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- noun Plural form of
pod .
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Examples
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New urbanism emphasizes development in "pods," communities with a discernible center, often a square or a green.
USATODAY.com - Gulf Coast taking a look at 'new urbanism' 2006
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Karate students and dolphin pods featured in recent research from Microsoft, explained by Christopher Mims in his Technology Review blog.
How To Build A Data Startup Edd Dumbill 2010
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Thought the ‘christianists’ were ‘family oriented’ – as has been pointed out Orcas are highly intelligent and live in pods (males stay with their mothers for life).
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The video was shot at Pandora headquarters in Oakland, where, alongside the usual assortment of office pods is a nice collection of musical instruments for folks to play.
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Wow, they never seem to run out of Goobers, are they growing them in pods over there? bobster
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Helios wants to replace flawed humanity with his New Race, people born and fermented in pods, their personalities programmed by him, their imperfections removed in the lab.
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein to be Developed as Film Series | /Film 2010
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This modular, mobile Snuggles hotel allows you to shack up in pods for an artsy camping experience not dissimilar to staying in oversized hamster cage tunnels.
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I am not trained in pods either but the school 45 min. from that uses pods puts out some of the most successful kindergarteners in that area.
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Orcas are highly intelligent and intensely social creatures, traveling and hunting in family units known as pods that never break up.
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Guajes are pods from the tree of the same name, containing soft, flat seeds (the edible part) that taste faintly of garlic.
john commented on the word pods
"There are multiple channels for information . . . The Internet is there, pods are there, talk radio is there, e-mails are there. There are all kinds of opportunities."
- Donald Rumsfeld quoted in Wired's Danger Room
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word pods
I say, fight 'em over there, so we don't have to fight 'em over here! Mangy pods. Who's with me?
January 25, 2008
john commented on the word pods
I'm not sure if I'm with you. I was consumed by a seed pod in 1978, and have felt oddly ambivalent ever since.
January 25, 2008
skipvia commented on the word pods
I'm with Uselessness. If we don't fight them over there, then they might learn where we actually live. They probably don't have maps.
January 25, 2008
skipvia commented on the word pods
It happened to me in 1958, John. The original is much better.
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word pods
Wait... podpeeple made Wordie?!? Eeeek!
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pods
Geez, uselessness. What did you think made Wordie? Haven't you noticed the tiny embedded maps of the United States all over the site?
January 25, 2008