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To show that your underlying form is not a specimen taken from a living or written language, you use the asterisk that linguists have adopted to represent any pieced-together verbal relics: *katij-.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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To show that your underlying form is not a specimen taken from a living or written language, you use the asterisk that linguists have adopted to represent any pieced-together verbal relics: *katij-.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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She discovers his pieced-together home in the dry woods, and despite (or perhaps because of) the language barrier, she connects deeply with him.
National Book Award finalist, 'Dark Water' by Laura McNeal Post 2010
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She discovers his pieced-together home in the dry woods, and despite (or perhaps because of) the language barrier, she connects deeply with him.
National Book Award finalist, 'Dark Water' by Laura McNeal Post 2010
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Earth is approximately sixty-thousand light years away from Erunsion Prime courtesy of my pieced-together map of her and my sides of the galaxy.
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St. Louis also is without Andy McDonald (broken ankle) and defenseman Eric Brewer (back), but coach Andy Murray said his pieced-together roster has not bemoaned the injuries.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Selick is the stop-motion freak who gave us “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach,” and from the clips I saw, this meticulously pieced-together picture is going to be dark, spooky fun.
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Last year, I nearly rented an office in a building made from pieced-together containers -- it was a beautiful space, but I ended up going with something cheaper (a space in a rotting Victorian factory in Clerkenwell).
Boing Boing 2008
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Unlike the so-called 2007 "grand bargain" on immigration, which went down in flames when negotiators defected from the pieced-together bill, the health care package Wyden envisions would be shepherded by two powerful chairman, Max Baucus (D-MT) of the Senate Finance Committee and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) of the Senate health committee.
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Similarly, Inman reported that he sought to create Roland and J.T. Cole from scratch, not from pieced-together accounts -- and yet, people who knew the men and the time period have told him that he "nailed" them.
Holly Goddard Jones: Women Gather to Celebrate Reading in Nashville, Tennessee 2009
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