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  • Then, if a beef-loving cat-litter salesman is traveling to Dallas, the system can recommend a top-rated steak house where other cat-litter reps have had luck taking pet-shop owners to close deals.

    The Rating Game 2009

  • Then, if a beef-loving cat-litter salesman is traveling to Dallas, the system can recommend a top-rated steak house where other cat-litter reps have had luck taking pet-shop owners to close deals.

    The Rating Game 2009

  • I'm from Seattle and I will sooner drink pet-shop espresso than cheer for Oklahoma City.

    Your NBA Playoff Questions Answered Jason Gay 2011

  • After an exhausting few weeks of pitching to investors, the pet-shop boys landed $8 million in venture capital and are now hiring like crazy from their renovated farmhouse on the outskirts of Munich, where boxes of newly delivered computers clog the entrance.

    A New Breed 2008

  • And what I mentioned above about other pet-shop puppies applies to Kojima's as well.

    Still on Holiday 2006

  • In a classic Monty Python sketch, a shifty pet-shop owner attempts to distract John Cleese from the fact that his parrot is dead by pointing out the deceased bird's "beautiful plumage."

    Detroit's Return on Capitol 2008

  • “The pet-shop lady told me some man had bought him for his girlfriend.”

    One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze 2007

  • “Are you okay, Mr. Asher?” asked the pet-shop guy.

    A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006

  • He also got the right to destroy the house, more or less, and bring pet-shop snakes into the basement, thanks to his patient mother.

    Raiders of the Lost Backyard Windolf, Jim 2004

  • He also got the right to destroy the house, more or less, and bring pet-shop snakes into the basement, thanks to his patient mother.

    Raiders of the Lost Backyard Windolf, Jim 2004

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