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Examples
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No offense, United Nations, but you're often stuck a hamster-wheel spinning out old ideas.
Sarah Holewinski: Shhh... Listen... It's a quiet revolution for war victims 2010
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Christensen himself comes close to acknowledging this elsewhere in his talk, when he described his realization that as a executive, he had the power to make his employees 'lives one of fulfillment and self-actualization or a living hell of frustrated aspirations and hamster-wheel pointlessness.
Bradley W. Bloch: Helpful Advice for Rhodes Scholars (For the Rest of Us, Maybe Not So Much) 2010
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No offense, United Nations, but you're often stuck a hamster-wheel spinning out old ideas.
Sarah Holewinski: Shhh... Listen... It's a quiet revolution for war victims 2010
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Recoil at her hamster-wheel over-attendance at every store opening in Manhattan.
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And what we've been teased with reads rather blandly as a result, as eight pages of setup for a series of hamster-wheel plots.
Continuity Used to Matter at Marvel | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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He didn't want to pick up any thoughts from their hamster-wheel brains, didn't want to see the prying looks coming from their hooded eyes.
The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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When your life turned into one big disappointment, a frantic hamster-wheel blur of work and baby with no one to love you or tell you that you were doing it well, bourbon and Tab did start to take on a certain allure.
Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner 2004
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Now a growing number of primary care physicians have decided that the solution to hamster-wheel care is to bypass the health insurance system entirely.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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There might as well be a Pope Action Man, a Pope hamster-wheel, a Pope cigarette lighter, a Pope oven mitt.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Get a backbone, keep it in place and don't get trapped in the hamster-wheel spinning of The
Ottawa Sun 2010
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