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The two industries are umbilically linked, trading horseflesh, stable staff and jockeys to mutual advantage.
Irish break the bank at Cheltenham as joy overrides economic fears | Paul Hayward 2011
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The Anonymous group, linked umbilically to influential online forum 4Chan, have forced several websites linked to copyright-protection bodies offline in recent weeks.
Gene Simmons Threatens Hacker Group, Responds To 'Popcorn Farts' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He is often a quirky and light-hearted presence, leavening the sometimes sombre mood of the interview room, where one question seems umbilically linked to the last one.
Relaxed Andy Murray finds a kindred spirit in Sir Alex Ferguson 2011
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The tent was set up in their parking lot, and was umbilically connected to the building for its power and plumbing.
Why Denver Matters 2008
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The tent was set up in their parking lot, and was umbilically connected to the building for its power and plumbing.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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I despise diet books, which are joyless, dishonest and, being umbilically connected to both vanity and greed, inelegant.
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Never has a creator been so umbilically linked to his creation.
Frank Sidebottom ... 'He'd have died to be in the charts' 2010
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Human clones have been found linked umbilically to the coral, and the native aliens are falling victim to a sexually transmitted disease.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 1) 2008
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It is a stretch because wellbeing is umbilically linked to being well enough off.
If Cameron's wellbeing is seats on trains, affording a ticket comes first Martin Kettle 2010
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The Anonymous group, linked umbilically to influential online forum 4Chan, have forced several websites linked to copyright-protection bodies offline in recent weeks.
Gene Simmons Threatens Hacker Group, Responds To 'Popcorn Farts' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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