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Once an author's got the work to the nearly-ready point, and the editor concurs it's time, the manuscript gets sent to the copy-editor, who goes through it with the proverbial finetooth comb for the whoopsies both large and small that almost always have slipped through the cracks of writing and rewriting.
Copy-editing karenmiller 2007
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He had gone through Segelfoss Town from waterfront to Manor with a finetooth comb, and had succeeded in getting old and young alike to support this charitable undertaking.
The Road Leads On 2003
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How close was she to life who had come to soothe the suffering and close the eyes of the dying; who had imagined that her instruments of healing were a thermometer and a prayer-book; and who found herself fighting the good fight with a bandage machine and, even worse, a scrubbing brush and a finetooth comb?
Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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But some 39 species roam here -- sandbar sharks, blacknose sharks, finetooth sharks, bull sharks, tiger sharks.
Island Packet: Home 2010
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Rather, Ignatieff said Wednesday he'll present a Liberal "report card" later this month, which will go through unemployment and employment insurance statistics "with a finetooth comb."
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Rather, Ignatieff said Wednesday he'll present a Liberal "report card" later this month, which will go through unemployment and employment insurance statistics "with a finetooth comb."
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"Officers on the case are desperate for a result and will search the place with a finetooth comb."
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These rules prohibit harvest of sandbar, silky and Caribbean sharpnose sharks from state waters; establish a 54-inch fork-length minimum size limit for all sharks, except Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, bonnethead, finetooth and blacktip sharks and smooth dogfish; prohibit removal of shark heads and tails at sea; allow only hook-and-line gear for harvesting sharks; and make other technical shark rule changes.
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I was an adamant Obama supporter, however now that he is in office, he must understand everything must be triple checked with a finetooth comb.
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Rather, Ignatieff said Wednesday he'll present a Liberal "report card" later this month, which will go through unemployment and employment insurance statistics "with a finetooth comb."
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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