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Like the rest of the New Republicans, Palin etal, "say anything at all about me, just spell my name right".
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These are the campaign workers, they get signatures for particular candidates, support the party with contributions, do campaign work like phone calls etal all from the offices where they work and we pay for it.
Albany's Insanity 2008
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Dick Armey, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin etal are all in the same boat … the SS Barry Goldwater.
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Seems that we should have learned this lesson already in Oregon, Rhode Island, Minnesota, etal, which is that you can't govern with a 30% solution, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes.
Right Pundits 2009
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Seems that we should have learned this lesson already in Oregon, Rhode Island, Minnesota, etal, which is that you can't govern with a 30% solution, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes.
Right Pundits 2009
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Not only did he not fill the hall, CodePinkos, etal were picketing him.
Obama on Brown… and Lane on Obama. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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You might want to thank Barney Frank etal for the Community Redevelopment Act. My dead white cat could have done as well.
Gov. Brewer removes AG Goddard from immigration law defense. | RedState 2010
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Give the guy a chance and remember CNN etal are just trying to fill air time.
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Perhaps Ghandi style non violence with bus seat taking etal gets met with massive state (as in state not federal) repression.
Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business. 2010
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Can't CNN, etal, find more important news to air??
lizwilduck commented on the word etal
I understood it to mean ...
"and everthing/everyone else as well" or "overall" ... a bit like 'etc'. So in the Real-Time Example from agnessmile it is shown in the sense that I am used to. I only looked it up on the wonderful Wordnik to check whether it had one 'l' or two. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary lists it as 'et al' (used esp after a name) and other people or things (Latin et alii/alia): 'the book includes studies by Westman et al.'
September 28, 2009