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- noun Plural form of
postmortem .
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One story line that has featured prominently in the postmortems is Harold Ickes’s attempts to alert the campaign to the importance of the party’s complicated system of allotting delegates — a system that Obama’s campaign cleverly exploited, by focusing on delegate-rich caucus states.
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One story line that has featured prominently in the postmortems is Harold Ickes’s attempts to alert the campaign to the importance of the party’s complicated system of allotting delegates — a system that Obama’s campaign cleverly exploited, by focusing on delegate-rich caucus states.
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Almost lost in the postmortems was the combined potential of Viacom, Paramount and Blockbuster Entertainment.
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Bodies of four Egyptian Copts killed in clashes with the army, partially covered with ice in an attempt to preserve them for postmortems.
The attack on Egyptian Christians was not sectarian. We will uncover the truth | Ahdaf Soueif 2011
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The young friends of the murdered are – physically – holding on to their bodies, fanning them, packing them in ice, forcing the public prosecutor to order postmortems, persuading their families to allow them, bringing in trusted doctors to perform them.
The attack on Egyptian Christians was not sectarian. We will uncover the truth | Ahdaf Soueif 2011
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Its says postmortems on donors before transplantation are impossible as they would take too long and render organs unusable.
Transplant patients given kidneys from donor with cancer 2011
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The books are closing, the tributes and postmortems are filed.
Adjusting to Life Without Tebow Jason Gay 2012
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Summing up the evidence the judge, Peter Thornton QC, sitting as assistant deputy coroner at the hearing at the International Dispute Resolution Centre, in Fleet Street, London, also reminded the jury that Patel had been suspended twice by a General Medical Council disciplinary panel in recent months over botched postmortems and for dishonesty; and one of the findings against him was that he had shown inflexibility over taking on new information.
Ian Tomlinson inquest: medical queries addressed to Freddy Patel 2011
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However, critics of Marvel's handling of the announcement are a little more vocal: Todd Allen and Brian Hibbs both offer interesting postmortems, with the former focusing on marketing and the latter concentrating on retailers.
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Committee members insisted Sunday they hadn't given up but their comments sounded like postmortems.
Deficit Effort Nears Collapse Naftali Bendavid 2011
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