Definitions
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- noun a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally
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Examples
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Any mention of immigration as a topic has been jumped on by mainstream left-wingers crying that the mentioner is some kind of horrible racist.
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Another person talked up by the great mentioner is Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a Vietnam War veteran whose foreign-policy views align surprisingly well with Obama’s.
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Et ne meme pas mentioner le fait que depuis cinq siecles l 'afrique a servi de marche pied a la revolution industriele occidentale, de l'esclavage a nos jours, quand il n'a pas hesite a remonter jusqu'au moyen-age pour rendre hommage a la contribution des arabes a la civilisation mondiale?!
Global Voices in English » Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms 2009
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Any mention of immigration as a topic has been jumped on by mainstream left-wingers crying that the mentioner is some kind of horrible racist.
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Et ne meme pas mentioner le fait que depuis cinq siecles l 'afrique a servi de marche pied a la revolution industriele occidentale, de l'esclavage a nos jours, quand il n'a pas hesite a remonter jusqu'au moyen-age pour rendre hommage a la contribution des arabes a la civilisation mondiale?!
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The great mentioner has a little list of names: Biden, yes; John Kerry, uh-huh, uh-huh; Edwards, well, there's talk.
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It is entitled "The Legends of the Rhine from Basle to Rotterdam," by F.J. Kiefer; translated by L.W. Garnham, B.A. All tourists mention the Rhine legends, -- in that sort of way which quietly pretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them all his life, and that the reader cannot possibly be ignorant of them -- but no tourist ever tells them.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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"That's the great 'mentioner' out there, and there are going to be a lot of people mentioned," said Arizona Democratic Party chairman Andrei Cherny.
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Yet the "great mentioner" has declared him presidential timber and tried to kick Bachmann to the curb.
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On the other hand, there are also many users (a lot more than the first category mentioner earlier) who want their portable computing system to come right out of the box with everything needed for normal use, from the office applications to the music and movie playback software, photo viewing applications, IM clients, etc.
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