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  • Only those who actually have participated in signif - icant events were eligible.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Global warming, extreme temperature changes on Earth, but also ice cap melting on Mars in last years, signif. temperature changes on other planets, their moons-Neptune's Triton, doubled tickness of its atmosphere, rising temperature,…

    2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today 2009

  • Together, they leaped off the last ledge and landed si'multaneously on a lava bridge that spanned a signif-icant cleft in the rocks.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Prof. MARSZALEK: I don't think it had much impact because Jackson was -- was elected rather -- rather signif -- with a significant vote.

    The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House 1998

  • Even more signif-icant, drifting several feet away from the slab was a boat that was the twin of their own.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • Only those who actually have participated in signif - icant events were eligible.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • The boy interpreted their signif-icance with a heavy sense of sorrow.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • The emission pattern had, as the jargon went, signif - | icant nonrandom elements; Patterns would rise out of the galactic background radio noise and then, before the sequence of amplitude modulations could form a coherent pattern, the dim electromagnetic tremor faded.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • Such, too, appears to be the teaching of Pope John XXII in a well-known passage dealing with this subject (Extravag., tit. xiv, De verborum signif., c. v, Quia quorundam).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • He won't get any signif playing time with Torts, so what is the point of keeping him?

    NY Daily News 2011

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