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- adverb In an
inelastic way.
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Examples
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Are rap fans who aren't willing to pay full price inelastically married to downloading?
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It's an inelastically conservative state that we can't win the state without an Arkansan on the ticket, as even Gore who had been a Senator from neighboring Tennessee proved.
Rasmussen: McCain Beating Hillary In Arkansas, Swamping Obama 2009
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Land is the inelastically supplied component to housing.
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They "saw" hard grains inside these objects when they studied how electrons (of still higher energy than Hofstadter could use earlier) scattered inelastically on them.
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The firelight glowed on the page, and he read, monotonously and inelastically:
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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A revenue rising, but very slowly and inelastically as compared with that of Great Britain, and now showing a ratio of 1 to 15; so that the
The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896
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Another similar photon could hit, it could collide inelastically with another element losing or gaining energy.
RealClimate 2009
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Another similar photon could hit, it could collide inelastically with another element losing or gaining energy.
RealClimate 2009
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Another similar photon could hit, it could collide inelastically with another element losing or gaining energy.
RealClimate 2009
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Another similar photon could hit, it could collide inelastically with another element losing or gaining energy.
RealClimate 2009
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