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  • verb Present participle of longlist.

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Examples

  • Yet the top-selling two books - not mass-market titlesbut books that had been considered worthy of longlisting - were not shortlisted.

    Reading Maxine 2009

  • Yet the top-selling two books - not mass-market titlesbut books that had been considered worthy of longlisting - were not shortlisted.

    Sunday Salon: Book Depository and Man Booker Maxine 2008

  • Yet the top-selling two books - not mass-market titlesbut books that had been considered worthy of longlisting - were not shortlisted.

    Sunday Salon: Book Depository and Man Booker Maxine 2008

  • Yet the top-selling two books - not mass-market titlesbut books that had been considered worthy of longlisting - were not shortlisted.

    September 2008 Maxine 2008

  • Last week I tweeted with frustration about the standards of editing I had encountered while longlisting the Guardian First Book award.

    Red pen blues 2010

  • A book worthy of the attention that Booker longlisting offers and a good read but will it fill one of the last few places on my shortlist?

    40 entries from September 2007 2007

  • A book worthy of the attention that Booker longlisting offers and a good read but will it fill one of the last few places on my shortlist?

    Bookerthon 2007 : Consolation by Michael Redhill 2007

  • A book worthy of the attention that Booker longlisting offers and a good read but will it fill one of the last few places on my shortlist?

    Bookerthon 2007 : Consolation by Michael Redhill 2007

  • There was disappointment, though, for Ian McEwan, initially viewed as one of the strongest contenders for the award following his longlisting for On Chesil Beach, a novel devoted to the horrors of bad sex, and in particular, messy premature ejaculation.

    Bad Sex in Fiction Award - Norman Mailer William Harryman 2007

  • The issue of fanfic winning has never arisen: longlisting a work is not an indication that the work was considered to win; it is simply an indication that one or more jurors found the work worthy of attention for a very broad definition of “worthy of attention”.

    Tiptree Longlist Controversy 2006

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