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Cobble pavements are admirably adapted to soaking-up and afterwards emitting unwholesome matters.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Wellingtonians took advantage of the lunchtime sunshine, soaking-up the atmosphere and lining the parade route.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters Richard Elliott 2009
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Samba Pra Burro in 1998 - that follow a similar program of hybridization and the soaking-up of influences.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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Samba Pra Burro in 1998 - that follow a similar program of hybridization and the soaking-up of influences.
PopMatters Richard Elliott 2009
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India's central bank to further soaking-up of excess liquidity bank remained unchanged, but it urged lenders to hold a larger share of their deposits in cash
WN.com - Articles related to Inflation, capital inflows new challenges, says Gokarn 2009
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Samba Pra Burro in 1998 - that follow a similar program of hybridization and the soaking-up of influences.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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