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- adjective Attributive form of
guinea pig , noun.
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Examples
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A 2006 survey by NPIA showed that neo-fascists, militant animal-fur campaigners and body-snatching guinea-pig lovers were embarrassingly under-represented in our police service.
The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky.
Color Wheel 2010
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Abu Zubaydah was the first official guinea-pig for the unlawful interrogation techniques developed by the CIA for its 'high-value detainee' programme, including the "facial slap", "cramped confinement", "stress positions" and "the waterboard" (as outlined in this memo).
Clara Gutteridge: New CIA Interrogation Tapes Hint at Legal 'Loophole' Allowing the US to Outsource Torture Clara Gutteridge 2010
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Veteran science writer Jennifer Ackerman took guinea-pig journalism to a mundane but potentially dangerous level in researching her new book, "Ah-choo!"
Jennifer Ackerman's "Ah-Choo: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold" 2010
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Abu Zubaydah was the first official guinea-pig for the unlawful interrogation techniques developed by the CIA for its 'high-value detainee' programme, including the "facial slap", "cramped confinement", "stress positions" and "the waterboard" (as outlined in this memo).
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Trial schemes conducted over the past few years have treated voluntary, guinea-pig teens to residential retreats, where they worked on team building and community projects.
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Meanwhile the guinea-pig group, which has just started year 6, is still drawing, painting, writing, working in the school's new animation club, and borrowing library books.
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Me, my wife, my rabbit Bullet, and my guinea-pig Skunky are all voting Obama this year.
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But something goes horribly wrong, when Seth uses himself as a guinea-pig in a matter transmission experiment, as he teleports himself, unaware his genes have been fused with a house fly that was trapped in the telepod with him.
Remake of The Fly to Be Directed By… David Cronenberg | /Film 2009
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It sits in a former guinea-pig barn on a farm the Department of Agriculture has been running in Maryland since 1936.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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