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  • We finished the first phase of the project.
    phase = a stage during the development of something
  • So began a kind of storytelling phase in the living room each night.   (source)
    phase = period of time
  • Then came the treatment phase.   (source)
    phase = stage (of the development of something)
  • Cato has finished the first phase of his tantrum and takes out his anger on the smoking remains by kicking open various containers.   (source)
    phase = a period of time during the development of something
  • There was what Mom called Dad's "beer phase."   (source)
    phase = a period of time during someone's development
  • Louie then prepared for the second phase of the plan.   (source)
    phase = stage (of the development of something)
  • You'll have to do Phase Two.   (source)
    phase = a stage in the development of something
  • There was even a photo of him from his "hair replacement system" phase.   (source)
    phase = a period of time during the development of someone or something
  • If he wished, he could linger here, in comfort, and follow the entire hunt on through its swift phases, down alleys, across streets, over empty running avenues, crossing lots and playgrounds, with...   (source)
    phases = stages (of the development of something)
  • I finally told Daddy that I love "him" more than I do Mother, to which he replied that it was just a passing phase, but I don't think so.   (source)
    phase = a period of time during someone's development
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  • Too many parents ignore this phase of a child's development.   (source)
    phase = a stage in the development of something
  • The boys were going through a phase of "enjoying" rounders in order to flirt with us, so there were over thirty of us that afternoon.   (source)
    phase = a period of time or a stage during the development of something
  • That was either a phase or a ploy to get attention and drive Cindy crazy.   (source)
  • This happened to a great extent during the final phase of capitalism, roughly between 1920 and 1940.   (source)
    phase = a period of time during the development of something
  • I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.   (source)
    phase = a period of time or a stage during the development of something
  • ...the prolonged strain of Lucy's illness and its horrible phases is telling on me.   (source)
    phases = periods of time or stages during the development of something
  • But, as it was against all the rules of their code that the mother and son should ever allude to what was uppermost in their thoughts, he simply replied: "Oh, well, there's always a phase of family parties to be gone through when one gets engaged, and the sooner it's over the better."   (source)
    phase = stage (of the development of something)
  • She might, in one of her phases, have been a prophetess.   (source)
    phases = stages of development
  • The Red Coast Project completed its testing and breaking-in phases, settling down into routine operation.†   (source)
  • They had clocks that displayed the phases of the moon, the progress of the seasons, and the cycle of the tides.†   (source)
  • The three parts represent the three major phases in our coming of age.†   (source)
  • On the fourth night after Hedwig's departure Harry was lying in one of his apathetic phases, staring at the ceiling, his exhausted mind quite blank, when his uncle entered his bedroom.†   (source)
  • She cared about what we did or failed to do—our homework, our chores, our share of the cooking and cleaning—and expected our feelings about these doings to rise and fall according to some sort of childhood barometer, irrelevant to her, having to do with "phases."†   (source)
  • Like Picasso, I've gone through different phases.†   (source)
  • "Lunar phases and tidal motion," she said.†   (source)
  • The desert nights were cold, and were becoming darker and darker as the phases of the moon passed.†   (source)
  • There was a fake moon that went through its phases, he discovered later.†   (source)
  • It said: "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.†   (source)
  • Three phases follow: physical training, diving, land warfare.†   (source)
  • She had her good and bad phases, but finally stopped sleepwalking once and for all.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just that the boys back home had watched me pass slowly through all the awkward phases of adolescence and still thought of me that way.†   (source)
  • Rina said these phases were normal, even documented.†   (source)
  • Of the three, biblical myth probably covers the greatest range of human situations, encompassing all ages of life including the next life, all relationships whether personal or governmental, and all phases of the individual's experience, physical, sexual, psychological, spiritual.†   (source)
  • I guess it's fair to say there were two distinct phases to my life in West Virginia: everything that happened before October 5, 1957 and everything that happened afterward.†   (source)
  • See, we got a plan, and the plan is divided up into different phases.†   (source)
  • Dad went through the five phases of grieving—denial, anger, acceptance, whatever—in like one day.†   (source)
  • The change was happening so fast that her flesh had no time to adapt and she was caught between phases: young eyes in an old face, a girl's head on a woman's body, a woman's body with a child's arms.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza tried to help her unfasten her stays, but she anticipated him with a deft maneuver, for in five years of matrimonial devotion she learned to depend on herself in all phases of love, even the preliminary stages, with no help from anyone.†   (source)
  • Jamis has been called by Him, by Shai-hulud, who has ordained the phases for the moons that daily wane and—in the end—appear as bent and withered twigs.†   (source)
