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Examples
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After deciding to get the offending "quack's" medical license revoked, I felt better.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Exploring Integrative Veterinary Practice Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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Contrary to this quack's beliefs, I would say freedom of choice, voluntary co-operation and moral integrity were the very essence of liberalism.
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But then again how could you not laugh at a quack's shameless self-promotion?
Book Review: Doctor of Love Heather Carroll 2008
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Is it a safe way to stay young or what do think a quack's remedy for wrinkles?
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This is FOX's notion of "fair and balanced," but in reality it's quite dangerous because FOX marginalizes the expert's claim while legitimizing the quack's opinion.
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"So you feel she ought to be locked up in that quack's loony bin?"
Tek Kill Shatner, William 1996
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In two seconds I had foreseen what was to follow - Solomon's recollection that he had only yesterday proposed just such a holiday, the quack's booming agreement that a sea voyage in comfort was the ideal thing, Morrison's reluctance being eventually over-borne by Elspeth's entreaties and the pill-slinger's stern admonition - you could have set it all to music and sung the damned thing.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Nyuk Tsin had to keep her diseased husband-for the quack's medication did no good whatever-away from public view, for that year there had been a general roundup of lepers, and some one hundred and sixty had been shipped off to the leper island to perpetual banishment and slow death; suspicious watchers had perfected tricks whereby to trap unsuspected lepers.
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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He became the Burning Man who had inspired himself with terror and perplexity on the beach in Australia, in a quack's office in Shanghai, on the Spanish Stairs in Rome, on the Moon, in the Skoptsy Colony on Mars.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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He became the Burning Man who had inspired himself with terror and perplexity on the beach in Australia, in a quack's office in Shanghai, on the Spanish Stairs in Rome, on the Moon, in the Skoptsy Colony on Mars.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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