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- His modus operandi is to attack the speaker rather than discuss the ideas.
- But things were finally starting to look more promising, thanks to Fischer's growing celebrity and to the efforts of his business partner-cum-office manager, Karen Dickinson, whose organizational skills and levelheadedness compensated for Fischer's seat-of-the-pants, what-me-worry modus operandi.† (source)
- Failing that, if contact was absolutely necessary, a series of thumb jabs to the nerve cluster at the base of the neck would be his chosen modus operandi — quiet as a whisper.† (source)
- She was spinning in crazy circles only because she was trying to survive, and movement was always her modus operandi when things got tough.† (source)
- Modus Operandi† (source)
- There are enough similarities in the modus operandi to rule out unrelated crimes.† (source)
- This meant the SEALS could not fly in, land or fast rope near the target, perform their mission, and fly out—their usual modus operandi.† (source)
- Your modus operandi.† (source)
- We "Goliaths" felt confident that we would jump ahead and not look back, which had always been our modus operandi.† (source)
- A brilliant if overdone modus operandi.† (source)
- Reform, not punishment, is her modus operandi, and Celia has succeeded in converting many young delinquents into productive revolutionaries.† (source)
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- Having someone walk me to my car was my modus operandi back then.† (source)
- Rise, kill, and eat—that's my modus operandi.† (source)
- Years were to pass, along with much study in Jewish sociology and the reading of books like Goodbye, Columbus and Marjorie Morningstar, before I would learn of the existence of the archetypal Jewish princess, her modus operandi and her significance in the scheme of things.† (source)
- My modus operandi is one of skepticism, to view the claims of religion in the same open-minded way that we would view claims of any other sort. (source)
- His modus operandi.† (source)
- Nothing to it at the time-but it's possible that the idea of the modus operandi for his next crime occurred to our man then.† (source)
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