  • As best I can puzzle it out, there were two distinct phases.†   (source)
  • I had seen this look many times, but in a context where you might expect it, in a patient suffering from terminal cancer or in the final phases of old age.†   (source)
  • If we are disturbed during our dream phases we become nervous and irritable.†   (source)
  • Change comes in phases, Ma'at and Chaos, Chaos and Ma'at.†   (source)
  • The years after Ruth's death, I sometimes think, can be divided into four phases.†   (source)
  • Whether the phases of the moon influence the number and quality of the opals that form in the roots of the Beor Mountains, as is commonly held among the dwarves.†   (source)
  • ' I'd almost forgotten how great a cook Mom was, at least when she wasn't too busy writing or going through one of her 'I'm not your damn servant!' phases.†   (source)
  • Auggie and I had gone through a lot of phases by then.†   (source)
  • I hadn't thought about that, how he'd seen me go through the many phases of growing up, both on and off screen.†   (source)
  • The ten-week course included three phases.†   (source)
  • A student who couldn't pass all the requirements could be dropped completely from the course or, if instructors saw potential, rolled into the following course during any of the three phases of BUD/S.†   (source)
  • It was during these final phases of training, in July of 1944, that a distinguished visitor began to make himself visible at Pendleton.†   (source)
  • They looked like circles and crescents, maybe the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • I learned that the phases of the moon ruled not only the planting but almost every part of their lives.†   (source)
  • He wanted her back, and always said this was just one of her phases.†   (source)
  • Sunrises, sunsets, phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • It was one of those that Arya had spied from the lagoon, a mighty mass of snow-white marble topped by a huge silvered dome whose milk-glass windows showed all the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • Inside the work area, the garage was littered with parts, tools, and vehicles in all phases of repair.†   (source)
  • At least under the first phases of torture.†   (source)
  • For Mendemen, whose measured time in days, phases of the moon, and the seasons, six weeks was not considered very long.†   (source)
  • I'm not surprised," the attorney Giuliani said, taking out of his vest a gold pocket watch that showed phases of the moon against a star-dotted indigo sky.†   (source)
  • Others can't rise because they're simply too weak, in the early phases of dying from starvation.†   (source)
  • These exchanges caused us to revise our calendar, to speed some phases, slow others.†   (source)
  • The happy days of the universal scholar who was able to take a keen interest in all phases of natural history were at an end, and I was forced to recognize the unpalatable necessity of specializing, if I was to succeed as a professional biologist.†   (source)
  • As she watched Nathan, Sophie felt she was regarding a person in the grip of a delayed realization, as in one of the later phases of shock.†   (source)
  • WHEN GRIEF AND SHOCK surpass endurance there occur phases of exhaustion, of anesthesia in which relatively little is left and one has the illusion of recognizing, and understanding, a good deal.†   (source)
  • The new phases of things leave my mind in a state of wonder which allows no room for active thought.   (source)
    phases = stages (of the development of something)
  • It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.   (source)
    phase = a period of time or a stage during the development of something
  • If this new phase was spontaneous, or in any way due to her unconscious influence, she must have some rare gift or power.   (source)
    phase = stage (of the development of something)
  • I used my knowledge of this phase of spiritual pathology, and set down a rule that she should not be present with Lucy, or think of her illness more than was absolutely required.   (source)
  • I had a growing conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet another phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all lunatics, give himself away in the end.   (source)
  • It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town.   (source)
    phase = stages of development
  • This earthly faintness, was, in their view, only another phase of the minister's celestial strength; nor would it have seemed a miracle too high to be wrought for one so holy, had he ascended before their eyes, waxing dimmer and brighter, and fading at last into the light of heaven!   (source)
    phase = stage of development
  • That would be a tangent from our main conversation, which is about all the phases of the plan.†   (source)
  • The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous, and insanely dangerous.†   (source)
  • The phases of the moon, since it's only dark enough to see the lights at certain times?†   (source)
  • Such faith, like the faith in sunrise or the phases of the moon, sustained me.†   (source)
  • Then rising from his chair, he approached the engravings, which upon closer inspection depicted three phases of a foxhunt: "The Scent,"†   (source)
  • But now my legs and arms seemed thin and spindly, marked here and there by blue-black or black-yellow bruises in different phases of healing, scrapes and spots where the skin had been twisted and yanked that someone else wouldn't notice but I could not miss.†   (source)
  • Every week, according to the phases of the moon — dark, first quarter, full. second quarter — the women stand in the tidal pools and call the unlucky fish by name — only fish, nothing more specific.†   (source)
  • Marx believed that in all phases of history there has been a conflict between two dominant classes of society.†   (source)
