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- prefix Prefix meaning on, at, toward, upon.
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Examples
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I've participated in a lot of furious debate on- and offline about education, particularly on testing and the role of public schools.
Shaun Johnson: Are Parents a Privileged Class in Education? Shaun Johnson 2011
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I've participated in a lot of furious debate on- and offline about education, particularly on testing and the role of public schools.
Shaun Johnson: Are Parents a Privileged Class in Education? Shaun Johnson 2011
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What's missing however, are the on- camera angels.
Lorraine Roe: Scary Ghost Movies: Where Are the Good Ghouls? Lorraine Roe 2011
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I've participated in a lot of furious debate on- and offline about education, particularly on testing and the role of public schools.
Shaun Johnson: Are Parents a Privileged Class in Education? Shaun Johnson 2011
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What's missing however, are the on- camera angels.
Lorraine Roe: Scary Ghost Movies: Where Are the Good Ghouls? Lorraine Roe 2011
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We're all after the same goal, but I do not regret one thing that I said on- or off-camera.
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In the same poem, you write, "To make an identity repair-kit of all black folk / behavior, to shine or show-off, as nuisance as / nuance, sometimes some-timey and sometimes on- / point, the slanguage of hood ornaments."
Anis Shivani: White House Poetry Reading Leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and Secret Rejection Letter Anis Shivani 2011
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Financial trouble at Ibrox has left a call for the new Rangers owner, Craig Whyte, to invest meaningfully in on- and off-field affairs.
Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers 2011
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In the same poem, you write, "To make an identity repair-kit of all black folk / behavior, to shine or show-off, as nuisance as / nuance, sometimes some-timey and sometimes on- / point, the slanguage of hood ornaments."
Anis Shivani: White House Poetry Reading Leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and Secret Rejection Letter Anis Shivani 2011
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No one buys a book they never heard of -- but at the same time no one buys a book without picking it up and reading a few pages -- on- or off-line -- and falling in love.
M.J. Rose: The Writer as Willy Loman M.J. Rose 2011
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