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  • Colleen McCullough's novels are masterpieces, and I do not use the term lightly.

    Emperor series, by Conn Iggulden. Book review. Carla 2007

  • I sincerely hope that your journal is unwilling to be used as a tool of McCarthyism… and I do not use the term lightly.

    Public Diplomacy Guilmartin, John F. 1988

  • As a person inherently skeptical of miracles in any form, I do not use the term lightly.

    Comrade Kevin's Chrestomathy Comrade Kevin 2010

  • What a pitiful human being and I use the term lightly. hockey mum, pig with a lipstick, pittbull bite, twit baby twit … … … ….

    CNN Political Ticker 2009

  • What a pitiful human being and I use the term lightly. hockey mum, pig with a lipstick, pittbull bite, twit baby twit … … … ….

    CNN Political Ticker 2009

  • Against the Germans, Inter fizzed and fired, a Samuel Eto'o hat-trick sealing a victory which served notice to the continent's elite that the Italian champions will not give up their title lightly.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Despite having run into people with a wide range of conditions through dealing with my sibling's autism, I had never met a sociopath before, yet I knew that people did not use the word lightly.

    Aaron Greenspan: The End of the Facebook Era 2010

  • Despite having run into people with a wide range of conditions through dealing with my sibling's autism, I had never met a sociopath before, yet I knew that people did not use the word lightly.

    Aaron Greenspan: The End of the Facebook Era 2010

  • The man who forecast the market bubbles of 2000 and 2007 does not use that term lightly.

    Eric Schurenberg: The One Free Lunch Left for Investors 2009

  • Sure it's cheap and commercialized and preys on the emotions and expectations of people in love and I use that term lightly...

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jessica 2008

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