  • Working as lab partners, we had to separate the slides of onion root tip cells into the phases of mitosis they represented and label them accordingly.†   (source)
  • That question was asked during the very first phases of the Red Coast Project, and continued to be asked until the end.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: "Cowsheds" were locations set up by work units (factories, schools, towns, etc.) during the early phases of the Cultural Revolution to detain the counter-revolutionary "Monsters and Demons" (reactionary academic authorities, rightists, the Five Black Categories, etc.) at the work unit.†   (source)
  • NEW PHASES COMING SOON! it said.†   (source)
  • Different phases of the sequence showed on different screens and the spectator's eye could jump from Zapruder 239 back to 185, and down to the headshot, and over to the opening frames, and on the TV wall the sets and frames were geared to patterns.†   (source)
  • We went through the same phases at the same times; we both liked gory movies and sappy stuff, and we knew every word to every song on the old musical soundtracks my parents had.†   (source)
  • Instead, the lights are actually those of the Henrickson Paper Mill and are influenced by the train as it crosses the trestle, the location of Riker's Hill, and the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • Marvin was not a night person but he knew one place he might take her, one street really, that's all it was, called the Float, out near the old hippie district, shops that came and went overnight, buildings without house numbers, an area catering to very select desires that changed with the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • We would conduct Operation Gothic Serpent in three phases: First, deploy to Mogadishu and set up a base; Second, go after Aidid; and Third, if we didn't succeed in apprehending Aidid, go after his lieutenants.†   (source)
  • And so Blankenburger was surprised when, near dawn, he heard Mike say quietly: "I'm not coming back from this one, Ed." Over 70,000 Marines—the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions—massed in the ships that had finally arrived at Island X, ready to hit the narrow two-mile beach in successive phases.†   (source)
  • Omission was now to be corrected by an activist program, a five-year plan in which all phases of life in Authority's trusteeship would be overhauled.†   (source)
  • Then one swimmer seems to pass through Rose and to linger in the passing, and she knows that she is with little Nina Carpenter, the girl with the lopsided smile, the giver of Pigs and Princes, who is dead and gone but safe, dead and gone but not lost forever, happy and alive in an elsewhere beyond this swarming blue brightness, which is not really a place itself but an interface between phases of existence.†   (source)
  • The depression and recovery after Ruth's passing was the first of those phases; the period in which I tried to move on as best I could was the second.†   (source)
  • At this point, we have not determined either the number or timing of the subsequent phases, as those will no doubt be affected by the progress today.†   (source)
  • As most of you are aware, the auction has been scheduled in phases, the first of which will be happening today.†   (source)
  • I could only surmise from what she said about her first six months at Auschwitz that the shock and grief caused by Eva's death created a bereavement which might have destroyed her, too, had it not been for Jan and his survival; the very fact that the little boy still lived, even though beyond her reach, and that she might somehow eventually get to see him was enough to sustain her through the initial phases of the nightmare.†   (source)
  • With Julia there were no phases, no start-line, no tactics at all.†   (source)
  • The people in them are always emerging from Phases, aren't they?†   (source)
  • It is as though he desires to see his native earth in all its phases for the first or the last time.†   (source)
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  • My baby sister is in a phase where she doesn't like different foods to touch on her plate.
  • When I was young, I went through a phase where I was deathly afraid of the dark.
  • In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.   (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits a particular behavior
  • This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong; but my memory of it is that my approaching Tommy that afternoon was part of a phase I was going through around that time—something to do with compulsively setting myself challenges—and I'd more or less forgotten all about it when Tommy stopped me a few days later.   (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
  • But she had grown close to Beatrice, and she held out hope that Mandela was going through a phase, that he would behave and do what he was told, like his little brother.   (source)
  • Lou Ann was going through a phase of cutting her own hair every other day.   (source)
  • I saw it when she first came to see me, and I guess I hoped it was a phase, but the more she came to visit, the worse she seemed to be feeling.   (source)
  • I'm just going through a phase right now.   (source)
  • But my poor child is going through a phase of exaltation, of abhorrence of the world.   (source)
  • Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?   (source)
    phases = periods of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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  • Meanwhile, at home, Gretchen was going through this phase where she could not make it through an entire meal if Dad was at the table.   (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
  • This was in part because Dad was going through a phase of his own wherein he couldn't stop pretending to be a cannibal.   (source)
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  • The total increase in the minimum wage will be phased in over the next three years.
