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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of similar correlated phases of development in the growth stages of allied species of a single genus or race.
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Examples
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Forex, the girl's question was something like "do you think tourism and the military make up too large a part of our economy and how would you change that" (my paraphase is bad; her question was well phrased and direct).
Politics/Media kateelliott 2006
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My humble attempt to paraphase although I really think you should go back and re-read the post
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If I may paraphase, this is one of the finest quotes I have read in some time.
How Did For a New Liberty Influence MRV?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To paraphase an old Texas saying, some folks deserve dying.
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To paraphase an old Texas saying, some folks deserve dying.
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All this to say that the truth, to paraphase Thoreau, is that you don't own stuff.
Junk Suzanne 2009
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Tolerance is not a suicide pact, to paraphase a much more famous quote.
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Warren Buffet stated (paraphase) that we are selling off America a little at time, but that it was big country and most don't notice.
This Bud's for Vous 2008
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One reader's meat is another one's poison, to paraphase an old adage.
Archive 2008-08-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008
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One reader's meat is another one's poison, to paraphase an old adage.
Can't please all the readers all the time DAVID BISHOP 2008
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