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  • noun Plural form of brontosaur.

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Examples

  • Realizing that "brontosaurs" never existed (they were a mistaken conglomeration of the parts from two other different types of dinos), all the folks I've known of who claim that dinosaurs perished in the flood also claim that sufficient representative dinos were taken on board the ark, but that they just couldn't thrive in the post-Flood world, and eventually became extinct (or practically so).

    Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy? 2009

  • In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Gunter and his unseen partners must have spent a hundred thousand pounds on the party, which climaxed with Simon standing on the bar to make a speech about showing the old brontosaurs of the major labels the doorway to extinction.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Gunter and his unseen partners must have spent a hundred thousand pounds on the party, which climaxed with Simon standing on the bar to make a speech about showing the old brontosaurs of the major labels the doorway to extinction.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Being from the "trust no one Agent Mulder" side of the finance clan, I figured I'd better do a little homework before accepting the notion that the solution to America's ills is to send the order to HRT to grab their Barretts and cull the weak from our herd of sixteen or so "Over $100B Asset" size banking brontosaurs.

    Dennis Santiago: Solving "Too Big to Fail": The Pursuit of Clarity 2010

  • Being from the "trust no one Agent Mulder" side of the finance clan, I figured I'd better do a little homework before accepting the notion that the solution to America's ills is to send the order to HRT to grab their Barretts and cull the weak from our herd of sixteen or so "Over $100B Asset" size banking brontosaurs.

    Solving "Too Big to Fail": The Pursuit of Clarity 2010

  • Gunter and his unseen partners must have spent a hundred thousand pounds on the party, which climaxed with Simon standing on the bar to make a speech about showing the old brontosaurs of the major labels the doorway to extinction.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Trackways found this year in South Korea show the marks of scores of tiny, milling brontosaurs, the size of calves.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

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