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We call it "Tangential" in my profession and it infers "acute distress", "possibly Psychotic", or "confabulating" (usually happen to our demented grandparents). illinois for obama!
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Tangential or not, it (the underlying crime) is unseverable in this debate, i.e., on the issue of defining police “misconduct” in any given case.
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Tangential — on economist. com, Google reports 300-some hits for “laissez-faire” and 180-some for “laisser-faire”.
Annals of Strange Prescriptions: Under the circumstances « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Tangential or not, it (the underlying crime) is unseverable in this debate, i.e., on the issue of defining police “misconduct” in any given case.
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Tangential, but important - and the original issue reiterated. acat
Unplug Education. No Computers In Schools. - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2010
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Tangential thanks to: Inge Heyer and the Shore Leave staff for having me as a writer guest at their fabulous convention.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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Tangential evidence for how nurture, rather than nature, forms our collective musical brains and ears comes from 18th-century mathematician Robert Smith, quoted in Ross Duffin's mind-opening book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care).
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Then I learned something about Tangential plots and since that is basically what I'm writing (only now I have a word for it) I have a better shot of sculpting this thing into a real novel.
NaNoWriMo 20,000 word mark joshenglish 2008
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But given all the sideline storylines that surround a movie this huge, Comic Riffs offers you, as well, the Seven Tangential Reasons to See 'Toy Story 3' this weekend.
Seven Best Tangential Reasons to See 'Toy Story 3' this weekend [UPDATED] 2010
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Tangential from fidelio: I did see someone online, in all apparent seriousness, arguing that the change from "one in being with the Father" to "consubstantial with the Father" was preferable because the small words trick us into thinking we can comprehend the mystery of the Trinity, and the big word tells us that we can't.
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