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- noun Plural form of
mania .
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Examples
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At no time have mania or I accused you of being fat and ugly, quite the opposite, we both said how much we liked your photo (in manias case licked your photo). now admittedly it was flattering photo, But I have seen photos of you pissed, covered in hives and with a flower stuck on top of your head (probably pissed) and you still looked nice ..
Men prefer attractive women regardless of age Newmania 2007
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There, it wasn't so much a matter of a lexicologist with scalpel classifying word manias and symptoms, but rather, measuring them in milliliters and removing their CT scanned location.
No More Tears 2009
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There, it wasn't so much a matter of a lexicologist with scalpel classifying word manias and symptoms, but rather, measuring them in milliliters and removing their CT scanned location.
No More Tears 2009
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Another of his manias was a desire to cut up dead bodies.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Eventually, such "manias," as Schwartz calls them, would begin replacing long-term investment, thus destroying entrepreneurship and harming economic growth.
Forbes.com: News Guy Sorman 2009
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But as we've learned over the last decade or so, manias are also defined by volatility and overshooting.
The LinkedIn Mania 2011
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The longer they last, the more manias misallocate resources as investors ignore fundamentals and chase the crowd.
The LinkedIn Mania 2011
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I swear to God, with my first comment I was going to make a pre-emptive joke about Hector soon arriving with his Crusades/Muslims taking over/abortions/High Church manias, but I decided to avoid rubbing the turd lamp hoping that particular odor would not appear. eric k Says:
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Panics, scares and manias, seen this way, are not failures of market mechanisms.
Don't Panic! Raymond Zhong 2012
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On the other hand, yesterday's remarkable price action also has a whiff of the manias that accompanied recent monetary-induced bubbles.
The LinkedIn Mania 2011
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