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At the opening of the tape, the failed car bomb was described as a “jaw-breaking blow to SatanUSA,”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Car Bomb Found in Times Square? 2010
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Just shy of the Rakhiot Bridge, where Jimmy Parker's name is inscribed with those of the climbers lost on Nanga Parbat, the canyon squeezes together and presents a series of three rapids, all of jaw-breaking difficulty.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011
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“HUNTER/HUNTED” comes to its jaw-breaking conclusion as the Punisher faces off against the all-new Kraven the Hunter.
Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Just shy of the Rakhiot Bridge, where Jimmy Parker's name is inscribed with those of the climbers lost on Nanga Parbat, the canyon squeezes together and presents a series of three rapids, all of jaw-breaking difficulty.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011
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The Internet video, purportedly from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan group, offered "congratulations to the Muslim ummah (community) on the jaw-breaking blow to Satan's USA," and said the attack no mention was made of the plot's failure was a response to recent killings of top Pakistani Taliban figures, including Baitullah Mehsud.
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The Internet video, purportedly from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan group, offered "congratulations to the Muslim ummah (community) on the jaw-breaking blow to Satan's USA," and said the attack no mention was made of the plot's failure was a response to recent killings of top Pakistani Taliban figures, including Baitullah Mehsud.
Police Trace SUV in Bomb Plot Joel Stonington 2010
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At the opening of the tape, the failed car bomb was described as a “jaw-breaking blow to SatanUSA,”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Car Bomb Found in Times Square? 2010
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This "it-takes-time-to-understand" bias (call it what you will) was reinforced by past conversations with my father, a poet and professor of comparative literature with a deep sense of how multilayered (he would disapprove of this jaw-breaking word) our lives are.
John Brown: Twittering; or, Where are the Emily Dickinsons at the State Department? 2009
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Sparing you the annotated references and jaw-breaking vocabulary, here's the bottom line.
Joel Brokaw: Vitamins & Exercise: Media Throws Baby Out With Bathwater 2009
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To gnaw on the jaw-breaking ideas of the leading hipster thinkers?
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