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- noun Plural form of
brandisher .
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Examples
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The small bunch of loud-mouth teabaggers, birthers, and gun-brandishers should be ignored.
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Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partyers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."
David Sirota: Glenn Beck's Message: It Is Happening Here David Sirota 2010
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Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partyers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."
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Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partyers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."
David Sirota: Glenn Beck's Message: It Is Happening Here 2010
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So, the question then becomes, “what substantive act were the brandishers here trying to complete?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on gun registration, and guns at POTUS speeches: 2009
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I hate these pistol brandishers, Berrendo was thinking.
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940
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I hate these pistol brandishers, Berrendo was thinking.
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940
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The two cleverest brandishers of this objection to make truth concrete, Professors Rickert and
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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While today's Tea Party Tories focus their selective outrage at President Obama after saying nothing for a long eight years against the policies of his predecessor, and while the Republican Party becomes more beholden to its "bigots, birthers and Bible-brandishers" wing, some political criticism from the left is refreshing and illuminating.
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While today's Tea Party Tories focus their selective outrage at President Obama after saying nothing for a long eight years against the policies of his predecessor, and while the Republican Party becomes more beholden to its "bigots, birthers and Bible-brandishers" wing, some political criticism from the left is refreshing and illuminating.
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