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- noun Alternative spelling of
set piece .
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Examples
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The story is just cut cut cut from one set-piece to the next.
REVIEW: The Losers « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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Another Xavi set-piece, this time a free-kick from the left, causes havoc in the Real area, but Busquets heads just over when it was easier to score.
Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012
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"You can see the worth of a really good set-piece deliverer, like Charlie Adam off the top of my head, who can make such a difference to your team, so I have tried to tell Mikel to step away from them."
David Moyes takes Mikel Arteta off Everton set piece duty 2011
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The resulting cease-fire seemed to be a victory for the insurgents, who had generally avoided set-piece battles with the better-trained and equipped U.S. military.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Occasionally the story will plateau with an exquisitely rendered supernatural set-piece but the second the dust settles, Duffy turns the screw again.
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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But I prefer a female character that is more than a set-piece.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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For Americans, the world is more like baseball and American football -- set-piece, legalistic and obsessed with risk to an extreme, points-productive, with a clearly envisioned end-state, and overly commercialized and monetized.
Christopher Holshek: Learning From the Girls Christopher Holshek 2011
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For Americans, the world is more like baseball and American football -- set-piece, legalistic and obsessed with risk to an extreme, points-productive, with a clearly envisioned end-state, and overly commercialized and monetized.
Christopher Holshek: Learning From the Girls Christopher Holshek 2011
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The United States should donate free set-piece libraries to poor countries capable of taking the user from primars to college texts free of charge, such libraries would have an extremely high particiapation rate, as the poor are not stupid, but lacking in access.
Lucas on Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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She would conspire with the tabloids in staging her set-piece spectacles but also present herself as an aggrieved victim of the bloodthirsty paparazzi.
The Princess Reimagined Sam Sacks 2011
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