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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a day after the blow-up , the committee assigned to seek a compromise won a three-month reprieve.
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Few of us are comfortable with confrontations because they frequently lead to full-fledged blow-ups.
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It is possible to find safe harbor but nearly impossible to do so without a few blow-ups.
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It was a job of the utmost precision, and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine.
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Kirov had used his services before, to produce false papers, touch up prints or produce blow-ups from microfilm.
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Mr O'Sullivan filled an enormous cavity completely painlessly, while a video screen showed a blow-up of the tooth being worked on.
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Walls are covered with grainy blow-ups of sleek-jawed Latin athletes.