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- noun Plural form of
idiocy .
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Email apps weren't designed to recognize such idiocies, which is why our inboxes become unruly messes, with important messages pushed offscreen and out of mind.
Clive Thompson on How Email Bots Can Deal With Your Overstuffed Inbox 2008
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Email apps weren't designed to recognize such idiocies, which is why our inboxes become unruly messes, with important messages pushed offscreen and out of mind.
Clive Thompson on How Email Bots Can Deal With Your Overstuffed Inbox 2008
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Experience has taught me that every decade or so the art market gets weak in the knees, and when it roars back a few years later the picture palaces specializing in Warhol and other assorted idiocies do better than ever before.
J.K. Rowling wishes they paid by the word. Roger Sutton 2009
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But Catherine describes only some of the 'incidental' idiocies here.
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In the past I really have advised backing away swiftly from places announcing such idiocies.
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Not to mention the rampant rent-seeking resulting from idiocies such as chlorhexidine mouthwash being prescription only for humans, while available otc in veterinary formulation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Senator Dodd’s Consumer Protection Bureau Regulate Dentists? 2010
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But I think you really want more than merely not subscribing to some often heard and strongly advocated idiocies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » President to Seek Line-Item Veto 2010
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Cue Dilan regurgitating his earlier idiocies that the Constitution specifically empowers judges to make moral determinations, in cases like these, based upon their personal intuitions.
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(Reagan did subscribe to some what you can call right wing idiocies but tried to work them over and make them makesense)
The Volokh Conspiracy » President to Seek Line-Item Veto 2010
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Other comments pointed out further idiocies in this line of argument.
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