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substantive
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  • And as the number of media grew, the material became more up to date, and the methods for searching the Library became more and more sophisticated, it approached the point where there was no substantive difference between the Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency.†  (source)
  • We did not discuss substantive issues, so much as history and South African culture.†  (source)
  • The Chairman said, "What is your substantive field?"†  (source)
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  • Meanwhile, there remain the more serious substantive matters.†  (source)
  • However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb "to eat."†  (source)
  • Am I substantively correct?†  (source)
  • Again I doubt it—but even more anarchistic dedications of verbs and adjectives to substantival use are to be found in the /Congressional Record/ every day.†  (source)
  • Treadstone was bandied about here and there; it's not that substantive.'†  (source)
  • Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are fugitives from justice.†  (source)
  • The People's Republic will never substantively touch Hong Kong!†  (source)
  • Most of the questions were substantive and academic, until she was thrown a curve.†  (source)
  • Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple—almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs.†  (source)
  • The caller was Wenzu, reporting the progress being made at Kai Tak, or more substantively, as was apparent, the lack of progress.†  (source)
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