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- adjective Not
addressable .
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So, while the single greatest civil purpose of law has been to keep men from violating one another (the only greater being to repel foreign invasion), the violation of women by men has been considered either justified or inevitable, and in any case as unaddressable by law.
Feminist Philosophy of Law Smith, Patricia 2009
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Anything the Dems bring against her is going to be deflected by the guys beating up on the gal meme -- every bit as unaddressable in this election season as POW, POW, POW.
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PSA to reviewers: It is not helpful to have an entire review that consists entirely of "well it could be this or this or this or this", all of which are completely unaddressable and highly unlikely if not physically impossible.
Archive 2008-05-01 WomanScientist 2008
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In “The Bell Curve” (in part) by Charles Murray, he argued that if there was a class that had lower that usual scores (in anything) that it would be a problem that would be unaddressable due to political pressure not to offend that class.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Lawrence Summers Was Fired For Being Correct? 2008
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As the military is frustrated and worn down by a little war against a small enemy made terrible by the potential of weapons of mass destruction, the shift in the Pacific goes unaddressed as if it is unaddressable.
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PSA to reviewers: It is not helpful to have an entire review that consists entirely of "well it could be this or this or this or this", all of which are completely unaddressable and highly unlikely if not physically impossible.
A bit better WomanScientist 2008
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Dr. Memory is a memory monitoring tool capable of identifying memory-related programming errors such as accesses of uninitialized memory, accesses to unaddressable memory (including outside of allocated heap units and heap underflow and overflow), accesses to freed memory, double frees, memory leaks, and (on Windows) access to un-reserved thread local storage slots.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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- A question that has not been addressed, and may be unaddressable.
jlake.com Jay 2010
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Some did offer more RAM, but it was unaddressable, thus pointless.
CNET News.com 2009
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"Your rudeness is unaddressable," T’Pei said icily, her black eyes blazing.
Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990
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