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- adverb In a
nontrivial manner
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Examples
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By the bye, bombing Norway into oblivion sounds nontrivially difficult to me. soullite Says:
Matthew Yglesias » How Realistic Are Obama’s College Graduation Targets 2009
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One of the reasons Pittsburgh is nontrivially broken is that when it was a significantly bigger & younger city it accrued a large amount of pension obligations.
Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010
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One of the reasons Pittsburgh is nontrivially broken is that when it was a significantly bigger & younger city it accrued a large amount of pension obligations.
Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010
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One of the reasons Pittsburgh is nontrivially broken is that when it was a significantly bigger & younger city it accrued a large amount of pension obligations.
Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010
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This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which
Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009
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More generally: I want to say that it is indeed a legitimate kind of argument to argue that a theory XY looks good because it creates a picture that is nontrivially consistent with a lot of data we know while being a simple enough theory.
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For the first time since Wednesday, I'm actually feeling nontrivially better.
LinuxChix aggregator 2009
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For the first time since Wednesday, I'm actually feeling nontrivially better.
LinuxChix aggregator 2009
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a friend of mine pointed me to this article and said that a political science class that he was in in the 60s did an exercise to demonstrate to the students exactly this sort of bias in themselves, which was nontrivially disconcerting especially for those like Marxists who flatter themselves that their world views are based on constant challenging of their own thesis…
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Whatever social good more intermarriage would produce — and I agree from the point of society as a whole it would be good — he’s 100% correct that the individuals, the children, will have a nontrivially rougher time because of their parents.
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