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- noun Plural form of
pseudo .
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Examples
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There's more than a few of us pseudos out there, actually.
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When Democrats lost elections, the pseudos raked those Democrats over the coals, but threw up their hands when it came to the opposition and said, "Hey, those Republicans are better than we are at this campaigning stuff - what are you gonna do?"
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A shakeout is certainly the need of the hour, the way Ken Wilber conducted recently to segregate his followers from the pseudos.
Split loyalty Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Some think they are doing iterative but they are not pseudos, eg.
UML Distilled Bill Kerr 2006
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Thus freed from the methodological constraints of intersubjective discourse, the critical authority of the writer's voice now subsists solely on its ability to simulate or conjure the proton pseudos of ineffable, contingent experience — itself no longer represented to a discrete listener but, instead, transferentially reproduced through an identically situated addressee.
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The whips, leaves, branches and spines of the various plants and plantlike pseudos were moving in the light breeze to create a background murmur, but there were no large animals other than human beings and Observers now on Earth.
The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980
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Well, then, let me ask about the greatest and noblest, such as aletheia (truth) and pseudos (falsehood) and on (being), not forgetting to enquire why the word onoma (name), which is the theme of our discussion, has this name of onoma.
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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"You are only risking — how many? — three male and a dozen female pseudos," Cornelius replied.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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It isn't the pseudos that are so expensive, it's their transportation.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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And then, you argued very strongly for Anglesey's scheme, this sending down the other pseudos.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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