  • This remembered world was somehow more vivid than the physical world I inhabited, and I phased between them.†   (source)
  • Instead, a farcaster essentially is just a crude hole ripped in space/time by a phased singularity.†   (source)
  • When we stop phasing for a solid length of time, we age again.†   (source)
  • In an open letter to the government, we called for the dismissal of Magnus Malan, the minister of defense, and Adriaan Vlok, the minister of law and order; the banning of the carrying of traditional weapons in public; the phasing out of the migrant-worker hostels, where so many Inkatha members lived in the townships around Johannesburg; the dismantling of secret government counterinsurgency units; and the appointment of an independent commission to probe complaints of misconduct on the…†   (source)
  • Twenty years ago, Dad's first act as king was to dissolve the castes, and the old system had been phased out slowly over my lifetime.†   (source)
  • Wolverine, the company that makes Hush Puppies, was thinking of phasing out the shoes that made them famous.†   (source)
  • His taste buds seemed to have phased into the shadow world permanently.†   (source)
  • Nobody saw Cotter until the vendor appeared, black rays phasing from his hands.†   (source)
  • The Army was phasing out the green and the white uniforms in favor of the blue.†   (source)
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  • For almost a year as the SR-71 was being phased out, I had signed paperwork swearing to absolute secrecy about my involvement with the Stealth program, even though the aircraft had already been revealed to the public.†   (source)
  • "My husband always did call his electronic gadgets 'bricks' when they got phased out."†   (source)
  • The first night the banging hail on the tin roof phased in and out of my consciousness.†   (source)
  • The first time it happened — the first time he phased — he thought he'd gone insane.†   (source)
  • Phasing was very easy when I was centered like this.†   (source)
  • As many of you know, Captain Gunilla has been phasing in new equipment over the past few months.†   (source)
  • Even Sam couldn't have phased on the fly like that.†   (source)
  • If Jacob phased with Seth so close… "C'mon, Jake.†   (source)
  • I wasn't phasing back until Leah was asleep.†   (source)
  • "He phased in front of Charlie," Edward hissed.†   (source)
  • I was only about a mile from where I'd left my clothes, so I phased back to human and walked.†   (source)
  • I wished I'd noticed her earlier, before Jacob had phased.†   (source)
  • You know, being phased out.†   (source)
  • He seemed in a state of constant transition, phasing in and out of dimensions, unsure whether to be my father's son or his wife's husband.†   (source)
  • They got phased out, all right.†   (source)
  • They haven't phased back, Seth said.†   (source)
  • She phased to her human form and—†   (source)
  • I'm going to have to talk to him, and I want to be positive there isn't anything else going on while I'm phased.†   (source)
  • "Lemme see… I phased back and got dressed, and then after he started breathing again, I said something like, 'Charlie, you don't live in the world you thought you lived in.†   (source)
  • Someone's phasing?†   (source)
  • And then I phased.†   (source)
  • —why, it wasn't even phased.†   (source)
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  • After that she went into a poem-writing phase, making them up as she boated through the marsh or looked for shells—simple verses, singsong and silly.†   (source)
  • But each word, in itself, accounts for no more than a single phase of this "greatest achievement in the history of British shipbuilding.†   (source)
  • Claude knew enough about fire to understand that this was a phase, that the fire, or what was soon going to be a fire, was smoldering along the old timbers, probably in the straw as well, exploring hidden paths and alleyways in search of fuel and oxygen.†   (source)
  • "Good idea," I said, hoping his newly generous view of useless purchases was more than a passing phase.†   (source)
  • Research Report on the Initial Phase of the Red Coast Project (XMOC/196X†   (source)
  • Gradually we began to see where we had failed Cassie as parents, especially in the period leading up to her most troubled phase.†   (source)
  • The Bronx was in its postapocalyptic phase.†   (source)
  • Once I was sure all three of them had received my message, I initiated the next phase of my plan.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's just a phase.†   (source)
  • Minutes later, Teabing got out of the car, climbed into the rear again, cleaned up the evidence, and finally emerged to carry out the final phase of his mission.†   (source)
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  • Trina was convicted of second-degree murder, and the trial moved to the sentencing phase.†   (source)
