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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A duck.
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Examples
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Or in shortened form: "If we bug you, your stay is free."
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A smaller, lighter car means a smaller battery pack, resulting in shortened recharge times.
2010 Detroit Auto Show: Plug-in presence shows fractures in electric car community 2010
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A smaller, lighter car means a smaller battery pack, resulting in shortened recharge times.
2010 Detroit Auto Show: Plug-in presence shows fractures in electric car community 2010
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Or in shortened form: "If we bug you, your stay is free."
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Or in shortened form: "If we bug you, your stay is free."
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So the problem is now that people who are losing their jobs don't want to pay this money back, can't afford to pay it back in a lot of cases, and the banks are forcing them to pay it back via very, very high interest rates in shortened periods of repayment, decrease in credit lines.
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So the problem is now that people who are losing their jobs don't want to pay this money back, can't afford to pay it back in a lot of cases, and the banks are forcing them to pay it back via very, very high interest rates in shortened periods of repayment, decrease in credit lines.
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This incident highlights the disturbing possibility that other undetected encounters may result in shortened engine life (Grindle and Burcham, 2002).
Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash 2009
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Yet another ultrasound later, our specialist had determined that the cervix had once again shortened overnight.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs: The Adventures of a Preterm Daddy: Part III 2009
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Al-Andarasbani's reference book contains the information from numerous Arabic sources, either lost or preserved in shortened versions in the later Persian translations.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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