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  • Unless and until you get to that Teflon nirvana of not caring, though, your best bet is to have a shrug-off line handy.

    Carolyn Hax: Cut ties to friend you resent, or to the resentment itself 2010

  • Unless and until you get to that Teflon nirvana of not caring, though, your best bet is to have a shrug-off line handy.

    Carolyn Hax: Cut ties to friend you resent, or to the resentment itself 2010

  • Today it arrives immediately, everywhere; even in places where emotional skin has not thickened sufficiently to be able to shrug-off the ostensibly offensive or even merely objectionable.

    After Danish Cartoons, Dutch Film Sparks More Worries - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Even before the Declaration of Independence, the phrase of “No Taxation Without Representation” echoed among the American colonists as they were struggling to shrug-off the rule imposed by England:

    Taxation Without Representation In Today's Society 2007

  • Taxation Without Representation In Today's Society yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Taxation Without Representation In Today\'s Society'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Even before the Declaration of Independence, the phrase of "No Taxation Without Representation" echoed among the American colonists as they were struggling to shrug-off the rule imposed by England: Today, that same phrase is even more so an issue that many Americans don\'t consider.'

    Taxation Without Representation In Today's Society 2007

  • We see it every day, in the "collateral damage" shrug-off to accounts of civilian deaths in Iraq as compared to the sadness and horror that shows only when civilians belonging to the West are killed.

    hypocrisy all around 2005

  • On the other hand, the black market seems to shrug-off price increases and continues to show unabated growth.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • In an attempt to shrug-off the story, Wikipedia labels the page '' Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, '' with ClimateGate as only a redirect.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010

  • In an attempt to shrug-off the story, Wikipedia labels the page '' Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, '' with ClimateGate as only a redirect.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010

  • In an attempt to shrug-off the story, Wikipedia labels the page '' Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, '' with ClimateGate as only a redirect.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010

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