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Youse fizzy-sists is way beyond this pore 'ol rocket engineer's "event horizon"!
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The Superfood cast con sists of a banana, a brick of low-fat cheese, a whole wheat bun and a stalk of broccoli.
Oz Garcia: Sesame Street Improves Childhood Nutrition One Muppet At A Time Oz Garcia 2010
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And there are good reason why middle-class malaise per sists, and won't be cured by a tax break or an upswing in the economic cycle.
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At best, as the greatest rationalist, Kant, concluded, it can map the phenomena but cannot speak of the noumenon except to say that it exists or "in-sists".
Supersensible, supralogical, transrational Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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The group usually con - sists of about 20 heads of family.
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The carbohydrate con sists mainly of starch of granule size ranging from 10 to 65 microns.
Chapter 37 1987
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FidoNet, which was started in 1984, now con - sists of more than 7,000 computers, or nodes, run by local system administrators.
What We Didn't Know About Slavery Rose, Willie Lee 1974
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At its most austere, neo-classical art con - sists only of outline with no modelling or spatial depth; even in more fully modelled paintings and friezes the action is contained within a narrow shelf-like space.
NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART DAVID IRWIN 1968
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Otto's originality con - sists in his highly personal understanding of Greek religion, and of the non-Christian religions in general.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968
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Benedetti argued that since sound con - sists of air waves or vibrations, in the more consonant intervals the shorter more frequent waves concurred with the longer less frequent waves at regular intervals.
MUSIC AND SCIENCE CLAUDE V. PALISCA 1968
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