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Especially because "cancer" is a cover-all word for a huge category of different conditions.
Consumer Surplus from Cancer Drugs, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010
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As for comfort on the streets, women can achieve the same effect by wearing a floppy hat, sunglasses and loose, cover-all clothes.
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Its interesting that Google will take out of print books and sellthem to users and to institutions as part of their cover-all subscriptions and benefit from it.
Amazon Vs Google Book Wars start end 2009. « Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, iPad Review 2008
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Will there be a cover-all bill from Leech's backroom printer "WPS" - to which he says he is personally unconnected - or will it be itemised transparently?
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At the time, that seemed like a cover-all clausemere legal jargon.
Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008
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The short robe and untrimmed beard or, in the case of women, black cover-all garments, are meant to emulate early Muslims whose devotion to Mohammad was unadulterated.
The Truth About Jihad Rodenbeck, Max 2005
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If my using "Christmas" as a cover-all for seasonal holidays offended anyone else, I apologize.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition) 1993
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But it was now part of an Air Force program whose cover-all name was Cobra.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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The plump little woman scrambled to her feet, brushing ashy dust off the knees of her brown cover-all.
YESTERDAY’S SON A.C. CRISPIN 1983
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The plump little woman scrambled to her feet, brushing ashy dust off the knees of her brown cover-all.
YESTERDAY’S SON A.C. CRISPIN 1983
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