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On the road: VW Polo BlueMotion 1.2 TDI 75 Andrew Anthony 2010
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Parsimonious here means ‘needing to postulate the minimum amount of evolutionary change’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Parsimonious here means ‘needing to postulate the minimum amount of evolutionary change’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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* Parsimonious sparing in its proposed entities or explanations, see Occam's Razor
Science, Evolution, and Creationism (Free Book Download) Steve Caldwell 2008
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Parsimonious critique by delia on Thursday, Aug 23, 2007 at 12: 55: 13 PM
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Parsimonious of all he observed, he never related a typical anecdote, or offered a suggestive remark.
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Parsimonious of all he observed, he never related a typical anecdote, or offered a suggestive remark.
Une Vie 2003
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Parsimonious writers would have made half-a-dozen novels out of the stuff of Mrs. CREED'S book.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 Various 1898
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Parsimonious in nothing but his time, whereof he made as much improvement, with as little loss as any man in it, when he had any to spare from his drudging practice, he was scarce patient of any diversion from his study: so impatient of sloth and idleness, that he would say, he could not do nothing.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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Parsimonious of all he observed, he never related a typical anecdote, or offered a suggestive remark.
Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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