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On the other hand, enough of a backlash from bad drugs, and science self-corrects.
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To some degree, the Twitter world itself self-corrects, with plenty of comments and debate about opening night kinks.
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And now I can actually see a plausible interpretation that Santorum mistakenly starts to say the word lives before he says people's, so he then self-corrects, adding people's before he repeats lives again.
Sam Sommers: Santorum: Freudian Slip or Stutter? Sam Sommers 2012
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All things change -- low blood sugar usually self-corrects with calories; irrational tantrums resolve, and increasing self-awareness improves prevention.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Hypoglycemia: Be Aware or Beware! 2010
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The idea of a system of thought that respects all valid contributors, and continuously expands and self-corrects, is an anathema to such minds.
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To some degree, the Twitter world itself self-corrects, with plenty of comments and debate about opening night kinks.
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Second, the person who writes error-free code or self-corrects quickly may not be recognized as a high-quality producer.
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These sites of displacements are merely where the greatest manufactured landscape in the history of the world — Jefferson's continental quilt — self-corrects against the curvature of the earth from deforming its neat rectangular townships and sections into unequal trapezoids.
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Price increases are the natural and healthy way that the market self-corrects.
Hillary Hits Airwaves In Indiana: "With Gas This Expensive, Talk Is Cheap" 2009
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These sites of displacements are merely where the greatest manufactured landscape in the history of the world — Jefferson's continental quilt — self-corrects against the curvature of the earth from deforming its neat rectangular townships and sections into unequal trapezoids.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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