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- adjective Not
placeable ; that cannot be placed.
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Eight states pay up to $200,000 per student, per year, to send otherwise "unplaceable" children with autism, psychological and behavioral disorders to the residential institution that uses aversive therapy to control many of its young inmates.
Archive 2008-01-01 Kay Olson 2008
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Eight states pay up to $200,000 per student, per year, to send otherwise "unplaceable" children with autism, psychological and behavioral disorders to the residential institution that uses aversive therapy to control many of its young inmates.
Phoning It In Kay Olson 2008
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I remember his presence and that peculiar, unplaceable accent whenever he spoke, which was seldom and always with a timidity that gave the impression that he was inhaling the words.
Hisham Matar | Embedded or The Silent Countenance of Suleiman al Dewani 2011
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What was he doing here, this middle-aged man from over the seas with his unplaceable accent, alone in this wilderness, so far from his colleagues, in this little country lane?
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Every level of this poetry is a plunge back into the womb, where dark fears and unplaceable anxieties inform each waking moment.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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The spices give it a beguiling but unplaceable bitterness that cuts through slightly sweet flavors of honey and bubblegum.
La Dolce Birra 2011
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Every level of this poetry is a plunge back into the womb, where dark fears and unplaceable anxieties inform each waking moment.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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It disturbs me when I catch a whiff of something that hits me between the eyes with familiarity, but is somehow unplaceable.
january reading Megan Kurashige 2010
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One of those weird unplaceable American hybrid books, like something Paul Metcalf might have written, if Metcalf had been a romantically wounded Southerner and not
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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The American voices around me talked on, here and there another accent, an unplaceable one pitched lower than the others.
The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010
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