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- noun Quoted before in the prior portion of the text.
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								This amounts to asking people to promote the movie on Facebook; Tsotis noted that, and joked about it, calling the above-quoted hype a "buzzwordgasm". The Guardian World News Sady Doyle 2011 
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								The question was whether the above-quoted language of Article III was meant to override the sovereign immunity that kept states from being sued in state courts. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010 
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								So here's my response to the above-quoted new profile features: Charlotte Safavi: Facebook Is Forcing My Profile Changes Charlotte Safavi 2011 
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								So here's my response to the above-quoted new profile features: Charlotte Safavi: Facebook Is Forcing My Profile Changes Charlotte Safavi 2011 
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								Please name me one example of a “small business” where the above-quoted example might be applicable. Matthew Yglesias » DeMint: The Richest 0.7 Percent of the Population is “Lots of People” 2009 
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								I enjoyed West Virginia -- in fact, read it twice -- but I can't finally say what the book is "about," although the above-quoted passage does invoke several of the motifs and images that recur throughout the text: a room, "the people," an incident in Wheeling, which may have involved a rape, a killing, child abuse, a fire. Experimental Fiction 2010 
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								Frankly, I really don't know what any of the declarations made in the above-quoted passage are even supposed to mean. Style in Fiction 2009 
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								Longstanding House precedents have not found such interests to warrant abstention under the above-quoted House Rule that instructs Members to vote on each question presented unless they have ― a direct personal or pecuniary interest in the event of such question. David Fiderer: How the Charges Against Maxine Waters Were Fabricated Out of Next to Nothing 2010 
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								We're tired of places like National Review Online publishing nonsense like the above-quoted. 
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								We're tired of places like National Review Online publishing nonsense like the above-quoted. 
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