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- proper noun Common misspelling of
Cretaceous .
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Work Study for the Office of Stalking Alumni, spending a couple hours a day finding where people relocated and updating them in a Cretacious-era database so our people could continue to call them and ask for mon-ay.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2008
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Well WE would too if we saw the End of the Cretacious coming at us like that....
Three Horns... Zillabob 2007
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Cretacious, CO2 continuously falls while temperature stays constant
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Eocene into the Cretacious, is conclusive of the point we would make, that no great evolutional changes have taken place in the last two or three million years, and none are likely to take place in the next million years, except that the _Sequoia gigantea_ may drop out, from the vandalism of man or the next glacial drift.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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He said he has excavated 14 dinosaurs, 475 dinosaur tracks, 86 human footprints and 7 cat prints from the Cretacious limestone along the Paluxy River ...
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Those reasons will range from what might be called the “spiritual” — because it’s the destiny of humankind and a good first step to the stars — to the exceedingly practical: our species won’t survive another rock like the one that put an end the Cretacious; we’re 15 million years overdue, so we have to go out and stop it, the topic of a lecture I delivered to the Eris Society in 2000.
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a Cretacious specimen now in need of a publicity campaign.
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