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Examples
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I love the theater of politics and the unfolding car-crash nature of it.
Lowe Lends Hand Mike Vilensky 2011
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To be ahead at all is, he reckons, not bad only 18 months from a car-crash election, and he remarks on Labour's uncharacteristic freedom from serious internal discord.
Vindication for Ed Miliband is in the air | Polly Toynbee 2011
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Morgan and Whishaw have miraculously captured about three actual journalists I know, in terms of drive, sensibilities and car-crash lack of charm.
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“So when are you going to talk about your own special talent?” she asks, changing the subject with car-crash abruptness.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
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All around me are absolutely fluent non-native speakers of language who nevertheless retain their typical L1 accents, with car-crash effects on the L2 pronunciation; whereas their children, who have far lower levels of both fluency and accuracy in the L2 language, nevertheless speak it with little or no trace of L1 accent.
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Slowly, you realise there is a horological car-crash ahead.
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These aren't just any bad movies, of course: only the most spectacularly, transcendently awful car-crash cinema has made the grade.
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Diane Abbott, the shadow health minister, said: "Over the next two years, Britain is on course to lose approximately 3,700 of our GPs as a direct result of the chaos, confusion and incompetence of this government and its car-crash NHS reorganisation."
Thousands of family doctors to retire early because of NHS reforms 2011
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Diane Abbott, the shadow health minister, said: "Over the next two years, Britain is on course to lose approximately 3,700 of our GPs as a direct result of the chaos, confusion and incompetence of this government and its car-crash NHS reorganisation."
Thousands of family doctors to retire early because of NHS reforms 2011
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“So when are you going to talk about your own special talent?” she asks, changing the subject with car-crash abruptness.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
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