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- adjective Not
sexy .
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Examples
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Instead, they are managing and directing scientists more closely, requiring them to share data before it is published, cooperate, and do the nonsexy development work required after a discovery is made.
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"Its nonsexy stuff," Kenney says of the enrollment processes.
Open Enrollment 2010
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- Clearly the byproduct of a pilot called “Meet the Darlings” that a roomful of focus-group-savvy producers kept inserting provacative adjectives into before deciding to just remove all the original, nonsexy words.
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Pollitt praises the movie very highly, especially the title character, who she describes as "prickly, winsome, complex and original person: she wears work shirts, plays the guitar and has a luminous intelligence and a pixielike nonsexy beauty, and that is a way young girls are almost never portrayed in films."
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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It seems like only yesterday that the bull market was in full stampede, with the Nasdaq market above the magic 5000 mark and even nonsexy indicators like the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow industrials hitting new high after new high.
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On the obscure nonsexy flab that hangs under my arm placement choice out of respect for prospective future boyfriends, I have a new tattoo, my first, picturing a pink-veined piece of raw shrimp.
shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005
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On the obscure nonsexy flab that hangs under my arm placement choice out of respect for prospective future boyfriends, I have a new tattoo, my first, picturing a pink-veined piece of raw shrimp.
shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005
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On the obscure nonsexy flab that hangs under my arm placement choice out of respect for prospective future boyfriends, I have a new tattoo, my first, picturing a pink-veined piece of raw shrimp.
shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005
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On the obscure nonsexy flab that hangs under my arm placement choice out of respect for prospective future boyfriends, I have a new tattoo, my first, picturing a pink-veined piece of raw shrimp.
shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005
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The more permissive political atmosphere of Ukraine has spawned Femen, a group of young women who address such nonsexy issues as pension reform by baring their breasts in public.
NYT > Home Page By ELLEN BARRY 2011
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