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  • Software allows the player to control everything from a note's length to its "rubberiness," in Singer's words.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Software allows the player to control everything from a note's length to its "rubberiness," in Singer's words.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Because the transition to rubberiness happens a bit above room temperature, the bag is "kind of crispy and crunchy," says Mr. Rodgers.

    Snack Attack: Chip Eaters Make Noise About a Crunchy Bag 2010

  • A metallic rubberiness quickly joins in followed by a leather smell that smells a lot like the inside of the sort of boutique that used to be on Christopher Street or Santa Monica Boulevard before gentrification made them both become the be-Starbucksed, family-friendly, anodyne-gay boulevards they are today.

    Etat Libre d'Orange Tom of Finland Marina Geigert 2008

  • A metallic rubberiness quickly joins in followed by a leather smell that smells a lot like the inside of the sort of boutique that used to be on Christopher Street or Santa Monica Boulevard before gentrification made them both become the be-Starbucksed, family-friendly, anodyne-gay boulevards they are today.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • The cheese was overwhelming, and though it oozed in the most obscene way cheese can ooze, it had a rubberiness that I didn't expect.

    Lou Malnati's, Chicago - Domino's Got Nothing on This Delivery 2007

  • Since you obviously like your hard cooked eggs chopped up, why not cook them in the microwave. break eggs into a glass measuring cup, beat them slightly to break up the yolks and entrain some air in the mix, cover with plastic wrap that you leave a small vent in, and micro cook until done. if you cook them thoroughly the egg whites acquire that same rubberiness as hard cooked eggs.

    Great way to peel boiled eggs | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • The physical characteristics of copra which affect the oil quality and the extraction rate include the rubberiness of the meat, case hardening which results from inadequate drying in kilns and hot-air dryers, or charring of the meat from over-heating.

    Chapter 5 1983

  • Skin: no intricate pattern of delicate flexible overlap; a rubberiness relieved only by lines and coarse pores; and hair, everywhere hair in ridiculous bunches and tufts, like fungus on a corpse.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • Actually, despite that "quickness" the steering is the least pleasing aspect of both Coupés; it is electrically powered with the sense of artificiality, tactile detachment and rubberiness around the straight-ahead position all too common in such systems.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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