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  • noun Plural form of joining.

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Examples

  • The old man in "The Pardoner's Tale" may want to die because he wants to follow those who he loves to the other place, so-called, or because he is, simply, tired and worn out from being alive for so long and having made too many "joinings" that had to "die" without him.

    Last of the Time Lords Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • But he thought, perhaps, he had reached the time of his life when such interludes would be more than lustful joinings.

    Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010

  • Unlike most traditional “erotic literature,” which draws the basis for its eroticism from a core of sexual content treated as though it precedes the text, the anagrammed text starts with nothing but letters, which in themselves are about as sexy as a tax report, and finds in them a latent Metamorphoses of chimeric couplings and bawdy mis-joinings e.g., “Brilliant duel them corset her penis”.

    K. Silem Mohammad Reads Elizabeth Bachinsky Lemon Hound 2008

  • I ar joinings in the celebreshuns by drinking sum tea.

    OMG, is fulla starz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Unlike most traditional “erotic literature,” which draws the basis for its eroticism from a core of sexual content treated as though it precedes the text, the anagrammed text starts with nothing but letters, which in themselves are about as sexy as a tax report, and finds in them a latent Metamorphoses of chimeric couplings and bawdy mis-joinings e.g., “Brilliant duel them corset her penis”.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • We want to see work about keys and answers, and about unifications and joinings.

    October 2005 2005

  • We want to see work about keys and answers, and about unifications and joinings.

    Say... 2005

  • We want to see work about keys and answers, and about unifications and joinings.

    Some Say... news 2005

  • And this telling to take no heed to those base joinings that be made for purposes of wealth or

    The Night Land 2007

  • B 268, 253 (1986) that for interacting strings the splitting and joinings define a groupoid structure.

    Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology? Sean 2007

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