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  • Modern malleefowl show this to an extreme with no parental care at all actually even crocodiles and alligators care more about their hatchlings..., with hatchlings which are completely idependet from the very beginning, and it was probably not unsimilar in theropods, even if there are indications for some familiar behavior in some species.

    Joy in the Farmyard James Gurney 2010

  • Hell, George Harrison lost the 'My Sweet Lord' lawsuit when the court found it too similar to a completely unsimilar 'He's So Fine' by the Chiffons.

    Shepard Fairey sues AP before it sues him. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Hell, George Harrison lost the 'My Sweet Lord' lawsuit when the court found it too similar to a completely unsimilar 'He's So Fine' by the Chiffons.

    Shepard Fairey sues AP before it sues him. Ann Althouse 2009

  • A distant sound, like that of the roaring of a lion, or not unsimilar to a large and deep gong of modern times, intimated the commencement of the ceremonial.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Something not entirely unsimilar happened at a library in my hometown of New Bedford child was molested by a pedophile while in the library, and it had everyone screaming that anyone with that kind of history should be banned from public places like the library.

    abada abada › three-week forecast 2008

  • We make a not unsimilar spread for Christmas using roasted red pepper, green onion, capers and cream cheese.

    Recipe for Roasted Tomato, Basil, and Goat Cheese Holiday Spread Kalyn Denny 2008

  • And the longer we stay there, I think the further destabilization will occur, ” adding, “We are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar or dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam. ”

    Think Progress » WSJ: The ‘Real Problem’ Behind Middle East Violence Is The ‘U.S. Is So Bogged Down In Iraq’ 2006

  • Dressed my son up this morning in a little iPod onesie a friend got us that is not unsimilar to one Lucy wore in a photo on this very blog some time ago.

    don't tell me to calm down 2006

  • Thus, by an odd chance, I had the very last of the very best of Alma Mater; the same thing, I hear (which makes it the more strange), had previously happened to my father; and if they are good and do not die, something not at all unsimilar will be found in time to have befallen my successors of today.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • We're past that stage now, because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem, not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005 2005

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