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  • This study included 91 outpatients with moderate to severe depression who received an individually chosen homeopathic medicine or fluoxetine (Prozac) 20 mg/day (up to 40 mg/day) in a prospective, randomized, double-blind double-dummy eight week trial.

    Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010

  • Computers still do not play as well as people although they can now perform perfect double-dummy analysis of any given deal very quickly, something that no person can do.

    When is a weak no trump not a weak no trump? 2011

  • This study included 91 outpatients with moderate to severe depression who received an individually chosen homeopathic medicine or fluoxetine (Prozac) 20 mg/day (up to 40 mg/day) in a prospective, randomized, double-blind double-dummy eight week trial.

    Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010

  • If the double-dummy computer program Deep Finesse had been playing, the decision would have been irrelevant and it would have won the event by several miles.

    Tight finish in the English Premier League Zia Mahmood 2010

  • MacHugh that they had played double-dummy for a whole evening together; and they who were given to calumny had declared that the candles on that evening had been lighted very early.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • She would play dummy whist, preferring it to the four-handed game; and, when hard driven, and with a meet opponent, would not even despise double-dummy.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • Or, if need be, they played at cards, always the same old games — cribbage, ecarte, or double-dummy whist.

    Virgin Soil 2003

  • In another form of dummy bridge two hands are exposed whenever dummy's adversaries deal, but the game is unsuited for many players, as in every other hand the game is one of double-dummy.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • There were good days, when he taught her double-dummy auction bridge, followed by terrible nights, when he walked the floor for hours and she sat by, unable to help.

    Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • I suggested a game of double-dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked me if it resembled euchre.

    The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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