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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
handwave .
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Examples
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In fact, I have wondered if some bright grad student could reinvent Keynesian macroeconomics without the weird menu cost handwaves of the new Keynesians, just by exploiting the non-equilibrium features of the real estate market.
Time to Panic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One of the new one-pagers makes fun of those who want to compare the Spirit to a superhero; another handwaves away the problem of the racism demonstrated by the stereotype of Ebony.
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Or in Ledbetter, where Ginsburg handwaves away the costs of litigation just as Stevens did in Jones, by saying that the trial judge can just manage away these problems.
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Once again, of course, we get the obligatory reference to permissible "legitimate criticism," but no examples are ever provided when such handwaves are made.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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How he does it is indicative of his methods overall: he looks for internal clues that support his reading, and ignores or handwaves away internal clues that don't support his reading.
Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence? James F. McGrath 2010
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Or in Ledbetter, where Ginsburg handwaves away the costs of litigation just as Stevens did in Jones, by saying that the trial judge can just manage away these problems.
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It's a whole ~handwaves~ contractor/not-FTE thing that I don't really care to get into.
And in other news... cavalaxis 2007
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It's a whole ~handwaves~ contractor/not-FTE thing that I don't really care to get into.
Archive 2007-10-01 cavalaxis 2007
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One problem here is that the cop handwaves his report of how he entered the home.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: 2009
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Once again, of course, we get the obligatory reference to permissible "legitimate criticism," but no examples are ever provided when such handwaves are made.
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