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- verb Present participle of
springboard .
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Examples
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I disagree with him, but let me try a different type of argument, springboarding off:
Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Set to debut in 2012, DC Nation will include shows like Green Lantern: The Animated Series, a CGI show coming this fall springboarding off this summer's Ryan Reynolds film and Young Justice: Invasion, a 10-episode miniseries spinning out of the original Young Justice.
Cartoon Network and DC Comics Team-Up for Superhero Adventures 2011
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I had several other examples in mind when I wrote that, though I was springboarding off what you said.
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In 1960, springboarding off the immense popularity of the magazine, the first of dozens of Playboy Clubs opened.
Taking stock of Playboy legacy as Hugh Hefner tries to buy back rest of company Elizabeth Fraterrigo 2010
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Far from the perpetual slow growth of the consensus camp, the economy is now springboarding back to the moderate expansion already seen in advanced capital goods export-driven Germany and Japan.
Is Cisco's Collapse Semiconductor History Repeating? Rick Whittington 2010
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This guest, whose name I can't recall, may have been springboarding off of the same stats Tom Schaller cites in a Baltimore Sun op-ed titled "Single Women a Sleeping Giant for Democratic Party":
Fodder Knows Best: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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I can see the TV ads now, springboarding off this one quote.
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What I'm interested in is springboarding to the universal constancy of the speed of light, and I thought you might have been referring to a specific website or a book that would have allowed me to do that.
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Since I'm using Kohlberg and Freud pretty loosely here, springboarding off of them into my own theory, I'll call this system of affect-logic "impulse aesthetics" rather than risk abusing their terms.
The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006
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Since I'm using Kohlberg and Freud pretty loosely here, springboarding off of them into my own theory, I'll call this system of affect-logic "impulse aesthetics" rather than risk abusing their terms.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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