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  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to dentine.

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Examples

  • Thus, any government documents that might involve "trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential" are exempt.

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011

  • Second, in addition to any national security restrictions on government materials related to contractor activities, the statute grants an additional exception for "confidential business information."

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011

  • As a result, any contract terms that could qualify as "confidential business" matters would not be open to public scrutiny.

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011

  • Blog pioneer Dave Winer has found his idle industry-conference chitchat so frequently live-blogged that he now feels "like a presi-dential candidate" and worries about making off-the-cuff remarks.

    Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt 2007

  • Its site was not as flashy, perhaps, as one on Ocean Boule - vard just to the northeast of West Palm in Palm Beach proper, but then it was far more secluded, and just as im - portant, its approach was through a solid middle-class resi - dential district, rather than the black ghetto just west of Palm Beach.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Albertus has now been absorbed entirely in the provi - dential universe of God, the angels, and the celestial

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • Believing that “the skillful plan of [God] the provi - dential ruler is not so clear in things on earth as it is in regard to the sun and moon and stars,” Origen asserts the revelatory function of language when deal - ing with sacred literature.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

  • Fate, Fortune, and Chance as parts of the chain of causality in the universe have been analyzed by natural philosophers, they have been incorporated into provi - dential systems by theologians, they have been person - ified by poets, and they have entered all types of pictorial figurations.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • The astro - logical influence of Fate on the individual is not dis - carded because, although it does not fit into the provi - dential system, the denial of its existence would leave

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • Under a presentiment of approaching death, of which he had an unusual fear, he went into retreat in 1851, and prepared himself by prayer and self-dential for the end.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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