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- noun Plural form of
admeasurement .
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My favorites include: "Prisoners suffered rigorous information pursuit measures," "Prisoners experienced imposing information integration admeasurements," and "Detainees suffered magnified aquatic diagnostics."
'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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My favorites include: "Prisoners suffered rigorous information pursuit measures," "Prisoners experienced imposing information integration admeasurements," and "Detainees suffered magnified aquatic diagnostics."
'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing Jason Linkins 2010
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My favorites include: "Prisoners suffered rigorous information pursuit measures," "Prisoners experienced imposing information integration admeasurements," and "Detainees suffered magnified aquatic diagnostics."
'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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My favorites include: "Prisoners suffered rigorous information pursuit measures,""Prisoners experienced imposing information integration admeasurements," and "Detainees suffered magnified aquatic diagnostics."
'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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These admeasurements I now propose to set before you.
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When men of these qualities, aiming at the same or a like object, meet to compare their respective admeasurements of its parallax made from as many different points, they cannot fail to approach accuracy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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The fissure, just at the bridge, is, by some admeasurements, 270 feet deep, by others only 205.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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These admeasurements I now propose to set before you.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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But hereupon a fierce contest rose among them, concerning feet and inches; they cracked each other's sconces with their yard-sticks -- the great skull echoed -- and seizing that lucky chance, I quickly concluded my own admeasurements.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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These admeasurements I now propose to set before you.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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