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Examples
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Dina wastes no time selling unretrieved artwork, as well as other art he purchases from estate and bankruptcy sales ( "Every day I get a deal") - the artwork (Impressionism, Modern and contemporary art, with an occasional Old Master) forms The Dina Collection.
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Condors and other scavengers feed on the remains of animals shot and unretrieved by hunters, causing death up and down the food chain.
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When I would visit his crappy place out in the suburbs, we'd run past people's perfectly clipped lawns and their yappy little dogs, and the tricycles left outside, and the newspapers unretrieved at the end of driveways and cars parked crookedly alongside curbs.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jay 2008
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Also new on the list is retained surgical devices -- such as a sponge or clamp left in a patient -- and "unretrieved fragments," like a piece of a surgical tool that breaks off and either isn't noticed by the surgical team or is lodged in a part of the anatomy too risky to attempt retrieval.
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When I would visit his crappy place out in the suburbs, we'd run past people's perfectly clipped lawns and their yappy little dogs, and the tricycles left outside, and the newspapers unretrieved at the end of driveways and cars parked crookedly alongside curbs.
The Race Against Toronto Jay 2008
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They are looking for unretrieved clues, especially whatever may have weighed down Laci Peterson's body before it washed ashore last month along with the remains of her unborn son.
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And that's the focus of events now, and that's why, as I say, that we have heard that there may be more bodies there, unretrieved from inside that small pizza parlor.
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Misty, buffered by dumbness, unaware of the traffic jams in the blood flow of her master's brain: carbon freeways of cracked cement and flattened Camrys and Isuzus and F-lOOs; neural survivors as well as those neural victims, all as yet unretrieved from within the overpasses of her Self.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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* Use customizable messages when rewriting links to unretrieved files
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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* Use customizable messages when rewriting links to unretrieved files
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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