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  • One, it is the esoteric BS of economic Ph.D. 's that created a belief in deregulation, supply and demand, trickle down economics or what is also come to be known as voo-doo economics.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • Of course, those of us who live in Pa. are sort of used to that kind of voo-doo economics from our elected officials.

    ErieBlogs 2009

  • Could English-speakers keep you for the singular second-person pronoun, and borrow vous, or a more phonetically driven spelling like voo or vou, for the plural?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Could English-speakers keep you for the singular second-person pronoun, and borrow vous, or a more phonetically driven spelling like voo or vou, for the plural?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • This still leaves would-be fonctionnaires having to do the interviews in their second language; and while "voolay voo coochay avec moi ce soir" might be enough for a good night in the Place Lux it won't help when the College of Europe alumni are discussing the finer points of comitology with the examiner.

    No English-Only Exams For Would-Be Eurocrats Frances Robinson 2011

  • He was also probably avoiding such voo-doo verbal phrases as “short sell” and “selling short.”

    Short Sale Your House! (Don’t short sell it.) « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • I can't imagine our government being ran by a person who has voo doo doctors come in and try to pray her into office.

    Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds 2009

  • Many common usage words will be effected whereas Brazilians must only become accustomed to a few missing accents, for example in idéia and vôo (which are now spelled ideia and voo), and also to new hyphenation rules.

    Web Translations » Blog Archive » Ordem e Progresso: Brazilian Portuguese spelling reform 2009

  • Sound technicians must have caught on because by the second song, her angelic voice was front and center, blushing us all with her regally soprano breaths of vocal voo doo, all the while still being able to traipse about in the rich and sultry lows of alto.

    Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island Alyssa Miele 2010

  • "Jim," asks Huckleberry Finn, "s'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy what would you think?"

    Sticking the world together with words 2010

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