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- noun Plural form of
vat . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vat .
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Examples
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Gone is the "pozolero" who dissolved bodies in vats of lye, gunbattles in front of hospitals and day care centers and mutilated bodies dumped near school yards.
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The carnage was the product of a showdown between two crime bosses – Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye.
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The carnage was the product of a showdown between two crime bosses – Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye.
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The carnage was the product of a showdown between two crime bosses – Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye.
Felipe Calderon Declares Tijuana 'A Success' Amid Mexican Drug War AP 2010
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That's what gets you to this whole thing about brains in vats: if your absolute standard for understanding reality goes away, you think all understanding of reality goes away.
A California Ruling 2009
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Gone is the "pozolero" who dissolved bodies in vats of lye, gunbattles in front of hospitals and day care centers and mutilated bodies dumped near school yards.
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[Insert usual disclaimer about the logical possibility of Cartesian demons, brains in vats, etc., here.]
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Yes, under Saddam, babies were taken out of incubators and thrown in vats of hot coffee, and would the Iraqi people want to drink the coffee then?
Think Progress » With “Last Throes” Debunked, Rice Unveils “The Latte Defense” 2005
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Tissue engineers are growing fake meat in vats from cell-cultures.
Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives 2003
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Gorby’s team coaxed Shewanella oneidensis – another bacterium that dumps electrons onto metal – into producing nanowires by growing it in vats that carefully control the amount of oxygen available.
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