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  • It's a jour­ney; We've stuffed up, failed to achieve a tar­get and have no idea where we're headed, there­fore we'll never set a dead­line for com­ple­tion or some­one will find out we're screwed. term denot­ing the nature and the order of lies to be told to the gut­ter press so as to put the best pos­si­ble spin on yet another screw up.

    Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! Whaleoil 2010

  • To solve this problem, the FCC has redefined profanity as "including language that denot [es] certain of those personally reviling epithets naturally tending to provoke violent resentment or denoting language so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance."

    Balkinization 2004

  • The collision would create a spectacular display, denot only stroying the star, but swallowing up its neighbors.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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