  • "You are now entering a most important phase of your magical education!" she told them, her eyes glinting dangerously behind her square spectacles.†   (source)
  • Phase One, to be exact.†   (source)
  • Mom was going through some snobbish upper-class phase with husband number one.†   (source)
  • A second phase?†   (source)
  • Is this the next phase in my punishment?†   (source)
  • It's not just a phase I'm seeing.†   (source)
  • "We were talking about phase two," Wu said.†   (source)
  • We agreed that the war was just a passing phase that wouldn't last over three months.†   (source)
  • We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously.†   (source)
  • When the old astrologer swatted me under a banyan tree, we were both acting out a final phase of a social order that had gone on untouched for thousands of years.†   (source)
  • Heather: "When you get through this Life Sucks phase, I'm sure lots of people will want to be your friend.†   (source)
  • "This is the first phase of the job," he said.†   (source)
  • He has his rifle, of course, but there'll be no hunting during this phase of the rescue operation.†   (source)
  • Viewed as a clinical trial, I'm in Phase Zero, which is when micro-dosing takes place.†   (source)
  • I applaud the young men and women who havecompleted this phase of the program, and I heartily encourage them to continue their studies as they plan to enter into medical fields.†   (source)
  • But as time progressed the food dreams seemed to phase out and he dreamed of other things—of friends, of his parents (always of their worry, how they wanted to see him; sometimes that they were back together) and more and more of girls.†   (source)
  • And that was how I came to enter a new, miserable phase of my life, namely — death.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4: The Birth of HeLa For information on Gey's development of the roller drum, see "An Improved Technic for Massive Tissue Culture," American Journal of Cancer 17 (1933); for his early work filming cells, see G. O. Gey and W. M. Firor, "Phase Contrast Microscopy of Living Cells," Annals of Surgery 125 (1946).†   (source)
  • For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?†   (source)
  • You've reached the next phase of your training.†   (source)
  • "What we do know," Rachel said, "is that the first phase has begun.†   (source)
  • The next morning, losing heart (for, usually, waking up sick at this phase of the kick plan, I very quickly lost my nerve), I crushed thirty and then sixty milligrams of Roxicodone on the marble top of the nightstand, inhaled it through a cut straw, then unwilling to flush the rest of the pills (well over two thousand dollars' worth) got up, dressed, flushed my nose with saline spray, and, after squirrelling away a few more of the long-acting morphs in case the "withdraws" as Jerome…†   (source)
  • Gale and the other people already chosen to go to the Capitol are in a different, accelerated phase of training.†   (source)
  • PHASE TWO†   (source)
  • Because that was the second phase of Operation Rose-branch.†   (source)
  • "They think it's a phase."†   (source)
  • Plus, even though she takes her makeup off to sleep, she still has on eyeliner, because she had it tattooed onto her eyelids back in the eighties when she went through a brief manic phase shortly after Princess Grace died (according to my mom).†   (source)
  • It was near the end of this phase that he began to notice that Brett never brought his dates home, or Mike and Becky their chums.†   (source)
  • Her life had entered a new phase, and while I suppose it was possible to say the same thing about me, the simple fact was that nothing much had changed on my end, unless you counted the fact that I now knew how to assemble and disassemble eight types of weapons instead of six and I'd increased my bench press by another thirty pounds.†   (source)
  • Monday morning ushered in a new phase of my life—dating Noah Hutchins in public.†   (source)
  • Gold began, "David is still in the adjustment phase.†   (source)
  • Shortly after this he lapsed into a violent phase that went on for several weeks.†   (source)
  • I traded my white shirt for brown and began part two of BUD/S, the dive phase.†   (source)
  • No in-between phase.†   (source)
  • But it could not last, of course, and on the spring day when Sol stepped onto the porch and saw his weeping seven-year-old daughter coming back from the park surrounded and followed by a pack of newsteeps, their camera implants gleaming and cornlogs extended, he knew that a phase of their life was over forever.†   (source)
  • First phase.†   (source)
  • The successful crossing represented a high point of this phase of the escape.†   (source)
  • "I told you," I said to Rina, "my mother's going through some kind of weird adapting phase."†   (source)
  • But this was only the dream phase.†   (source)
  • Time for phase two.†   (source)
  • In the second, calmer phase of their lives as parents, he'd become a laugher, a constant laugher, a man who laughed at everything.†   (source)
