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- noun The
internal workings of amechanism orsystem that are normally hidden from view
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Examples
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But what's really interesting, Tony, is when you look at what we call the internals in these polls.
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An examination of some of the internals from the latest Gallup survey of likely voters leads to the conclusion that these results are wildly implausible.
Alan Abramowitz: Gallup's Implausible Likely Voter Results Alan Abramowitz 2010
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An examination of some of the internals from the latest Gallup survey of likely voters leads to the conclusion that these results are wildly implausible.
Alan Abramowitz: Gallup's Implausible Likely Voter Results Alan Abramowitz 2010
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In the case of the reactor vessel, a giant carbon-steel pot with a stainless-steel liner, the "internals" - the metal frame that held the core and channeled the water on its serpentine path-were chopped up with water jets and cutting tools.
Scientific American 2009
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Everybody is writing about the new poll from the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute finding Scott Walker tanking in the polls, but it seems to me this number from the internals is the key one:
Big majority of Wisconsin independents wants Walker to compromise 2011
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The so-called internals were very interesting; in short few undecided, less than 5%, 90%+ have decided and few plan to reconsider.
TPM Track Composite: Obama's Big Lead Inches Up Yet Again 2009
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The important bit is that 68% of Republicans doubt that evolution exists, but the internals are all the better.
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists. 2007
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Remember poster after Republican poster saying that Webb not releasing his internals was a sign that he was down?
DSCC POLL 2006
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One such policy ax, widely shared at the State Department, was that exiled Iraqi leaders (known as "externals") had no credibility with the "internals" -- Iraqis on the inside.
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CROWLEY: They really, you know, it's called the internals, when you look at some of those exit polls coming out.
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