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  • adjective Not captured.

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  • Fighting for their freedom, Arnau and his father flee to the big city of Barcelona, where if they remain uncaptured for over a year, they will gain their emancipation.

    “Cathedral of the Sea” by Ildefonso Falcones (Dutton, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Osama Bin Laden remains alive, he reports, because Bush preferred to go after oil-rich Iraq rather than tracking down Al Qaeda leaders, whose uncaptured presence was useful to him in justifying a “war on terror” pursued on a military rather than a criminal basis without constitutional restraints.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace 2009

  • Since then, NASA, vision flickering, public imagination uncaptured, has stooped to offering belittling practical justifications for spaceflight (GPS, cell phones) that ground and practicalize the sublime, killing its poetry.

    A Layman's Look Inside NASA - NASA Watch 2009

  • * We will not allow uncaptured gaseous emissions from any of our processes: no evaporation from open pits, no pressure releases from compressor stations or condensate tanks.

    Alison Rose Levy: What if the Gas Industry Really Wanted to Make Fracking Safer? Alison Rose Levy 2010

  • Since then, NASA, vision flickering, public imagination uncaptured, has stooped to offering belittling practical justifications for spaceflight (GPS, cell phones) that ground and practicalize the sublime, killing its poetry.

    NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

  • I have zero patience for jokes about MI ops that kept me alive or at least uncaptured in spite of my own ignorance.

    Flag Watch: Saturday at Rand Corp - Col Gayton and Adm Mullen | RedState 2010

  • Emil Jacques Guirlande was a murderer by trade, a killer uncaptured and unsuspected, a quiet-mannered man who avoided attention, but who had by the age of thirty-seven successfully assassinated sixteen targets comprising seven businessmen, eight wives and one child.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • Should the current rate of uncaptured oil discharged from the BP well continue, the spill will equal the yearly amount of oil entering the world's oceans sometime in August.

    Beyond the BP spill, a case of chronic oil pollution 2010

  • What had just happened before them in this small, private chapel in the Cathedral of Turin was unprecedented, uncaptured in human history.

    The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010

  • The Oracle replied, "A wall of wood alone shall be uncaptured."

    Michael Winship: Don't Believe Everything the Oracle Tells You 2009

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