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So it seems I have the semi-ironic task of blogging about a seminar on blogging.
Kurt Michael Friese: LiveBlogging From Edible Institute 2011 (Highlights from DAY 2) Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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So it seems I have the semi-ironic task of blogging about a seminar on blogging.
Kurt Michael Friese: LiveBlogging From Edible Institute 2011 (Highlights from DAY 2) Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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And, as my colleague Alexandra Petri notes, perhaps among his most enduring contributions is coining the semi-ironic Internet parlance that describes the Web in terms of “tubes.”
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Way back in July, the buzzing stealth passion project from writer/director, Scott Sanders, and writer/star, Michael Jai White, miraculously won me over by making exhausted, semi-ironic blaxploitation homage seem fresh again.
Black Dynamite Red Band Movie Trailer 2 (What the What!?!) | /Film 2008
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Apparently wanting to make light of the situation, which has resulted as many as 89 deaths, Fox Business decided to use a semi-ironic musical accompaniment.
Fox Business Segment On Runaway Toyotas Teased With An Awkwardly Sad Song (VIDEO) 2010
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On my 21st birthday in the real 80's vs. the semi-ironic 80's we ate at the McDonalds in Times Square, strictly ironically.
Hands On: The Latest In Grips BikeSnobNYC 2009
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However, I always thought someone should do a semi-ironic article making a case about how prophetic the movie producers and writers were.
Steele... Ann Althouse 2009
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Such usages are always semi-ironic, or at least conscious of their own absurdity--and that's probably what makes them appealing.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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In 1964, as the growing progressive movement watched with increasing apprehension while Lyndon Johnson began the escalation in Vietnam, they coined the semi-ironic campaign slogan "Part of the Way with LBJ" as they helped campaign for LBJ against the truly frightening Republican challenger, Barry ( "Better Dead Than Red") Goldwater.
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"Czar" is an informal -- and semi-ironic -- title that connotes a certain policy portfolio.
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