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- adverb In a
blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).
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Examples
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I hate Mormonism too, but it's just not right to blanketly hate all of the people.
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Like any big life choice, I think that all people should feel free to make the choice that is right for them without pressure or expectations blanketly applied due to gender.
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With that in mind, it seems reasonable to assume I'd be blanketly supportive of more restrictive gun control measures.
Veterinarian fully vets the issue of guns, laws and pit bulls 2010
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I hate Mormonism too, but it's just not right to blanketly hate all of the people.
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Plus, the inclusion of Clarke and Riz Ahmed, as the skilled fighter Tarek, makes the common cinematic error of characterising ancient cultures as blanketly tolerant of all races.
CENTURION, more exciting than a history lesson | Obsessed With Film 2010
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Just to say yes, blanketly because they went through this, they will be scarred, no.
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I'm no fan of Hoyer's, but I think that given the structural and institutional restraints that the Constitution imposes on the Democrats in Congress, I don't blame them for not wanting to advocate blanketly cutting off funds at this point.
FLASHBACK: Here's Hillary's Full Speech On Eve Of War Vote 2009
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Poetry, do you realize how similar is the way you blanketly define and interpret the motivations of 'rightwingers' to the ways some folks [rightwingers] blanketly define and interpret the motivations of, say, 'commies', or, say, 'islamofascists'?
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For exceptionalist Americans who believe the only suffering worth caring for is American suffering, the daily, even hourly anguish of vulnerable third world people is accepted blanketly by Americans as those people's predestined fate in the world.
Linda Milazzo: End American Exceptionalism! Bring On American Compassion! 2008
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(Similarly, and intrinsically political though not manifestly empowered, broadcasting technology blanketly applies information ( 'news') across areas of locality where the info is irrelevant, incomprehensible, and incorrect.) Governments are instituted among people, whereas tyrannies and autocracies are instituted secretly in remote isolations.
OpEdNews - Diary: THE CITY OF BERKELEY VS THE WAR MACHINE 2008
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