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In spite of the patent absurdity of this hoax, it presents conclusive evidence that the concocters of this devious conspiracy have reached a worrying level of technical sophistication.

2010 May « Anglican Samizdat 2010

In spite of the patent absurdity of this hoax, it presents conclusive evidence that the concocters of this devious conspiracy have reached a worrying level of technical sophistication.

The Anglican Church of Canada is not obsessed with sex. At all. « Anglican Samizdat 2010

The author scoffs at Jewish scholars as “curious wranglers, ingenious cabalists, fine splitters of hair, shrewd perverters of texts, sharp detectors of discrepancies, clever concocters of analogies.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Banker bashing, a fond pursuit of governments and their voters since the financial crisis broke, has mainly been directed at the gamblers on the trading floor and the concocters of esoteric structured products, rather than the deal makers in mergers and acquisitions.

World Turns Up the Heat on Hostile Takeovers 2011

The author scoffs at Jewish scholars as “curious wranglers, ingenious cabalists, fine splitters of hair, shrewd perverters of texts, sharp detectors of discrepancies, clever concocters of analogies.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

By sheer, utter, and complete contrast, the "sellers" in all of this -- the mortgage companies, the banks, the mortgage-related asset concocters, the investment banks that bought and sold those instruments, the lobbyists who successfully removed oversight, the Republican Congress that overturned Glass-Steagall -- all of them awakened on various mornings and contemplated what schemes they could employ to enhance their revenues.

Paul Abrams: No, Erin Burnett, We Are Not "All Responsible" for this Mess 2008

The damsels, the concocters of the joke, kept their eyes down, not daring to look at their master and mistress; and as for them, laughter and anger struggled within them, and they knew not what to do, whether to punish the audacity of the girls, or to reward them for the amusement they had received from seeing Don

Don Quixote 2002

And Cide Hamete says, moreover, that for his part he considers the concocters of the joke as crazy as the victims of it, and that the duke and duchess were not two fingers 'breadth removed from being something like fools themselves when they took such pains to make game of a pair of fools.

Don Quixote 2002

For the meantime, it appears, that Auschwitz will be spared at least one onslaught by revisionists, myth-makers, and symbol-concocters.

War Crimes Weiss, Avraham 1989

This man made himself a professional man, just as did the early practitioners of medicine -- concocters of herbs in the beginning.

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