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- noun informal A person with
Down's syndrome .
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Examples
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Anne Downie is mighty as the granny who, enthroned in the corner like a dethroned Buddha, and a threat of what may be to come for all these women, grumbles that her treat of a chocolate biscuit is chocolatey only on one side.
Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married Susannah Clapp 2010
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Len Downie is wrong to condemn the Huffington Post - only myth sets the same goals for print and websites
Online news sites aren't damnable, just different – and what's wrong with that? Peter Preston 2010
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Recchi, who like Prospal and Downie is another former Flyers forward, pulled the Lightning even with a power-play goal at 11: 50 of the period.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Downie is serving a 20-game ban for an intentional hit against Ottawa.
USATODAY.com - Hockey - N.Y. Islanders vs. Philadelphia 2006
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Over the newspaper and reporting beats Len Downie is king.
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Over the newspaper and reporting beats Len Downie is king.
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Again, either Downie is covering for Woodward's lie, or he's not a very bright man.
11/18/2005 2005
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Downie is a retired Washington Post journalist, and his protagonist is also a political reporter who’s on the track of some nasty business related to the White House and its newest occupants.
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I’m still scratching my head over the garbled “logic” in Downie’s piece.
Of Bicyclettes, terroir, typicité: Over on HuffPo… | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Jay argues persuasively that in l’affaire Froomkin, the ability of online monarch Jim Brady to make appropriate decisions for the dot-com apart from newsroom king Len Downie is productive:
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