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  • noun Plural form of gatherer.

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  • Yesterday, James Bopp, on behalf of Protect Marriage Washington, and Attorney General Rob McKenna, on behalf of the State of Washington, Washington Families Standing Together and the Washington Coalition for Open Government, argued before the United States Supreme Court over whether the release of names and addresses of referendum signature gatherers is consistent with the First Amendment.

    Conventional Wisdom Says McKenna Won the Day for Public Disclosure. Maybe. Just Maybe Not When it Comes to R-71. « PubliCola 2010

  • Note Jared Diamond simply made an assertion; his subjective impression of what would happen to a white infant raised by hunter-gatherers is worthless from a scientific standpoint.

    Is Economic Growth Genetic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When you state that paid signature gatherers is the equivolent of paying off a politician. .how do you reach that conclusion.

    Sound Politics: Coup plotters suffer a setback 2007

  • As it stands paying signature gatherers is just viewed as another expense of doing business in this state.

    Sound Politics: Coup plotters suffer a setback 2007

  • As it stands paying signature gatherers is just viewed as another expense of doing business in this state.

    Sound Politics: Coup plotters suffer a setback 2007

  • McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language.

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

  • McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language.

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

  • The gatherers were a row of statues, their ponchos drooping from raised arms, their hoods facing the oncoming pair of spectre birds.

    Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

  • R. Simon said, β€œat first they were called gatherers on the Sabbatical year; when they were forced by Gentiles to cultivate the ground, they changed to call them traders on the Sabbatical year.”

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

  • But instead of having the news handed to us on a platter, we'll have to become hunter-gatherers, which is kind of a drag if you're busy.

    Discover Blogs 2010

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