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Examples
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Recently such a result in Ivory Coast led to a civil war before Laurent Gbagbo could be winkled out of the presidential palace at the end of a gun barrel.
The Real Legacy of Nelson Mandela Peter Godwin 2011
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He looked like a brilliant scientist winkled out of his lab in order to accept a Nobel prize.
MPs putting Dr Malcolm Jack on the rack over phone hack Simon Hoggart 2010
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Eventually the Supt is winkled out-fortunately he knows me and is practical minded-he agrees with my judgement and the whole thing goes to CPS who say-reasonable chastisement.
Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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She would just giggle, putting a winkled hand over her pocked face.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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They think that they finally have men nailed: that, after 50,000 years, the superior female mind has winkled out every foible and fantasy lurking in the murky recesses of what passes for the male brain.
May 2007 Maxine 2007
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They think that they finally have men nailed: that, after 50,000 years, the superior female mind has winkled out every foible and fantasy lurking in the murky recesses of what passes for the male brain.
Sorry, ladies, says Richard Morrison Maxine 2007
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They think that they finally have men nailed: that, after 50,000 years, the superior female mind has winkled out every foible and fantasy lurking in the murky recesses of what passes for the male brain.
Sorry, ladies, says Richard Morrison Maxine 2007
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Over the last eight years we have been bull winkled to believe lies over obvious ‘proof’ of the failed policies of the Republican Party.
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As some of you have winkled, it is indeed my birthday today, and I claim thirty-seven years on this fête day although I do NOT countenance the torching of blue silk dresses today or any day, under the influence of absinthe or not.
August 2008 2008
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As some of you have winkled, it is indeed my birthday today, and I claim thirty-seven years on this fête day although I do NOT countenance the torching of blue silk dresses today or any day, under the influence of absinthe or not.
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