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But that would be a double-reverse phraseology, “meatspace” itself have been backed-out of “cyberspace” despite obviously preceding it by a few billion years.
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Another useful template is the double-reverse historical analogy.
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He suggested the 49ers might be fooled by a double-reverse, a play Kilmer says didn't exist in the playbook.
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But that would be a double-reverse phraseology, “meatspace” itself have been backed-out of “cyberspace” despite obviously preceding it by a few billion years.
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That's what leaks are for sometimes; a kind of double-reverse leak.
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Each day the Chinese market went down, this double-reverse fund went up twice as much.
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Anyway, we honkey cracker whities are cementing our racism into new modes, rejecting the older obvious, ugly, and insidious forms of racism, and employing instead the clandestine backdoor underground double-reverse racism of electing a black man to be President.
Oh, Glenn Loury is not allowed to say that. Ann Althouse 2009
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Oh God … I play basketball against Asians all the time (yay West Coast!), I wonder if the movie captures their game: lots of slapping fouls, lots of turnovers and screwing up double-reverse layups on the fast break.
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Rate It either the campaign is just organically careful and unwilling to take chances at this point or they have a stealthy double-reverse psychology type of plan.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama Strategy: Wait for McCain-Palin to Implode? 2008
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Now, along the way, I took a brief sidetrip, saying that I didn't really care for white people, felt embarrassed to be one of them, etc ... and a few people called me to task for trying to pull off some kind of ironic, hip double-reverse, or for forgetting that one's sense of identity doesn't arise from the color of one's skin, but from the content of one's character.
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