pickle Wagon," (as my mortified girlfriends used to call the beast.)

    A Darwinian Rapture 2007

  • While a little compassion might help us climb the social ladder, once we're at the top we end up morphing into a very different kind of beast.

    The Power Trip 2010

  • Bush thinks everything is top-down like his little crime organization, but AQ is a different kind of beast.

    Yep, Bush Will Veto Any Antiwar Measures By Congressional Dems On Iraq -- And Iran 2009

  • Wow, they were strict about the definition of "beast."

    See the submissions for BEASTS! Book 2 « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008

  • My experience with English courses and with English teachers, not just at my current school but in the other schools I've taught at and the secondary schools I attended, as well as the schools my children attended, tells me that writing as it is taught in most regular English classes is a very particular kind of beast.

    Feeding the Beast Bruce Schauble 2007

  • My experience with English courses and with English teachers, not just at my current school but in the other schools I've taught at and the secondary schools I attended, as well as the schools my children attended, tells me that writing as it is taught in most regular English classes is a very particular kind of beast.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • They buffet one another, but are each a unique kind of beast.

    New Blog on Virtual Worlds & Learning: Pop.Cosmo 2007

  • NeD, Delay, Frist – you are all the same kind of beast.

    Think Progress » On a conference call 2005

  • At Crooked Timber, John Quiggin was wondering about that, since (like countless others) he was taught that only nuclear reactions are actually converting mass into energy; chemical reactions are a different kind of beast.

    That famous equation Sean 2005

  • The tory birds weren't even close to settling back down into the branches where they lived, which was a sure sign that what they were screaming about was more than a meatbeast or any other kind of beast.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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