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- adverb In a
deafening manner.
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Examples
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Yesterday in Providence he once again sounded his klaxon, an alarm that remained deafeningly silent in the runup to the economic collapse, on the issue of entitlements.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money RJ 2010
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Yesterday in Providence he once again sounded his klaxon, an alarm that remained deafeningly silent in the runup to the economic collapse, on the issue of entitlements.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money RJ 2010
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The irony here is stunning: The noise machine of the organized Right in this country -- with its Echo Chamber, its 24-hour "news" channel, its think tanks and publishing houses, its talk radio, its money, and its power -- thunders deafeningly throughout our political discourse.
Joseph A. Palermo: When Violence Comes From the Right, Media Hear No Evil Joseph A. Palermo 2011
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Yesterday in Providence he once again sounded his klaxon, an alarm that remained deafeningly silent in the runup to the economic collapse, on the issue of entitlements.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money RJ 2010
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Yesterday in Providence he once again sounded his klaxon, an alarm that remained deafeningly silent in the runup to the economic collapse, on the issue of entitlements.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money RJ 2010
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I also knew that this political melodrama – about CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson's persecution by White House operatives – would not conclude with the same teletyped litany of names, outcomes, convictions and sentences that brought All The President's Men to its deafeningly triumphant conclusion.
Fair Game revisits the George W Bush years but is it too soon? 2011
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Devoid of air the vacuum of space was deafeningly silent.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The 'I support the anti-terror laws' brigade are deafeningly silent these days.
Student protests: Police ask colleges for demonstration details 2011
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Yesterday in Providence he once again sounded his klaxon, an alarm that remained deafeningly silent in the runup to the economic collapse, on the issue of entitlements.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money RJ 2010
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