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  • n  the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)

  • Autopsies are typically performed in private, and on dead people, so the public vivisection this summer of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has at times been a pretty engrossing .
  • Off she goes to our nation's capital, a splash of riotous color in a sea of gloomy suits, to propagate "Bruiser's Bill," prohibiting vivisection in pursuit of improved toners .
  • Besides being a composer, librettist and conductor, he was a tireless writer and proselytizer on subjects as disparate as revolutionary politics, vivisection and racialism.
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  • Jerry Vlasak in Human Events (blog)
    I don't think you'd have to kill-assassinate-too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on,Vlasak said. "And I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2...
  • John Prescott in ic Wales
    In a typical forthright style, Mr Prescott replied: "I don't accept that business about dictatorship or any of that rubbish you have just pushed out. There is a very strong argument about vivisection. I've got to accept that there will be...
  • Morrissey in NME.com
    Morrissey added: "If you agree with vivisection, go and be vivisected upon yourself."

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