  • He paused in delight at the odd-placed landings, pounded on the crooked walls, and laughed aloud as the floor levels of the two old houses continued out of phase.†   (source)
  • An hour before dawn we moved in for the last phase.†   (source)
  • When it gets to California, it will enter a new phase of its life cycle.†   (source)
  • Before the penalty phase of the Washington lawsuit, the two sides reached a settlement; Taco Bell agreed to pay millions of dollars in back wages, but admitted no wrongdoing.†   (source)
  • Elle had never quite got over her Goth phase.†   (source)
  • And I can tell you this: When the kids are older, they're going to go through this phase where they absolutely, achingly need to know: 'Who was my dad?†   (source)
  • There could be no doubt that a new phase of its liquidation had begun.†   (source)
  • But he knew all this as more an impression of her than from actually seeing her, as she seemed to phase in and out of his vision.†   (source)
  • SUSPENSOR: secondary (low-drain) phase of a Holtzman field generator.†   (source)
  • In every phase of the surgery, this was the underlying question.†   (source)
  • Phase back,Sam directed them.†   (source)
  • This was a happy, fulfilling and creative phase.†   (source)
  • I had seen men and women at this phase of the end of life many times.†   (source)
  • The first phase was a new scientific method.†   (source)
  • Pausing in my work to overlook that pristine expanse, I felt the same profound thrill it gives me to see trees and grassland waist-high under flood water-as if the usual order of the world had shifted slightly, and entered a new phase.†   (source)
  • During this phase, Saeed's father started to be cast, or to cast himself, more and more often, as the one who tried to initiate sex.†   (source)
  • By now he had entered the phase of medical school known as clinical rotations, stretches of training at Boston hospitals, usually lasting a month apiece.†   (source)
  • Every phase of this turmoil is conveyed to us by the camera.†   (source)
  • These days, when Lewis was late at the office, working on another publication deadline, and Lacy was so exhausted she could fall asleep standing up in the hospital elevator, she tried to convince herself it was simply a phase they were stuck in: a baby boot camp that would surely transform one day into contentment and satisfaction and togetherness and all the other parameters Lewis plotted on his computer programs.†   (source)
  • My outburst catapulted him into a more vocal phase of depression.†   (source)
  • The chief and others warned against this new phase becoming an excuse for neglecting the essential tasks of organization and the traditional methods of struggle.†   (source)
  • That was the beginning of what we called our space phase.†   (source)
  • This happened during the last phase, while he was on the respirator.†   (source)
  • The phase lasted.†   (source)
  • He actually greeted both Miss Hastings and me as we began the next phase of our odyssey.†   (source)
  • Sedeete is in charge of that phase of the operation.†   (source)
  • They're still in the glowy phase.†   (source)
  • I started the next phase of the descent and left Pol to help the magus and Ambiades.†   (source)
  • A loud two-phase buzzer and a rotating red alarm light went off.†   (source)
  • I had to go through my awkward phase.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Levy showed President Ernesto Zedillo how successful the experiment had been, and Zedillo bravely agreed to phase out food subsidies and launch the new program nationwide.†   (source)
  • On May 11 Smith began the third phase of starting gate instruction.†   (source)
  • In Third Phase, Dive Phase, we learned underwater navigation and techniques for sabotaging ships.†   (source)
  • I did my job as part of the phase-out.†   (source)
  • As he began the first phase of BUD/S, Kelley charged into her own grueling routine.†   (source)
  • Though he didn't fully recognize it yet, a new phase in Mortenson's life had now begun.†   (source)
  • As the tour neared the final phase of its eight-week loop around America, John and Rene could not have fully appreciated the scale of what they had accomplished.†   (source)
  • What if Bird's religiousness wasn't just a passing phase but a permanent state of fanaticism?†   (source)
  • When my mom died, I went through the angry phase.†   (source)
  • I had a mad dancing phase for about an hour.†   (source)
  • He went through a phase of being too good to be true but now he's being surly.†   (source)
  • The murder investigation had entered a new phase.†   (source)
  • Marcos's heroic resurrection made everyone forget about his barrel-organ phase.†   (source)
  • Supervising this entire phase of the operation was a medical officer with a flair for accounting who okayed pulses and checked the figures of the tally clerk.†   (source)
