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from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, in the manner of an infinitive.
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In something of a surprise, the supporting characters are generally presented quite well, and become infinitively more interesting than our two orphans.
Archive 2008-05-01 Neth 2008
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In something of a surprise, the supporting characters are generally presented quite well, and become infinitively more interesting than our two orphans.
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The same, Kendrick argues, is true of "pornography": it is, like "literature," an infinitively variable construct over which social forces vie for control of the cultural space. close window
Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006
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If she is so wise, and so clever, and so infinitively more experienced, then how could she have authorized George Bush to go to war without asking for an exit strategy, or at least bothering to read the National Intelligence Estimate?
Obama: "Irresponsible and Frankly Naive," as Hillary Says 2007
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More influential even than these, 'Blackwood' [103] paid her the compliment of a whole article, criticising her faults frankly, but declaring that 'her poetical merits infinitively outweigh her defects.
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More influential even than these, 'Blackwood' [103] paid her the compliment of a whole article, criticising her faults frankly, but declaring that 'her poetical merits infinitively outweigh her defects.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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Here, instead of sands, low rocks, infinitively broken and jagged, filled all the tidal space -- a region of ceaseless rush and shattered waters.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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The question I always have is, you know, how detailed of a tattoo can you get if something is infinitively detailed?
News 2012
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The shift in media from unidirectional broadcast to a "conversational" model is one where the consumer plays an infinitively more important role as
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The shift in media from unidirectional broadcast to a "conversational" model is one where the consumer plays an infinitively more important role as
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