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Examples
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Immigrant right advocates, hungry for any kind of half-loaf, have given in to ever harsher enforcement measures.
Sandip Roy: Don't Ask Don't Dream Sandip Roy 2010
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When she was through, all that was left in the fridge was a crumpled half-loaf of bread, a tub of butter, a wilted cucumber, and some lox.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Immigrant right advocates, hungry for any kind of half-loaf, have given in to ever harsher enforcement measures.
Sandip Roy: Don't Ask Don't Dream Sandip Roy 2010
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When she was through, all that was left in the fridge was a crumpled half-loaf of bread, a tub of butter, a wilted cucumber, and some lox.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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As we know, in democracy, it's always the politics of the half-loaf.
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The half-loaf which is baked is better than the mere recipe for two whole loaves whose dough is never even mixed.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" 2009
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The half-loaf which is baked is better than the mere recipe for two whole loaves whose dough is never even mixed.
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But what did liberals or progressives ever get out of their half-baked, “half-loaf” strategy?
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He was playing with a little black bitch, disgustingly fat, wrapping her up in a leek-green scarf and teasing her with a half-loaf of bread which he had put on the couch; and when from sheer nausea, she refused it, he crammed it down her throat.
Satyricon 2007
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I can't even eat a half-loaf of bread before it molds.
evolver Diary Entry evolver 2004
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