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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The free stationery is just a come-on ; we want to get kids writing to penpals around the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his basic belief was so widespread that gay men themselves sometimes used it as a come-on .
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But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on , that's more worrying.
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Four years ago, he was a bit tentative in his come-on .
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Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last, he readily accepted.
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Instead there was true obscenity, the obscenity of deceitfulness and come-on lies.
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It's a come-on for their other-paid-for-services.
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Others want to keep him in action where he is, a historical fact and tourist come-on .
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Will women respond to the Republicans' simplistic come-on ?