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- adverb In a
blistering manner.
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Examples
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Speaking of Karzai, one should recall the blisteringly informative session between him and Palin, in which the press was given access for less than 2 minutes.
Wajahat Ali: Dangerous Liaisons: The Pakistani Gangsta' and The American Pit Bull 2008
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It's a tool designed to achieve a single and narrow minded goal ... that is to say blisteringly quick around the track.
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And there's Precious, the blisteringly raw account of a 16-year-old girl from Harlem, abused in every conceivable way, who learns to rise above her achingly terrible life.
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Giant, hulking water trucks are still making their deliveries to camps and residential areas, the sun is still blisteringly hot, and traffic along the city's main arteries is still atrocious.
Susana Ferreira: Everyone has Cholera on Their Mind Susana Ferreira 2010
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I like the way in which the "Americans" are shown as alien beings, as the Other in a hitherto stable and settled society; I think that being shown oneself (and for these purposes I am certainly an "American") as others see one is always a good thing, and Munif does this blisteringly well.
Linkspam for 17-6-2009 nwhyte 2009
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His style -- with its blisteringly bright hues and deep shadows -- should prove a strong match for Morrison's psychedelic-noir approach.
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Giant, hulking water trucks are still making their deliveries to camps and residential areas, the sun is still blisteringly hot, and traffic along the city's main arteries is still atrocious.
Susana Ferreira: Everyone has Cholera on Their Mind Susana Ferreira 2010
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Giant, hulking water trucks are still making their deliveries to camps and residential areas, the sun is still blisteringly hot, and traffic along the city's main arteries is still atrocious.
Susana Ferreira: Everyone has Cholera on Their Mind Susana Ferreira 2010
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That's blisteringly cynical and misogynistic; a lot of women who are pro-choice do "choose life."
She Had a Choice 2009
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Then, when he reached the chorus, he switched the tempo and played the Vincent Youmans melody blisteringly fast—it seemed more like tea for 200—approaching the pure supersonic speed that was the province of Bud Powell.
Swinging Down in the Basement and Out in the Garden Will Friedwald 2011
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