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  • Not everyone accepts that India's struggles are down to wornout players.

    Tale of Woe for Weary Indians Jonathan Clegg 2011

  • Talk about a tired, wornout criticism that only appeals to GOP ideologues stuck in the 1980s.

    New RNC Ad: It's Obama Who Represents "More Of The Same" 2009

  • We know that socialist ideas, when implemented, fail time and time again, so why would we continue to go back to these wornout dogmas, as Obama stated in his inauguration address?

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2009 2009

  • A large part of this is extra National Guard salaries and allowances, purchase of supplies and replacing weapons/trucks/Humvees etc. that are destroyed or wornout.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Against the War Tax 2009

  • Then he began to pace, his wornout old brown shoes making scuffing sounds on the square of carpet.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • The result will be more true clunkers on the road — by that I mean the sort of cars that burn oil, shake and rattle, are covered with rust, are old enough to not have airbags, and cars that get poor mileage because the engines are wornout.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Cash for Clunkers Really Win-Win, as Representative Carnahan Says? 2009

  • The Secret Life of Our Times: New Fiction from Esquire showcased short stories that Lish had published in his three years at the magazine.43 The thick, expensive $12.95 book carried an introduction by Tom Wolfe, who wrote that Lish has “come to New York to turn his bizarre energies loose on this whining, wornout city.”

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • This is straight out of every cornball, wornout American low-budget TVspace adventure.

    Primeval S3 Ep 9 – Attack Of The Zombie Dialogue Monsters! « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • Then he began to pace, his wornout old brown shoes making scuffing sounds on the square of carpet.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Your propaganda tide of demonization has become an undertow and it is sweeping your wornout ideas and excuses for greed, out to sea.

    Enter The Sunlight 2008

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