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  • I saw a TV movie about the USA having a nuclear missile emergency, and the protagonist of the movie detoned an atomic bomb (in the USA TV movies anything can be done or undone with a quite big bomb, read earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes, aliens …).

    Think Progress » Washington Times Misfires on Missile Defense 2006

  • Far beneath the billows detoned against the crags.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • "A physician was procured, but he pronounced her system so debilitated and detoned as hardly probable to outride the shock, the nervous centres being depressed and atrophy setting in.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

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  • Denoted in reverse.

    July 22, 2007