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At the back of Arevalo's cart -- decorated all over with colorful menu pictures of chicken wings and coconut juice -- is an inverter that holds up to six, foot-long batteries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Season all over with 2 tablespoons of salt and refrigerate, uncovered, overnight.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
The parable concludes on a nakedly nihilistic note: “When it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened,” Nietzsche observes.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
Season the chicken all over with salt and pepper.
From Washington Times ● May 8, 2023
A young officer, a trim black- uniformed figure who seemed to glitter all over with polished leather and whose pale, straight-featured face was like a wax mask, stepped smartly through the doorway.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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