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- noun Plural form of
underlayment .
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It’s something music can do well: evoke the feeling of a text in underlayments, make it palpable through rhythm and phrasing.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Words, Working Double-Time 2007
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Self-finishing interior floor toppings and underlayments specially formulated to produce smooth surfaces ready for the installation of ceramic tile, resilient flooring or other finishes.
concrete finishing 2002
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They are trained on everything from roofing underlayments to fastening systems for the metal panels.
lsj.com - News 2009
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… but also, something else rising up from the tragedy in Mumbai, besides men who murder, something else ugly and unredeemed, something that turns me away from writing an obituary about Alan and Naomi, and instead turning a phenomenon over and over, an ugly one, that has grown up around Alan and Naomi's deaths … one that I think eerily portrays a holograph of 'terrorist psychological motives and underlayments' …. in microcosm.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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… but also, something else rising up from the tragedy in Mumbai, besides men who murder, something else ugly and unredeemed, something that turns me away from writing an obituary about Alan and Naomi, and instead turning a phenomenon over and over, an ugly one, that has grown up around Alan and Naomi's deaths … one that I think eerily portrays a holograph of 'terrorist psychological motives and underlayments' …. in microcosm.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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… but also, something else rising up from the tragedy in Mumbai, besides men who murder, something else ugly and unredeemed, something that turns me away from writing an obituary about Alan and Naomi, and instead turning a phenomenon over and over, an ugly one, that has grown up around Alan and Naomi's deaths … one that I think eerily portrays a holograph of 'terrorist psychological motives and underlayments' …. in microcosm.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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… but also, something else rising up from the tragedy in Mumbai, besides men who murder, something else ugly and unredeemed, something that turns me away from writing an obituary about Alan and Naomi, and instead turning a phenomenon over and over, an ugly one, that has grown up around Alan and Naomi's deaths … one that I think eerily portrays a holograph of 'terrorist psychological motives and underlayments' …. in microcosm.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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