scatteration
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Origin of scatteration
Example Sentences
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Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture.
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
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 Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett
But I never expected ter work sech a scatteration of the crowd Thar skeer plumb terrified me.
From Una Of The Hill Country 1911 by Murfree, Mary Noailles
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