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- noun a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
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Examples
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He will have observed that the worst of the neocons (including himself) are now writing books and spending more time with families and friends, cheer-leading for more war by writing op-eds from the outside rather than pursuing their strategies in policy meetings in the White House.
Gary Sick on Iran and the Hawk-Realist Power Balance « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Commenter eds from the original post at TPM says it better than I could: “She’s made being an intellectual liberal a matter of trite smarmy and snarky cliches and awful posturing.”
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Anyway, I’d hope that the bit of Helprin that writes novels and not op-eds is dry-heaving at such linguistic weaselry.
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In the college town where I now live, the Starbucks attracts good-looking co-eds, which is always a plus by me.
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He has a 2 page spread of op-eds, which is unusual for a suburban weekly.
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Our author in this second volume has given the small carpers who pick at the 'eds' of past participles, and stickle for old-fashioned _moon_-shine instead of moon-_shine_, fewer causes of complaint.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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SHAMPOO 1. Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Note that the Old English text of the poem reproduced in this edition is based on Beowulf, with the Finnesburg Fragment, 3rd ed., eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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SHAMPOO 1. Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Note that the Old English text of the poem reproduced in this edition is based on Beowulf, with the Finnesburg Fragment, 3rd ed., eds.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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