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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
unknow .
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One of the major unknows is whether such donors exist.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism 2006
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The beautification experts are the source of some of this, it is ironic that they are often pointing fingers at the unknows in somebody else's project.
“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010
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Is it too much to ask that reporters focus on the known facts and not the “unknown unknows”? —
Watching for Fallout From the Blagojevich Report - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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So there are a lot of unknows for any candidate running.
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Like the fetish, like the toy, things are not properly anywhere, because their place is found on this side of objects and beyond the human in a zone that is no longer objective or subjective, neither personal nor impersonal, neither material nor immaterial, but where we find ourselves suddenly facing like Karl Steel before an animal, and the animal before you these apparently so simple unknows: the human, the thing.
Heart and Head at Kalamazoo, or, The Displacement of the Entirely Out of Place Nicola Masciandaro 2008
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Like the fetish, like the toy, things are not properly anywhere, because their place is found on this side of objects and beyond the human in a zone that is no longer objective or subjective, neither personal nor impersonal, neither material nor immaterial, but where we find ourselves suddenly facing like Karl Steel before an animal, and the animal before you these apparently so simple unknows: the human, the thing.
Archive 2008-05-01 Nicola Masciandaro 2008
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I agree about David Heath - nominated for MP of the Year by the House Awards along with Grieve, and someone who seems to chose to do alot more work that other Backbenchers/total unknows.
And the Winner Is... 2005
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Of course the unknowns about the HadCRUT process for me are the validity of the statistics used for the known unknowns and any assumptions dealing with unknown unknows.
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With Democratic officials concerned about a nasty primary battle between two unknows who have to make a name first, they may just turn to Antonio.
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With Democratic officials concerned about a nasty primary battle between two unknows who have to make a name first, they may just turn to Antonio.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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