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Examples
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Alice's mother has a penchant for the psychiatric and wants to be her bottled-up daughter's confidante.
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But behind these rationales the fuel is bottled-up anger.
Deepak Chopra: How To Love Your Enemies (Really) Deepak Chopra 2011
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DS: It all came about like a bottled-up sound waiting to get out.
Mike Ragogna: The Blackbird Diaries: Chatting with Dave Stewart, Plus Nightmare and the Cat's Sam & Django Stewart Mike Ragogna 2011
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The interesting aspect of the press treatment of Blago, to my mind, is that it was almost a kind of transference of all the bottled-up “respect for the presidency” bullshit that left them lapdogs to Bush.
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Speaking of witches: Bonnie absorbs the power of 100 dead witches from the days of the Salem witch trials and plans to use all that bottled-up mojo against Klaus, even if it's her last act on earth.
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But behind these rationales the fuel is bottled-up anger.
Deepak Chopra: How To Love Your Enemies (Really) Deepak Chopra 2011
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I find that I can weather about an hour of a business meeting before the bottled-up thoughts make my head explode.
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DS: It all came about like a bottled-up sound waiting to get out.
Mike Ragogna: The Blackbird Diaries: Chatting with Dave Stewart, Plus Nightmare and the Cat's Sam & Django Stewart Mike Ragogna 2011
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His bottled-up rage explodes at the expense of an unfortunate redneck, after which he releases a primal scream in front of Harry's encouraging ghost, which sends Dexter back in time to deliver a touching eulogy at Rita's graveside.
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He plays a bottled-up menace, the son from hell, terrorizing the life of his mom's new boyfriend, played by John C. Reilly.
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