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  • adjective nonstandard Alternative form of well-known.

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Examples

  • They refer to the wellknown example of managers who are pressured to meet quarterly earnings goals, causing them to ignore long-term strategic problems.

    Why Goal Setting Can Lead To Disaster 2009

  • On October 7, 1982, The New York Times available in archives described the situation: Mr. Emery had a 2-to-1 lead in polls a year ago, his name wellknown after four successful House races; Mr. Mitchell had left the obscurity of a Federal judgeship for a Senate appointment in 1980 when Edmund S.

    10/23/2007 2007

  • It seemed to me that a major difficulty in the sustained reading of Ulysses lay in the gradual accumulation of irritations: simple errors, eccentric and wrong spellings, flawed punctuation, excessive use of compounds (as in "wellknown," "illusing," "softlyfeatured"), mistakes that might or might not have significance, absurd potential symbolisms (such as Kidd's conflation of Captain Buller with Byron), the consequent necessity of footnotes, all embodied in an outdated typographical layout.

    'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange Rose, Danis 1998

  • The AA Museum in Philadelphia has a lovely exhibit on some of the wellknown Black elite in the city.

    The Black Elite in America | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • And the detrimental effect of agriculture on the planet is wellknown.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Are Carbs Worse than Fat? 2010

  • The thing they said is fundamental is very wellknown:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa Constitution’s Due Process Clause Bars Propensity-to-Commit-Crime Evidence 2010

  • And the detrimental effect of agriculture on the planet is wellknown.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Are Carbs Worse than Fat? 2010

  • There are at least three wellknown stories abut how the song came into existence.

    Writing in Music « Write Anything 2009

  • It is crucial to stress as forcefully as possible that he was, to use the wellknown opposition made famous by Isaiah Berlin, a hedgehog, even though his contributions in different fields made some think of him as a fox.

    'Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography' 2010

  • Who knows too many websites that have gay jokes or contain posts outing celebrities or wellknown names who are still allegedly in the closet and too eagerly to pass on that information to others to draw people 'attentions away from you whenever a gay matter is mentioned?

    Dale Is Hamilton-Miller Newmania 2008

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