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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The harmonic conjugate of the tangent to a curve with respect to the lines joining its point of contact to two fixed points.
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Examples
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Maybe that monkey-faced-coconut seemed quasi-normal while you were growing up, but now when you go home to visit it gives you the creeps.
Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010
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Maybe that monkey-faced-coconut seemed quasi-normal while you were growing up, but now when you go home to visit it gives you the creeps.
Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010
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It sounds like Obama is trying to enjoy some quasi-normal time with his kids before he becomes president.
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Now, her kids' names are crazy, but what's interesting about them to me is that the girls have quasi-normal names, and it's the boys' names that are weirder.
This is almost too easy. bradamant 2008
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After the hipster bands played, their fans left, leaving a motley assortment of people with kids, people in Gryffindor scarves, and shifty-looking quasi-normal people, like us.
I could filter this, but I won't. alafairnadia 2006
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The moment of the creature's awakening, when Victor's dreams turn into disgust, does mark a transition between delight in the fecal child and quasi-normal disgust.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003
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Moreover, and just as interesting, many bands and singers explicitly link the most deplored themes in music today — suicide, misogyny, and drugs —with that lack of a quasi-normal, intact-home personal past.
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The spacecraft continues to maneuver, but in two separate modes: "regular," when the floor shakes and everything moves but a quasi-normal life can be lived, and "overdrive," when Rama accelerates at
The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992
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"There are people here trying to do well and survive and live a normal, quasi-normal, life."
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"There are people here trying to do well and survive and live a normal, quasi-normal, life."
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