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- adverb In a
propulsive way.
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Examples
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Mr. Greif is one of New York's top directors, and his propulsively dynamic staging is as good as it could possibly be.
He's a Young Prince in a Jam Terry Teachout 2011
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, which arrives in American theaters (or at least a limited number, to start) on Friday (10/29/10), completes the trilogy of Swedish films that explored, to near perfection, Larsson's propulsively and complexly plotted story, which began with a journalist in disgrace and concludes, three films later, with a journalist taking on a clandestine and dangerous government conspiracy.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Marshall Fine 2010
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It closes itself into itself and stops, and the Shakespearean sonnet goes propulsively onward.
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And we didn't want to take it propulsively all the way to the surface because we didn't want to contaminate the surface; we wanted the Rover to immediately land on its legs.
Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers Charles Elachi 2008
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And we didn't want to take it propulsively all the way to the surface because we didn't want to contaminate the surface; we wanted the Rover to immediately land on its legs.
Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers Charles Elachi 2008
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And we didn't want to take it propulsively all the way to the surface because we didn't want to contaminate the surface; we wanted the Rover to immediately land on its legs.
Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers Charles Elachi 2008
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Chrome piping, like the housing for circuitry, led from conical yellow turn signals along the rounded sides of the car, all the way to the rear, where the vehicle flared propulsively into jet fins and rocket boosters.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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The band hammers out a propulsively groovy grunge-rock backbeat accented with crunching power chords.
London Free Press 2010
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Opener "Hustle" sounds like its name, a bumping, propulsively whispered track that shoves its banjos and interlocking grooves to the forefront.
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Opener "Hustle" sounds like its name, a bumping, propulsively whispered track that shoves its banjos and interlocking grooves to the forefront.
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