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You have found another root, *bik-, passed down from the now-silent ancestor language.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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You have found another root, *bik-, passed down from the now-silent ancestor language.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Speaking of that, recall the massive but now-silent “911 Truth Movement”, another well-funded “protest group” with a rather Orwellian agenda?
Wonk Room » Dick Armey’s Clients Required The Bailouts That Armey’s FreedomWorks Is Now Protesting 2009
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Next door in Wapping Food, the stark brick walls and now-silent mint-green machinery contrast with the modern, seasonal food definitely book in for brunch.
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As though introducing Shah Jahan for the first time, the Mir Tozak said, his voice swinging over the now-silent courtyard, “Bow to the mighty Emperor who bears the names of his ancestor Amir Timur and the titles of Abul Muzaffar Shahabuddin Muhammad Sahib-i-qiran-i-sani Shah Jahan Padshah Ghazi.”
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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As though introducing Shah Jahan for the first time, the Mir Tozak said, his voice swinging over the now-silent courtyard, “Bow to the mighty Emperor who bears the names of his ancestor Amir Timur and the titles of Abul Muzaffar Shahabuddin Muhammad Sahib-i-qiran-i-sani Shah Jahan Padshah Ghazi.”
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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This, from the party of the now-silent cries of "drill, baby, drill."
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For the now-silent majority that elected Obama in 2008, that means forging ahead with solutions that the Tea Party avidly does not want right now -- spending on infrastructure and alternative energy, for example -- because those things are the right thing to do.
Will Bunch: What I Learned Behind the Lines of the Anti-Obama Backlash Will Bunch 2010
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For the now-silent majority that elected Obama in 2008, that means forging ahead with solutions that the Tea Party avidly does not want right now -- spending on infrastructure and alternative energy, for example -- because those things are the right thing to do.
Will Bunch: What I Learned Behind the Lines of the Anti-Obama Backlash 2010
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For the now-silent majority that elected Obama in 2008, that means forging ahead with solutions that the Tea Party avidly does not want right now -- spending on infrastructure and alternative energy, for example -- because those things are the right thing to do.
Will Bunch: What I Learned Behind the Lines of the Anti-Obama Backlash 2010
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