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  • 'I want you to think of this place as at stage set,

    Twin Moons 2010

  • Facing competition from iPhones and other devices that have caught on with the high school set,

    Numbers Don't Add Up for a TI Calculator 2009

  • Hillary Clinton, and to a lesser degree Barack Obama, are favorites among the corporate set,

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • From that instant onwards our civilization's historical trajectory was set,

    Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted 2009

  • In an attempt to construct a consistent social ranking of a set of alternatives on the basis of individual preferences over this set,

    Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008

  • The evolution of Sinatra -- who himself came to deeply influence both popular singers and jazz instrumentalists -- is celebrated in a four-CD set,

    The Springtime of Frank Sinatra 2007

  • However, in a language such as set theory (as usually interpreted) or second-order logic, in which there is a quantifier ˜all X™ permitting quantification over all subsets of a given set,

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set,

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • After going just 1-for-8 in the first two games of the set,

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • As an heiress and bone fide member of the old money set,

    Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005

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