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Economists Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz, skiers who took offense to a fluffed-up claim, studied snow reports from 2004 to 2008 and compared them to area government weather stations.
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"She simply wanted to appear in her yearbook as herself, not as a fluffed-up stereotype of what school administrators thought she should look like."
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"She simply wanted to appear in her yearbook as herself, not as a fluffed-up stereotype of what school administrators thought she should look like."
Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination Deborah L. Rhode 2010
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The tricky thing about seeing the Killdeer chicks is that once the chicks are hatched, within hours they are dry, fluffed-up, and out of the nest, following their parents on foot, pecking at the ground like hen's chicks.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gumbo Lily 2009
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The tricky thing about seeing the Killdeer chicks is that once the chicks are hatched, within hours they are dry, fluffed-up, and out of the nest, following their parents on foot, pecking at the ground like hen's chicks.
Two, Three, Four.... Gumbo Lily 2009
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The so-called-liberal-media have produced light-weight fluffed-up debates which avoid the many failures of the Bush administration and most other substantive issues.
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The so-called-liberal-media have produced light-weight fluffed-up debates which avoid the many failures of the Bush administration and most other substantive issues.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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According to Boorstin's definition in his highly-regarded 1961 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, the Bollinger-Ahmadinejad prizefight met all four requirements of a fluffed-up circus of hot air, er, I mean a pseudo-event:
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Her films "are so fluffed-up and gummy that they make Richard Curtis look like Ingmar Bergman," though the Telegraph's Sukhdev Sandhu adds: "The Holiday, fortunately for her fans, and I must embarrassedly confess to being one of them, is no exception."
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A kind of flurry of wings and fluffed-up feathers flowed around those few eagles visible from the parade ground and up on the watchtowers.
Spirit Gate 2006
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