scatteration
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Origin of scatteration
Example Sentences
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Corcoran, Cohen�are separately employed to the point of scatteration.
From Time Magazine Archive
As SEC announced it would do last July, it set about breaking up this "scatteration" of utility holdings in the first exercise of its most bitterly attacked utility duty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Humphrey regime would probably be frenetic in its scatteration of ideas—and of money, too, if Humphrey's admitted "looking at the stars" is to be reduced to practical programs.
From Time Magazine Archive
If such concentration of energy is necessary for the success of a Gladstone, what can we common mortals hope to accomplish by "scatteration?"
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett
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