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- noun Plural form of
cafe .
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Examples
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Blowing up buses, blowing up shoppers, blowing up people in cafes is all to be expected in our world, and doubtless a sign of a moral civil society today.
Wonk Room » Keep Your Friends Close, And Dennis Ross Closer 2009
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One of the cafes is a co-operative club, next to the co-op organic food store.
sense of place 2008
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The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants ... or (again) parties.
Boing Boing 2009
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A few years ago I was visiting Copenhagen, and thanks to that odd European custom of seating strangers at the same table in cafes, we got talking with a couple from the city.
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I also tend to write in cafes where it is difficult to run away from a writing job and where you get at least an illusion of being social.
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But the lesson the advice blogger gives us is not "don't talk loudly on your mobile phone in cafes" but "it's cool to publish the names and phone numbers of total strangers and urge others to mock them".
Etiquette leedy 2009
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I invited a friend to try it with me, and once a month we'd meet in cafes for lunch, then choose a theme, write for half an hour.
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A few years ago I was visiting Copenhagen, and thanks to that odd European custom of seating strangers at the same table in cafes, we got talking with a couple from the city.
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While reading "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, Suzanne was taken by Natalie's idea of writing in cafes -- she said the noise and bustle occupies the part of your brain that would normally be telling you your writing stinks and you'll never amount to anything.
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I thought guys only spoke to girls in cafes when they were interested.
His Days Lauren Becker 2010
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