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- adjective Attributive form of
teddy bear , noun.
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Examples
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But, unlike weeks past when Kyle Massey slid by on his teddy-bear charm, this week he brings an intensity to his performance.
'Dancing with the Stars' rock week: We watch so you don't have to Lisa de Moraes 2010
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This week, Christie's in New York plans to set up a 20-ton bronze teddy-bear sculpture in a Park Avenue plaza—before auctioning it off next month for what the auction house expects will be more than $10 million.
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De Mille's silent film of "Carmen" - or they played opera singers, whether affable (the teddy-bear Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior) or regal (Wilhelmenia Fernandez in Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film "Diva").
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The first featured a dancing teddy-bear and falling four-leaf clovers.
Eunice Roque: Greeting Cards for the Laid-Off Eunice Roque 2011
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He has a bearded, teddy-bear face, and swaddles people with talkiness.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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Or, did the teddy-bear seller mentioned above instead “inspire” a whole group of folks, ala Twilight-mania, to try to do the same thing, as pale imitators of the original?
Regretsy – Regrebay 2010
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A cup of coffee with a coworker who wants to get to know her - a teddy-bear widower played by Jimmy Smits - is a psycho-comic hoot that builds to a bad end.
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Jenny looked around at the group: Dee sprawled lazily on the grass, dark limbs gleaming; Audrey perched on a folder to save her white tuxedo pantsuit; Michael with his teddy-bear body and sarcastic spaniel eyes; and Zach sitting like some kind of Tibetan monk with a ponytail.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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John Haugh during the teddy-bear maker's second-quarter earnings a day earlier.
Squabble Breaks Out Among Toymakers Francesca Freeman 2010
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Whereas the 1969 Rooster Cogburn was mainly a vehicle for John Wayne to play the blustering, tough-guy with a teddy-bear heart, Bridges lays back in his role.
Ruth Starkman: True Grit: Little Blackie Has it Ruth Starkman 2010
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