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Now Dick and Liz Cheney along with Rove will appear on FAUX news and pump-up their MacCarthyist hype-up the hate and fear agenda.
Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009
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I wonder if this is an isolated error, or they are trying to do a short-term pump-up of their subscriber base …. —
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Babes are what follow Shaun Murray and Parks Bonifay, as they attend wakeboarding parties and pump-up rallies, as they eat in restaurants and walk to their convertibles.
Waketaurs 2010
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If you want the pump-up stuff, then play the game.
TR2N Helmer Joseph Kosinski Directs Gears of War 2 | /Film 2008
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The listening experience is helped immeasurably by McLarty's artful narration and stronger-than-usual production values including effective music and sound effects that pump-up the action.
Tom Alderman: The Camel Club Meets Again -- An Audio Book Review 2009
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Plus you really can't mix in the Sheridan pump-up gun with spring piston air rifles ... the pneumatic guns are three times as loud and less accurate, less powerful, etc ...
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So does this pump-up one dictator and perhaps embolden others?
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"Couples asked to play Vijay Singh, and he beat him, and when they had their team get-together, and pump-up session, Freddy was quite emotional."
USATODAY.com - 'Dynamic' Leetch signed as Bruins' missing piece 2005
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So, you know, this is a good -- this is a good pump-up for him.
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So that's kind of a little pump-up thing we'll always do.
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