  • With our footbinding behind us, Madame Wang negotiated the Contracting a Kin phase for all three of our marriages.†   (source)
  • Although the stacks looked random, I could tell you the location of every box—from the white Adidas box with my lighter collection from my eighth grade pyro phase, to the green New Balance box with the shell casings and a torn piece of flag I found at Fort Sumter with my mom.†   (source)
  • The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.†   (source)
  • 'Beauty by mistake'the final phase in the history of beauty.†   (source)
  • Except even at the start, when we were in that can'tget-enough-of-you phase, there was like some invisible wall between us.†   (source)
  • Herschel and Ramona performed well, even admirably, as the conversation passed through its first phase.†   (source)
  • They had prepared two installations for this final phase, one in Paris, one in Marseilles on the southern coast of France.†   (source)
  • Yes, but what is the next phase?†   (source)
  • Please exit door marked Testing 2-C. Phase one is complete, Dallas, Lieutenant Eve.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist cut the interviews to a minimum, and in recent months he had relented only when the woman from She on TV4 talked him into it, and that had happened only because the investigation had apparently moved into a new phase.†   (source)
  • At first, his troop did well enough, but after the king escaped from the hands of the army, the second phase of the war went ill for him.†   (source)
  • For a time, the spirit may become flesh, but when that phase of its existence is at an end, it will be transformed into a disembodied spirit once more.†   (source)
  • What was phase one?†   (source)
  • At first, I think my parents thought it was a phase.†   (source)
  • Why it had been sent was as yet unrevealed, but, judging by precedent, there had very likely been a phase of irreligious arrogance prevailing at the time.†   (source)
  • I was excited for him to start his next phase of life with his family.†   (source)
  • Today, Rowan enters a new phase of existence—one that embraces the best of her legacy even as she rises up to break new ground.†   (source)
  • He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of the Second World War.†   (source)
  • I associate this song with her coming back from a particularly crazy phase.†   (source)
  • It was observed long ago that all American history is a transition from an Atlantic to a Pacific phase.†   (source)
  • We now enter the phase when Lalla is best remembered.†   (source)
  • Part of me wanted to rush down to the hospital, but another part of me didn't want to intrude on this acute and very personal phase of grief.†   (source)
  • Manhattan was going to be the next stage, the next phase of his life.†   (source)
  • "The conclusions of this phase are irrefutable," cried the lecturer.†   (source)
  • As the metallic effect was slightly out of phase with the initial concussion, beginning an instant later and ending an instant later, so with the soundless waves that followed upon each shot.†   (source)
  • At each house, she was invited inside, told to sit down, and urged to tell a story about some phase of her life.†   (source)
  • This is a passing phase.†   (source)
  • There is just Phase Two.†   (source)
  • It's not like when you phase out doing some routine chore but you're still aware that time has passed.†   (source)
  • I'm in a Split Enz kind of phase right now, hence the sneakers.†   (source)
  • Penalty Phase of Trial.†   (source)
  • But once it seemed clear that all armed effectives were inside Warden's residence, Prof ordered Mike to start next phase.†   (source)
  • The first phase of the operation, declared Gabriel, batting away another onslaught of pipe smoke, was over.†   (source)
  • At least the first phase.†   (source)
  • I now had to rush the second phase of my plan into execution.†   (source)
  • His mother tells him something like, It's only a phase.†   (source)
  • Jeanette Seaver was my editor during the production phase, and she managed to get the art department to use my father's photograph of Mt. Taylor and old Acoma pueblo for the cover of the book jacket.†   (source)
  • In Phase Two the government will use clear channel stations to tell you what's happening.†   (source)
  • It is merely the first phase.†   (source)
  • He said no, but so abruptly out of phase now with her own thoughts he could even have been lying.†   (source)
  • A cinnamon is just a black bear in a cinnamon color phase.†   (source)
  • The following morning, during the ambulatory, coffee-tropism phase of preconsciousness, I stumbled across the most damnable, frightening, item in the entire case.†   (source)
  • The one phase of my education my mother had not pressed vigorously was sex.†   (source)
  • She was a third phase.†   (source)
  • A phase she'd been in for it must be almost a year now.†   (source)
  • Went through a bad phase.†   (source)
  • This phase of his life was coming to an end, with all the others.†   (source)
