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Examples
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She was, she explains, a newbie, "wet behind the ears", unused to the horrors of the cyber bearpit.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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But Coffey, we find, wasn't always from Suffolk Coastal; she cut her political teeth in the bearpit of Hampshire politics, and she wasn't always so squeamish about the use of questionable info to gain advantage.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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By now, Stadio Giuseppe Meazza no longer feels quite like the bearpit of old.
Arsenal aim to find streetwise edge against Milan in Champions League | Daniel Taylor 2012
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As a dissident spirit, romantically attached to standup's delinquent youth, Lee may be appalled to think it – but this is standup going legit, staking its claim to a place in the library as well as the beer-spattered bearpit.
Standup has grown up – but that doesn't mean it is great literature 2011
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Others suggest that all convicted prisoners be barred from seeking compensation? which has at least the merit of consistency, but is astonishingly short-sighted, unless we want prison to become a lawless medieval bearpit.
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Sour lemons is, as Lynn implies, what he deserves for indulging in the juvenile traditions of the Parliamentary bearpit.
Ed Balls-up: crisis, what crisis? Stephen Tall 2008
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Clive Crook: The Financial Times - The highest political bearpit in the land
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Clive Crook: The Financial Times - The highest political bearpit in the land
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Clive Crook: The Financial Times - The highest political bearpit in the land
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Nor was the bearpit format much better, with members of the public brought in to make their one point come what may.
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