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- noun Plural form of
dehiscence .
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What’s more, because such bodily improvements tend to be undertaken in view of an ideal, they generate a physique not more but less unique: the gain in perfection comes with some loss of character, with some smoothing out, as for a Barbie doll, of the dehiscences, declivities, and dewlaps that are exclusively yours.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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What’s more, because such bodily improvements tend to be undertaken in view of an ideal, they generate a physique not more but less unique: the gain in perfection comes with some loss of character, with some smoothing out, as for a Barbie doll, of the dehiscences, declivities, and dewlaps that are exclusively yours.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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