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  • noun Plural form of cons.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cons.

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Examples

  • Leadership, bipartisanship and conses building were all appropriately displayed By Barack Obama.

    McCain, Obama and Paulson answer the 3 a.m. call 2008

  • And we need to have more data types than symbols and conses.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • In McCarthy's original eval, the only data types are conses and symbols.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • So far the only primitive types are symbols, conses, and functions.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • In principle, you can probably represent anything you want as conses.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • The type function returns cons for conses, symbol for symbols, and fn for functions.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • If you design a language that has car, cdr, cons, quote, eq, cond, and a notation for functions made of conses, then you've designed a dialect of Lisp, even if you didn't mean to.

    Arc at 3 Weeks 2001

  • I, 'I's raised wid de fust o' folks, 'cuz I's raised wid de Ma-conses at Doc' Macon's in Hanover, an 'I's spectated fish fries, an' festibals, an 'bobby-cues; but I ain' nuver witness nuttin 'like dat -- a nigger ridin' 'pon a hoss hard as he kin stave, an' nominatin 'of it a tunament,' I says.

    P'laski's Tunament 1891 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

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