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- noun Attributive form of
control freak
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Examples
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This line of work also meshes well with both my control-freak and my reclusive proclivities.
An Interview With Author Lois McMaster Bujold « A Working Title 2010
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Downey is Peter, a control-freak architect whose wife is back in California, about to give birth to their first child.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Due Date Marshall Fine 2010
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For the agenda, varied and unpredictable as might have been, was underpinned by ideas -- and the slogan of Thomas Watson, the control-freak founder of IBM, was, of course, THINK.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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The main reason I'm annoyed by Twilight is because today's teen lit is apparently so lacking in either charming monsters or even basic good manners that a whiny, emo, bishie control-freak such as Edward Cullen looks like the paragon of chivalry.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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For the agenda, varied and unpredictable as might have been, was underpinned by ideas -- and the slogan of Thomas Watson, the control-freak founder of IBM, was, of course, THINK.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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For the agenda, varied and unpredictable as might have been, was underpinned by ideas -- and the slogan of Thomas Watson, the control-freak founder of IBM, was, of course, THINK.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I promise: those control-freak misers with 20 million bucks stashed away aren't having a good time or prospering.
Judith Orloff MD: The Power of Generosity and Anonymous Giving Judith Orloff MD 2011
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I promise: those control-freak misers with 20 million bucks stashed away aren't having a good time or prospering.
Judith Orloff MD: The Power of Generosity and Anonymous Giving Judith Orloff MD 2011
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For the agenda, varied and unpredictable as might have been, was underpinned by ideas -- and the slogan of Thomas Watson, the control-freak founder of IBM, was, of course, THINK.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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The main reason I'm annoyed by Twilight is because today's teen lit is apparently so lacking in either charming monsters or even basic good manners that a whiny, emo, bishie control-freak such as Edward Cullen looks like the paragon of chivalry.
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