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- adverb In a
hefty manner.
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Examples
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And thus was born the Bruce High Quality Foundation University -- a free, unaccredited MFA program whose classes are now heftily frequented by overgrown semiotics students and stunted cultural influencers alike.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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And thus was born the Bruce High Quality Foundation University -- a free, unaccredited MFA program whose classes are now heftily frequented by overgrown semiotics students and stunted cultural influencers alike.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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And thus was born the Bruce High Quality Foundation University -- a free, unaccredited MFA program whose classes are now heftily frequented by overgrown semiotics students and stunted cultural influencers alike.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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It will not only give the rich the access to office they crave, I mean, deserve, but will also contribute heftily to reducing the budget deficit.
Benjamin R. Barber: Selling the USA to the Highest Bidder and Paying Off the National Debt Benjamin R. Barber 2012
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And thus was born the Bruce High Quality Foundation University -- a free, unaccredited MFA program whose classes are now heftily frequented by overgrown semiotics students and stunted cultural influencers alike.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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Nations tend to spend heftily on conventional equipment and training, and therefore default to depending on them.
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Nations tend to spend heftily on conventional equipment and training, and therefore default to depending on them.
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Yet, someone like Sarah Palin get's paid heftily for the very same infraction.
Lennard Davis: Palingerism: A Neologism For Our TIme Lennard Davis 2010
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Nations tend to spend heftily on conventional equipment and training, and therefore default to depending on them.
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Nations tend to spend heftily on conventional equipment and training, and therefore default to depending on them.
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