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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tit .
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Examples
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That's one version of a tit-for-tat that can delay a case, as draft opinions are circulated, and justices on opposing sides simply cannot stop responding to the other's arguments.
At term's end, Supreme Court opinions anything but brief 2011
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That's one version of a tit-for-tat that can delay a case, as draft opinions are circulated, and justices on opposing sides simply cannot stop responding to the other's arguments.
At term's end, Supreme Court opinions anything but brief 2011
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Yet, despite the involvement and money of the LGBT lobbyists, including the omnipresent Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Freedom to Marry Coalition, the marriage tit-for-tat continues in Albany.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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So deep does the dispute between Port Vale's board and its fans now run that there were accusations on Wednesday that the club had put a stop to building work on the statue commemorating its most dutiful servant, Roy Sproson, as a "tit-for-tat" measure.
Football League clubs debate wage restraint to curb losses 2011
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Yet, despite the involvement and money of the LGBT lobbyists, including the omnipresent Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Freedom to Marry Coalition, the marriage tit-for-tat continues in Albany.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Although every equilibrium is locally stable, they can differ greatly in their group-level properties e.g., all defect vs. tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoner's dilemma model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Although every equilibrium is locally stable, they can differ greatly in their group-level properties e.g., all defect vs. tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoner's dilemma model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Although every equilibrium is locally stable, they can differ greatly in their group-level properties e.g., all defect vs. tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoner's dilemma model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Although every equilibrium is locally stable, they can differ greatly in their group-level properties e.g., all defect vs. tit-for-tat in an iterated prisoner's dilemma model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Girardi says he wants to avoid tit-for-tat beanball wars.
Yankees Won't Engage in a Beanball War Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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