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  • My access to the Representative I elect is dubious and perfunctionary to say the least.

    Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • He's made a couple of perfunctionary trips, but basically the guy obviously watches TV alot.

    Andre Agassi opens up about tennis, drug use 2009

  • Not because the posters were excellent examples of perfunctionary art (if that's the right word to use; they are advertisements, art to sell you something), because I actually enjoy that sort of thing (I once aspired to be an illustrator myself and can really enjoy a good ad for that reason)

    Mucha and Emotional Color James Gurney 2008

  • "If adopted, (ACTA) would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information.

    The Struggle for Net Neutrality 2009

  • "If adopted, (ACTA) would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information.

    Printing: The Struggle for Net Neutrality 2009

  • One of my impressions from perfunctionary skimming of ID “theories” is that there isn’t one, more like a huge number.

    The truth hurts - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • "If adopted, (ACTA) would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information.

    AfterDowningStreet.org 2010

  • "If adopted, (ACTA) would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information.

    WarIsACrime.org 2010

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  • shows up as a 'related word' under formal, but has no definition here.

    March 4, 2018