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"Just try giving up irony," he says in "At Last," "that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning."
The Sins of His Father Sam Sacks 2012
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The reason progressives hate Summers is that deep-down, Summers economic theory is not very progressive.
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But while the surface seemed calm, deep-down currents spun into whirlpools and eddies, causing boats in marinas to drift and twirl, destroying docks and each other.
Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011
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So while part of Barb's nausea about these charges is based in her frustration that she's being punished for trying to live a holy life, another part is rooted in her deep-down fear that the accusations are a little bit true.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 8 Mark Blankenship 2011
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The deep-down features, though, may keep users around as their needs grow.
Five Best Free System Restore Tools | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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But while the surface seemed calm, deep-down currents spun into whirlpools and eddies, causing boats in marinas to drift and twirl, destroying docks and each other.
Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011
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Most people don't break the bolt down completely, there could be some deep-down crud under the ejector that is keeping it from moving properly.
Anybody ever have any problems with H&R rifles not ejecting spent cartridges. 2010
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Most people don't break the bolt down completely, there could be some deep-down crud under the ejector that is keeping it from moving properly.
Anybody ever have any problems with H&R rifles not ejecting spent cartridges. 2010
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It's more the deep-down letting go — being just fine when your child runs to your husband instead of you when she falls down on the playground, she says.
More parents share the workload when mom learns to let go 2009
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It was a deep-down guttural laugh, the type reserved for a jolly, heavyset person, which was exactly what my partner had become.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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