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  • Hey, I'm not the one with all the colorful acronyms and explicatives.

    Gay Marriage Activists Call For Sundance Boycott | /Film 2008

  • Men that call other men out when they are acting like *explicatives*.

    I Am A Tired American - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Dick Cheney was greeted with warm explicatives when he visited the disaster region today.

    Think Progress » Cheney Runs Into Trouble With the Locals 2005

  • Jesus, it's getting manic, and your head starts pounding, and your heart is overbeating, and your lungs are hyperventilating, and the anger of frustration is beginning to boil up in you to an overflowing gush of F-ing explicatives against God, Mom, the Flag, and certainly the rest of humanity.

    Being Invisible in Death The Daily Growler 2006

  • Kevin Gregg I am going to avoid all the explicatives that I really want to spew.

    NCAA News -- www.ncaa.com 2009

  • I have a few thoughts, but I need to collect myself and think them through without the explicatives.

    Turf Show Times 2008

  • Sweet”) But eye naught like sum other pics for reeesons of my own, i doan like using “JC” explicatives, but farts is ok).

    miguel had a sneaky suspicion - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Eleven explicatives, admission of regularly placing wagers outside of licensed gaming facilities compounded by a lack of organization including incorrect attributions along with the fabrication of e-mails to be "found later" and in a majority of cases, a clear lack of understanding of the mechanisms and machinations under discussion, but feed mostly by the desire to out "grandstand" the prior inquisitor in hopes of saving the Congressional seat in which they sit, Carl Levin and his crew made mockery of the thought of these people as our leaders in questioning current and former employees of Goldman Sachs yesterday and this was only made worse by the fact that we elected them.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Jim Delaney 2010

  • Eleven explicatives, admission of regularly placing wagers outside of licensed gaming facilities compounded by a lack of organization including incorrect attributions along with the fabrication of e-mails to be "found later" and in a majority of cases, a clear lack of understanding of the mechanisms and machinations under discussion, but feed mostly by the desire to out "grandstand" the prior inquisitor in hopes of saving the Congressional seat in which they sit, Carl Levin and his crew made mockery of the thought of these people as our leaders in questioning current and former employees of Goldman Sachs yesterday and this was only made worse by the fact that we elected them.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Jim Delaney 2010

  • "tired", "are we there yet", and several explicatives for amazement, use your imagination for what those are.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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