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- noun A
book used to learn a foreign language containing common phrases in 2 or more languages
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Examples
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A dictionary or phrasebook is only minimally useful when listening to conversation because it goes by so fast.
the expat bookshelf 2005
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In other words, the scenario imagined in the phrasebook is someone experienced seducing a reluctant virgin.
Ideology of Phrasebooks Richard Nokes 2005
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In other words, the scenario imagined in the phrasebook is someone experienced seducing a reluctant virgin.
Archive 2005-09-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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In other words, the scenario imagined in the phrasebook is someone experienced seducing a reluctant virgin.
September 2005 Dr. Richard Scott Nokes 2005
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I suppose Western travellers are still a fairly small proportion of the thousands who go along the trans-Siberian every day, Sign language and my phrasebook were my helping hands.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The first few days were a little rough, then I got a little phrasebook and I was pretty much as quick as I was on my old win machine.
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Johnson seems almost illiterate scientifically (he described research as "creating life through destroying it," which makes absolutely no sense) but has memorized the Republican phrasebook on stem cell research, and says he only supports adult stem cells and cord blood -- not embryonic.
Don C. Reed: The Politics of Cruelty: Wisconsin Republican Would Block Research for Cure Don C. Reed 2010
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Johnson seems almost illiterate scientifically (he described research as "creating life through destroying it," which makes absolutely no sense) but has memorized the Republican phrasebook on stem cell research, and says he only supports adult stem cells and cord blood -- not embryonic.
Don C. Reed: The Politics of Cruelty: Wisconsin Republican Would Block Research for Cure Don C. Reed 2010
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But the sentences in the Italian phrasebook seemed to taunt her: Ho bisogno di un portabagagli per le miei valigie.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Johnson seems almost illiterate scientifically (he described research as "creating life through destroying it," which makes absolutely no sense) but has memorized the Republican phrasebook on stem cell research, and says he only supports adult stem cells and cord blood -- not embryonic.
Don C. Reed: The Politics of Cruelty: Wisconsin Republican Would Block Research for Cure Don C. Reed 2010
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