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Examples
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As a cheese fiend, I shuffle towards the latter, but have resigned myself to the flakier charms of puff, it being the standard shop-bought offering.
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Do any shop-bought ones cut the mustard, and what do you like to serve them with?
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The U.K. job market deteriorated at its fastest rate in more than two years in November, and prices of shop-bought goods eased, new surveys showed, reflecting the plunge in consumer confidence.
What's News— 2011
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It will keep for up to two weeks in the fridge, and you'll find it tastes much better than shop-bought stuff.
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In another sign of falling consumer demand, prices of shop-bought goods in November rose at their slowest rate in a year.
More Gloom for U.K. Job Market Alex Brittain 2011
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LONDON—The U.K. job market deteriorated at its fastest rate in more than two years in November, and prices of shop-bought goods eased, two private surveys showed, reflecting the plunge in consumer confidence that has undermined U.K. growth.
More Gloom for U.K. Job Market Alex Brittain 2011
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The male complainant told regulators he was angered by the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance.
South Africa Bans Axe Deodorant's 'Sexy Angels' Ad For Offending Christians (VIDEO) 2011
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She was characterised by her very specific sense of failure, which was rueful but nonchalant at the same time: Pearson's iconic image had Kate Reddy smashing up shop-bought mince pies to make them look as though she'd made them herself.
Come back 'Superwoman': the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work 2011
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It doesn't have to cost a lot to change shop-bought stock, and I find the easiest way to determine what's going to be comfortable is to stand over the kitchen sink and set yourself up as if you're about to wash up.
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I've always considered it the preserve of the shop-bought trifle, and as such, rather beneath my dignity, but Helen Saberi makes a convincing case for it as "a solid sheet of load-bearing substance – the counterpart of a screeded concrete floor".
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