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Examples
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But the sale "was not well-digested," according to Nomura.
Portugal Stays in EU Debt Spotlight Emese Bartha 2011
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I'll bet gerbil is very experienced at checking ingredients, especially in well-digested food that is pretty far down the "track".
Elizabeth Edwards: "I Just Have More Confidence" In Hillary On Health Care 2009
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You do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centuries.
The Purloined Letter 2006
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In well-digested excrete, the proportion of mineralized nitrogen is doubled.
Chapter 7 1996
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Nothing had been left rude or native in him; a well-digested conventionalism had incorporated itself thoroughly with his substance and transformed him into a work of art.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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It is at least a well-digested and well-developed measure, complete in itself, and laying down the grounds on which it proceeds, and the precise mode of its operation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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His face (what with the acridity of the atmosphere, ale at lunch, wine at dinner, and a well-digested abundance of succulent food) gets red and mottled, and develops at least one additional chin, with a promise of more; so that, finally, a stranger recognizes his animal part at the most superficial glance, but must take time and a little pains to discover the intellectual.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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"Readable and well-digested it forms a valuable addition to the popular series of books in which it appears."
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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You do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centuries.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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Women who read at all, generally read more than men; but, from the absence of any intellectual system, they neither acquire well-digested information, nor, what is of far more importance, are the powers of their mind strengthened by exercise.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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