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Not knowing their code-word rendered her efforts moot.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Not knowing their code-word rendered her efforts moot.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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In the last 40 years the term "poor" has evolved into being a code-word for "black", urban black.
What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hassan cannot understand, and for which the poem's code-word is "heart:"
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These whisper email campaigns against him about his religion and the flag-pins are code-word campaigns that in the end are more about him being black than his religion.
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Because Spanish conversos were forbidden to settle the New World, they came as “Portugese,” and the label became a code-word for conversos.
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Certainly there was danger, but James had always thrived on that: the code-word telephone calls, the drops, and the meetings.
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Because with all this hope that America fails, you've got to wonder if 'Great American' is actually just code-word for something else.
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Gutter, code-word racism, as this ad exemplifies, must be out in the open and exposed.
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No, I think HRC was speaking to the pro-Israel community, where the code-word 'precondition' is similiar to the the term 'states rights' in Dixie.
Video Postcript: Hillary Pats Obama On The Head, Says, "Yes, Dear" 2009
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