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Examples
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The implication is that the long way we've come is worth genuflective attention, at best.
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What effect does it have on anyone's life if that era is occasionally discussed in less than perfectly genuflective phraseology?
Hillary and MLK 2008
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Monday, for example, there was breakfast at Chez Cornstein, followed by a private workout, lunch with Knicks officials, a light exercise session at a trendy health club, a trip to the downtown NBA offices and a handshake from league chieftain David Stern followed shortly by a genuflective pause beside a giant poster of Michael Jordan.
USATODAY.com - Youthful Serbs take first steps in NBA journey 2003
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CD 1: banging-yet-intelligent; techno-techno as opposed to minimal techno or trance-techno or hardcore techno or Detroit-genuflective techno or … Techno-techno the same way that, say, CJ Bolland was … and indeed there's little about Hell's sound here to betray this wasn't recorded in the early-to-mid-90s.
blissblog 2009
brainstem commented on the word genuflective
John McWhorter enjoys this word.
April 7, 2010
Jimmydiamond commented on the word genuflective
respectfully acknowledge previously remarkable events,in retrospect
April 9, 2012