  • It's just a passing phase.†   (source)
  • His somber sense of responsibility toward his Creator he carried into every phase of his daily life.†   (source)
  • Who could break a phase combination and—†   (source)
  • That phase did not last long, however.†   (source)
  • "I'm just glad to see he made it through Phase Three.†   (source)
  • So, anyway,' he checked his watch, 'phase one is about to begin.†   (source)
  • Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan.†   (source)
  • We used to think it was just a phase and that she'd eventually grow out of it, but she never had.†   (source)
  • Phase two, the Hassassin thought, striding into the darkened tunnel.†   (source)
  • On May 1,2003, President Bush announced the military phase of the war was over.†   (source)
  • So we've had to up the ante, and now it's time for Phase Two.†   (source)
  • This was when his quest for possession entered its most satisfying phase.†   (source)
  • We came down, ready for the next phase—working in the city itself.†   (source)
  • My making that decision was only one phase, because this would not be a one-doctor procedure.†   (source)
  • Princeps, the fleet is still in the last phase of construction.†   (source)
  • To be more precise, because of the behavior of the system in phase space.†   (source)
  • Sam is trying to get him to phase back to his human form.†   (source)
  • This field derives from Phase One of the suspensor-nullification effect.†   (source)
  • "Be sure to remind Heather to reread the first 'phase' of Tess," I told Mrs. Brocklebank.†   (source)
  • All of you went through different types of tests for Phase Three of the Trials.†   (source)
  • I think that this phase succeeded wonderfully?†   (source)
  • The advertisement hadn't mentioned a second phase.†   (source)
  • Now you must return to Camp Half-Blood, where you will begin planning for the next phase.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' second metaphysical phase was a total disaster.†   (source)
  • Each new phase seemed only to raise new questions: Why had Holmes taken the children?†   (source)
  • I really think you should consider my recommendations for phase two.†   (source)
  • When I started that phase, I used to receive weird looks from people.†   (source)
  • He guessed his Phase Three had been the white room—but what about the others?†   (source)
  • And then, before I knew it, First Phase started.†   (source)
  • You're on your way to first phase BUD/S.†   (source)
  • "Phase Four!" shouts Livio, the lieutenant.†   (source)
  • He could see as a Mentat that their communication was out of phase.†   (source)
  • The guy was right—they had all the incentive they needed to make it through this next phase.†   (source)
  • "We still have forty-seven minutes before I've been authorized to implement Phase Two of the Trials.†   (source)
  • Your reputation is built right here in first phase.†   (source)
  • This language-the mother tongue-is a vestige of an earlier phase of human social development.†   (source)
  • Malcolm's models are all phase-space shapes on a computer screen.†   (source)
  • "I see Mr. Nedry has spotted the next phase of our work," Wu said.†   (source)
  • "Time for Phase Five," the man with the glass eye says.†   (source)
  • That's the way it's done in first phase: the exit ritual.†   (source)
  • Make it to the safe haven within two weeks' time and you'll have completed Phase Two.†   (source)
  • Then we had Phase Two, which was making them think we were trying to kill them in the hotel.†   (source)
  • It's essentially characterized by the movement of the system within phase space," Malcolm said.†   (source)
  • It had to be another phase of the Trials, and this time he'd fight to change things—to end it all.†   (source)
  • We were covered in mud and as wet as BUD/S phase two trainees.†   (source)
  • We began in the diving phase, conducted in the water, mostly under it.†   (source)
  • Excuse me, boss, but we're moving into, like, the third phase of our plan.†   (source)
  • Those of us who did stay moved on to phase three.†   (source)
  • Two-two-six will class up in BUD/S first phase with a hundred and eleven men.†   (source)
  • And so when I rejoined for phase two, I was in Class 228.†   (source)
  • The third week of first phase brought us into a new aspect of BUD/S training, called rock portage.†   (source)
  • There would be just one final briefing from Reno before we attacked BUD/ S first phase.†   (source)
  • He gave us a slide presentation of every aspect of first phase.†   (source)
  • This is my phase, and these are my staff instructors.†   (source)
  • My daughters, both of them, went through a phase when they would say So?†   (source)
  • You have one week to phase out your other clients and put a stop to all your little schemes.†   (source)
  • I had spent most of the sentencing phase of the trial watching their faces.†   (source)
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