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The conductor told passengers they'd have to ride all the way to Coney Island, and then double-back on a Manhattan-bound D.
Subway Passengers Stranded For Four Hours Simon McCormack 2011
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The conductor told passengers they'd have to ride all the way to Coney Island, and then double-back on a Manhattan-bound D.
Subway Passengers Stranded For Four Hours Simon McCormack 2011
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We have former Governor Mitt Romney attempting a double-back, triple-front, backwards sommersault flippity flop with a difficulty of 2.9.
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The light turns green, and I cross and double-back on the opposite side of the street.
Going in Circles Fred Osuna 2011
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Good antipick deterrents, double-back code verifier.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Good antipick deterrents, double-back code verifier.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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One of my favorite writers, Brian Evenson, has said of Unlucky Lucky Days, "Grandbois is the master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw themselves to bits."
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Good antipick deterrents, double-back code verifier.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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The legislative road to equality is long and can even double-back on itself, as we've seen in California and Maine, where voters rejected their Supreme Court's decision and legislature's bill, respectively.
Cindy Handler: Do You Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident? 2009
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Razib over at Gene Expression has the fairest analysis of the bunch, though he does the double-back shuffle on "junk DNA" just like everybody else.
Comparing Teleological Predictions with their Non-teleological Counterparts 2007
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