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    Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).†  (source)
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    See, e.g., letter to Milfort 5/17/65, p. 3.†  (source)
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    I will concentrate on my positive and not my negative, e.g., I will think less about my nose and more about my quite attractive teeth.†  (source)
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    As the wizard hobbled and pranced sideways out of the way, the Weasley party moved forward a few steps and Harry read the floor guide: ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS...Ground floor Cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc. CREATURE-INDUCED INJURIES...First floor Bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc. MAGICAL BUGS...Second floor Contagious maladies, e.g. dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrojungulus, etc. POTION AND PLANT POISONING...Third floor Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable 2, etc. SPELL DAMAGE...Fourth floor Unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms, etc. VISITORS' TEAROOM / HOSPITAL SHOP...Fifth floor IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHERE TO GO, INCAPABLE OF NORMAL SPEECH OR UN†  (source)
    editor's notes: This is the abbreviation for the Latin term exempli gratia.
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    Hence the bell curve: The majority of people fall somewhere close to the vertical dividing line with the occasional statistical outlier (e.g., me) representing a tiny percentage of overall individuals.†  (source)
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    They included: "Institute increased security procedures (e.g. identification checks) at evacuation centers and shelters"; "Advise the first responder community, telecommunications personnel, and power restoration personnel to increase identification procedures to prevent imposters from gaining unauthorized access to targets"; and "Increase patrols and vigilance of staff at key transportation and evacuation points (for instance, bridges and tunnels), including watching for unattended vehicles at these locations."†  (source)
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    Don't waste the class's time, E.G. You Haven't Studied Your Lesson.†  (source)
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    But she smoked cigarettes and she said lots of things I didn't understand, e.g., "I'm going to hit the hay," and "It's brass monkeys out there," and "Let's rustle up some tucker."†  (source)
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    As a young adult writer, I hear often of the negative portrayals of parents in my genre, but I am convinced that YA has nothing on fairy tales for evil parents (see, e.g., Hansel and Gretel, Snow White).†  (source)
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    Except for the useful abbreviations I.E., E.G., and ETC., there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in English.†  (source)
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    Indeed, in the minds of its frequenters they existed as unalterable formulae: e.g.— Rap with the bottom of your pint for more liquor.†  (source)
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    In other words, "effects of rearing variation (e.g., parents lighting up or not, or having cigarettes in the home or not) were essentially nil by the time the children reached adulthood," the psychologist David Rowe writes in his 1994 book summarizing research on the question.†  (source)
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    to this day, three important questions remain surrounding the period 1918-1920: (1) ellen's mental state; (2) the "activity" of the house (e.g., there are reports of nearly a dozen disappearances in this twenty-four-month period); and (3) john's growing fear of his wife; his wife's maid, sukeena; and the house that together the rimbauers continued to build, and remodel, at an alarming pace.†  (source)
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