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Englishings of Tibullus and, mirabillime dictu, the riddles of St. Aldhelm are in the works.
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The patently anti-semitic ones that MaryG serves up, which Orin Kerr and others (including, mirabile dictu, non-Jews like eplubibus) have called out and you seem to endorse, or at least to allow as plausible, e.g., the citation scam.
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Added Krauthammer, “Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.”
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Mirabile dictu, our perfect system sometimes sends innocent persons to prison.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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Englishings of Tibullus and, mirabillime dictu, the riddles of St. Aldhelm are in the works.
Books 2010
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After steadfastly and guiltily ignoring it for about three years, I have finally made a small update to my website: added my 2008 LJ post ‘The Taste for Magic’, which has (mirabile dictu!) attracted new comments in the last day or so.
Update?! superversive 2010
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Added Krauthammer, “Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.”
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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But then 99.7% of you reading this do not understand "Mirabile dictu."
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After steadfastly and guiltily ignoring it for about three years, I have finally made a small update to my website: added my 2008 LJ post ‘The Taste for Magic’, which has (mirabile dictu!) attracted new comments in the last day or so.
superversive: Update?! superversive 2010
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I found it remarkable from the get-go that we continued irresponsible tax cuts while going to war, and, mirable dictu, the conservatives who had financed the entire war on credit without the slightest interest in its effect on the deficit rediscovered balanced budgets as soon as Democratic-preferred programs could be constrained.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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