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T h e verbal left h e m i s p h e r e those symbol-systems and implicit never seems to recover fully, and the effects m a y h a n d i c a p stu - philosophies which we call dents for life.

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A car with unique dents is arguably a new "species" of car, but the process of throwing rocks does not create new, innovative discrete architectures (like the change from carburation to fuel injection).

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The company said it continues to sidestep taking drastic action to deal with short-term dents in its profit margin, instead focusing on boosting shareholder value over the long term.

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And I think we're going to find out in Iowa less than we're going to find out down the road, that is, the dents in Dean's armor, I think, are less effective here than they may be down the road in more conservative states as he goes for an early knockout -- Soledad.

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The sley or reed is composed of a row of short and very thin parallel strips of cane or metal, somewhat like comb-teeth, called dents, fixed at both ends closely in two long, strong, parallel bars of wood set two or three or even four inches apart.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

BRAND: Oh.Mr. POTTS: And living off credit cards for two years kind of dents your wallet.

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The broken bones and 'dents' on the skin were inflicted after the boy was dead.

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Then the little room down-stairs, from which went the orders to throw up a bank of earth on the hill yonder, where you may now observe a granite obelisk, -- "the study," in my father's time, but in those days the council-chamber of armed men, -- sometimes filled with soldiers; -- come with me, and I will show you the "dents" left by the butts of their muskets all over the floor.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

I retain my doubts about those "dents" on the floor of the right-hand room, "the study" of successive occupants, said to have been made by the butts of the Continental militia's firelocks, but this was the cause to which the story told me in childhood laid them.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Then the little room downstairs from which went the orders to throw up a bank of earth on the hill yonder, where you may now observe a granite obelisk, -- "the study" in my father's time, but in those days the council-chamber of armed men, -- sometimes filled with soldiers; come with me, and I will show you the "dents" left by the butts of their muskets all over the floor.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851