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  • noun Plural form of this.

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Examples

  • More managers and coordinators and chief thises and chief thats than people actually working these days.

    The Suicider (draft) Josh Cook 2011

  • Toasters, egg beaters, waffle irons, electric thises and thats.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • Toasters, egg beaters, waffle irons, electric thises and thats.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • They don't keep wanting things, special thises or thats.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • And we aggravate the problem by insisting on viewing one another not as full human beings but rather as the little shorthand demographic entities we find useful in our charts and press accounts-black thises, middle-class thats, conservative Baptist the other things.

    A Year Of Surprises 2008

  • QUESTION: Will someone please ask about the tapes (voice) made of thises meetings/

    Think Progress » Are some at the White House 2005

  • And you know, all countries expand, and there's shopping malls and thises and thats, but I've seen enough.

    A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 2002

  • The same too with former thises and thats: Kissinger, Baker, Scowcroft, they're on all the talk shows, agreeing or disagreeing with the president, their opinions dominating the op-ed pages.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2002 2002

  • But in the case of ‘thises’, it is possible to explain how the

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • FT&T won't function half as well as a bureaucracy, with this system or that system throwing its weight around and demanding preferential thises and thats.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

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