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- adjective Without, or
irrespective of,culture (customs and habits).
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Examples
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Johnson once told me when I was visiting him and his long-term, constant intellectual partner and wife, Sheila Johnson, that the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies no longer either really taught international relations or pacific studies -- and that a student's entire first year was focused on acultural skill set development in economics and statistics.
Steve Clemons: The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson Steve Clemons 2010
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Our time inFijihas been acultural exchangein the best sense of the word.
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Johnson once told me when I was visiting him and his long-term, constant intellectual partner and wife, Sheila Johnson, that the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies no longer either really taught international relations or pacific studies -- and that a student's entire first year was focused on acultural skill set development in economics and statistics.
Steve Clemons: The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson Steve Clemons 2010
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Johnson once told me when I was visiting him and his long-term, constant intellectual partner and wife, Sheila Johnson, that the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies no longer either really taught international relations or pacific studies -- and that a student's entire first year was focused on acultural skill set development in economics and statistics.
Steve Clemons: The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson Steve Clemons 2010
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As for culture – I like to claim that I am acultural or that all my culture comes from cartoons, plus I know a lot of song lyrics and lines from movies which to me counts as culture.
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The Sloan had doubted his ability to stoop to the acultural depths of sportscasting.
Murder Without Icing Lathen, Emma, pseud 1972
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The addition of a dozen or so newly renovated rooms in the bowels of the Capitol represents acultural shift in the custom-bound institution, made possible by moving a Capitol Police facility from the building's basement into the new, $621 million Capitol Visitor Center.
ajc.com - News 2010
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Now to go straight to the heart of the matter, we begin to suspect that an 'acultural language' is something more or less like Kant's 'Thing-in-itself'.
"MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader Daniel Rourke 2010
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What he saw as distinctive of capitalism was the disembedding of markets - and the transformation of 'the economy' into abstract, acultural spaces.
Kafila 2009
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What he saw as distinctive of capitalism was the disembedding of markets - and the transformation of 'the economy' into abstract, acultural spaces.
Kafila 2009
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