Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
timed-release .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a preparation that gradually releases an active substance (especially a drug) over a period of time
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Examples
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To revisit the good food is good medicine metaphor, you might even call it time-release food.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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To revisit the good food is good medicine metaphor, you might even call it time-release food.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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So he engages in what he calls transactional creation, whereby people freely exchange ideas and images that cross-pollinate and result in works that are in effect time-release collaborations.
Michael Kurcfeld: "Occupy Wall Screen": A Renowned French Media Artist Takes On Wall Street (VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2012
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Then again, I saw more PS3-exclusives (in name or merely by time-release) that had me enthused.
No Winners, No Losers SVGL 2009
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So he engages in what he calls transactional creation, whereby people freely exchange ideas and images that cross-pollinate and result in works that are in effect time-release collaborations.
Michael Kurcfeld: "Occupy Wall Screen": A Renowned French Media Artist Takes On Wall Street (VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2012
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So he engages in what he calls transactional creation, whereby people freely exchange ideas and images that cross-pollinate and result in works that are in effect time-release collaborations.
Michael Kurcfeld: "Occupy Wall Screen": A Renowned French Media Artist Takes On Wall Street (VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2012
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When she called her husband, Aaron—who was in Miami, a city so geographically opposite Portland she thought he must have orchestrated the business trip—he mentioned canned poison, self-contained time-release smoke bombs, even a carefully involved effort at batting the nests with golf clubs.
Paper Lanterns Peter Kispert 2011
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Misdemeanors: Countless violations including but not limited to: connecting a patient's ribs to a set of time-release springs, forcing a patient to saw off their own limbs, planting vital clues inside a patient's stomach and constructing a pit of used syringes into which he then forced a patient.
Sin doctors: from Dr Moreau to Jigsaw, six horrific cinematic surgeons 2011
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Oral doses of melatonin haven't worked much better at inducing sleep than a placebo in most studies, Scharf says, and a single, concentrated shot of the stuff doesn't exactly mimic the body's time-release system.
Can relaxation drinks put you to sleep? Rachel Saslow 2011
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So he engages in what he calls transactional creation, whereby people freely exchange ideas and images that cross-pollinate and result in works that are in effect time-release collaborations.
Michael Kurcfeld: "Occupy Wall Screen": A Renowned French Media Artist Takes On Wall Street (VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2012
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