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- noun Plural form of
nixie . - noun Plural form of
nixy .
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Examples
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Salt Lake's nixies land on a table where nixie clerks take a last stab at divining where they're supposed to go.
Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security for Post Office's Scribble Specialists Barry Newman 2011
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At the 'Mail Recovery Center' in Atlanta, clerks sift nixies for documents and cash.
Letters' Last Hope 2011
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Its clerks will open nixies that show signs of harboring documents or cash.
Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security for Post Office's Scribble Specialists Barry Newman 2011
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Packed with fairy and folk tales mostly European but with a smattering of African and Asian, stories of water nixies, selkies, boggarts, pixies, fairies and much more, the whole of the Arthurian cycle and the myths and legends of the gods, goddesses and heroes of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, it also held more nursery rhymes than I have ever seen anywhere since.
From Then to Now - a Writing Journey Imagine me 2009
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Packed with fairy and folk tales mostly European but with a smattering of African and Asian, stories of water nixies, selkies, boggarts, pixies, fairies and much more, the whole of the Arthurian cycle and the myths and legends of the gods, goddesses and heroes of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, it also held more nursery rhymes than I have ever seen anywhere since.
Archive 2009-12-01 Satima Flavell 2009
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So today we use terms like “doubling date”, “soft offer”, “CPM”, “CPO”, “nixies” and “conversion”.
Archive 2008-05-01 Tony Rossell 2008
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So today we use terms like “doubling date”, “soft offer”, “CPM”, “CPO”, “nixies” and “conversion”.
Glossary of Direct Marketing Membership and Circulation Terms Tony Rossell 2008
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One cannot even find fault with the tiny round hole which they leave when they are taken out; perhaps water-nixies, and such lovely things without souls, have these little round holes in their ears by nature, ready to hang jewels in.
Adam Bede 2004
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He needed a Nexus under his control, one that would allow his followers-boggles and boghans, his bane-sidhes, water-horses, nixies, and the like-to move freely in the world of Men.
Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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He needed a Nexus under his control, one that would allow his followers-boggles and boghans, his bane-sidhes, water-horses, nixies, and the like'to move freely in the world of Men.
Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000
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