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When "Chuck," for example, is shooting a scene close to the CW's new series "Hart of Dixie," a siren-like bell alerts the adjacent production to keep quiet.
Hollywood's TV Factory Amy Chozick 2011
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In Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets, the web plays a more conventionally disruptive, siren-like role in the disintegration of a suburban family.
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We may have both been thinking of getting some real food by this point till we passed Hudson Valley Organic with siren-like boxes of sprouts.
Liz Neumark: In the Market for Green Liz Neumark 2012
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We may have both been thinking of getting some real food by this point till we passed Hudson Valley Organic with siren-like boxes of sprouts.
Liz Neumark: In the Market for Green Liz Neumark 2012
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A siren-like squeal drowned out his words as a small black body shot between my legs, quills rattling, heading straight for the kitchen.
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 1 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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We may have both been thinking of getting some real food by this point till we passed Hudson Valley Organic with siren-like boxes of sprouts.
Liz Neumark: In the Market for Green Liz Neumark 2012
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A siren-like squeal drowned out his words as a small black body shot between my legs, quills rattling, heading straight for the kitchen.
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Her siren-like voice pierced the air, rising above the din of traffic, and she yelled, "I'm gonna tell Teenie."
The New Intolerance 2010
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With their swirling guitars and siren-like keyboardist, two drummers (one who doubles as a third guitarist -- and add a singer who also plays a drum) this collective sits at the odd crossroads where Jerry Garcia met the Arcade Fire (what? you don't think it could happen?).
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Arising from this new male anxiety and eternal male fantasies of women was the ‘femme fatale’, a siren-like figure of desire whose distinctive characteristics, compared to previous female archetypes, were her independence, strength and ruthless desire.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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