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pi kyoohl yer lee

  • r  uniquely or characteristically
    these peculiarly cinematic elements
    a peculiarly French phenomenon
  • r  in a manner differing from the usual or expected
    he's behaving rather peculiarly
  • r  to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
    under peculiarly tragic circumstances

  • Longyis, like much else in Burma, may seem strange to Western eyes, but they are peculiarly suited to Burma.
  • From its first days, Marxism-Leninism has been peculiarly blind to the potentiality of nationalism to trample like an enraged warthog through the neat corn rows of class theory and .
  • Of course, we never heard the name Madoff which has a peculiarly Dickensian ring now and had no idea how he achieved such fantastic returns over the past 40 years.
News & Articles

  • Moving beyond sustainability
    Sustainability is a word that can be both peculiarly vague and intimidating at the same time. Many fail to see how their actions can contribute to
    June 12, 2013 - Park Record
  • College World Series 2013: Looking back on the coolest names of the super regionals
    If you watched much of the 2013 NCAA Baseball Tournament super regionals over the weekend, a few names being announced by the commentators may have earned a double take. After all, it's not often you hear "Now coming to the plate, Dusty Dishman." There were a good deal of such peculiarly cool names spotting the rosters of the super regional teams, enough, as it turns out, to fill out a lineup ...
    June 12, 2013 - SB Nation
  • Getting smogged
    Spent part of yesterday doing that peculiarly California-ized ritual, the smogging of the vehicle. As it had a bad v-tec solenoid, it had flunked initially and so the re-test was a little nerve wracking, deadlines and all.
    June 7, 2013 - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Quotes

  • Mitch McConnell in Wall Street Journal
    78, Alexander Hamilton explained why, in our constitutional system, "the complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential."
  • Mark Twain in Bloomberg
    October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in,Twain wrote in "Pudd'nhead Wilson," published in 1894. "The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and...
  • Alexander Hamilton in Wall Street Journal
    Of all the cares or concerns of government,as Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 74, "the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand."

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