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  • That said, if the sentiments of many of my friends and acquaintances are to be believed, than all of this is "hocum" and mindless conjecture.

    Zeitgeist: Addendum Patrick Vessey 2008

  • As to the market correcting itself, that is bunch of repub hocum.

    Hoyer Says Don’t Expect Stimulus Package Soon - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Scale-free network theory applied like this is hocum.

    36 Hours 2006

  • Scale-free network theory applied like this is hocum.

    36 Hours 2006

  • All the airlines, this price of gas is killing them, and I think what we did was that we believed all that hocum (ph) about we're going to go into Iraq, it's going to take us one week, the people are going to fall all over our necks and kiss us that they're so happy to see us.

    CNN Transcript May 20, 2004 2004

  • With all this hocum, secrecy and whispering, the industrialist becomes a member at so much per not realizing that the information thus peddled can be got for three cents a day -- five cents on Sundays -- by buying the _Daily

    Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare John L. Spivak

  • Manzi picked out one chapter in Levin's book, which concerned global warming, and demonstrated that it consisted largely of discredited denialist hocum.

    The New Republic - All Feed Jonathan Chait 2010

  • Manzi picked out one chapter in Levin's book, which concerned global warming, and demonstrated that it consisted largely of discredited denialist hocum.

    The New Republic - All Feed Jonathan Chait 2010

  • To my untrained eye there appears to be much hocum, wet-finger gauging and other assorted subjectivities inherent in the rule.

    Three Sources 2009

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