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Examples
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Once I backwashed into my UCTBFHD and ended up admitted as an inpatient with pyelonephritis and I haven't used it since.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Thank the prophet Teddybear that the water is fairly hot, because the inside of the machine was encrusted with backwashed coffee grounds and various signs of oxidisation.
“We will not be held responsible.” « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007
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Always in a translucent color, backwashed behind more legible text, but still… does that make me annoying?
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Landing lights appear in the sky and the planes keep dropping toward the runway across the water, another flight every minute and a half, the backwashed roars overlapping so everything is seamless noise and the air has a stink of smoky fuel.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Landing lights appear in the sky and the planes keep dropping toward the runway across the water, another flight every minute and a half, the backwashed roars overlapping so everything is seamless noise and the air has a stink of smoky fuel.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Landing lights appear in the sky and the planes keep dropping toward the runway across the water, another flight every minute and a half, the backwashed roars overlapping so everything is seamless noise and the air has a stink of smoky fuel.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Thought to myself, "Chris better have not grabbed my soda and backwashed his pizza" I spit what I thought was pizza and it was a FLY.
Last Five Things I Had To Say yes-that-mom 2005
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Flocculation requires energy inputs for hydraulic or mechanical mixing, sludge removal in sedimentation tanks is often carried out with mechanical scrapers, and rapid sand filters are backwashed for filter cleaning.
1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996
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These in turn cannot be backwashed properly and produce filtered water of high turbidity.
1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996
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She only knew that in midreach, he gasped, the terrible energies he had been reaching for suddenly backwashed over him, and his body exploded into a pillar of flame.
Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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