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- adjective Alternative spelling of
out of order .
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Examples
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The film is co-directed by Silva and Pedro Peirano and stars Castro as Isadora, an elderly woman temporarily trapped in her high-rise apartment, with an out-of-order elevator.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Interview: Belgica Castro, star of Old Cats Marshall Fine 2011
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So publishing the Guide in my normal out-of-order manner feels a bit odd to me.
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Berating people for revealing private prejudices in public, for picking on someone less than their own size, for making out-of-order gags… PC became so central to the nation's conversation with itself that I started collecting articles.
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Ah, but notebooks are analogue … The thoughts are, like most handwritten material, jumbled out-of-order and useless without context.
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I've been watching Chaos this summer I know it's canceled, but the episodes are so out-of-order from the show's chronology that watching the episodes is very disjointed and disappointing.
Ask Matt: Killing Finale Fallout, Thrones, Glee Changes and More! 2011
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In the small main lobby, there was an elevator with an out-of-order sign on it older than I was, an open door to a stairway, and a directory with little plastic letters spelling out the names of bail bondsmen and repo services on black felt.
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Breaching the artist-audience contract like this is only out-of-order here, far as I'm concerned, if you're making a limitless amount of perfect forgeries freely available to anyone and everyone.
Gigging for Groats Hal Duncan 2010
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One day Mr. Sleaze comes into the building and finds both elevators are out-of-order.
Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Breaching the artist-audience contract like this is only out-of-order here, far as I'm concerned, if you're making a limitless amount of perfect forgeries freely available to anyone and everyone.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Ah, but notebooks are analogue … The thoughts are, like most handwritten material, jumbled out-of-order and useless without context.
Even Being Overworked Is No Excuse For A Lack Of Inspiration « The Graveyard 2010
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