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  • noun Plural form of cerebration.

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Examples

  • Coated, cloaked, and concealed with rust — warped egalitarian cerebrations.

    Humor 2009

  • Coated, cloaked, and concealed with rust — warped egalitarian cerebrations.

    Art and Literature 2009

  • Coated, cloaked, and concealed with rust — warped egalitarian cerebrations.

    Dissent and Heresy 2009

  • Normally as a critic, I have championed the emotions in the cinema over the cerebrations.

    Brideshead Revisited, Revisited! Lush Southern Wedding Throws Me for Loop! 2008

  • Her sister Minnie knew nothing of these rather wild cerebrations, though they exhausted the markets of delight.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • By which you intend your membrum virile and the wayward cerebrations that command it?

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • By which you intend your membrum virile and the wayward cerebrations that command it?

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • But to defer my cerebrations until I reached my abode proved an impossibility.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • French Eva's cerebrations are in some ways a mystery to me, but I am sure she knew what she wanted.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • The decisions seemed charged with consequences to the future of human society; yet the air whispered that the word was not flesh, that it was futile, insignificant, of no effect, dissociated from events; and one felt most strongly the impression, described by Tolstoy in _War and Peace_ or by Hardy in _The Dynasts_, of events marching on to their fated conclusion uninfluenced and unaffected by the cerebrations of Statesmen in Council:

    The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1914

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