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We did not meet, per se; but he was here with you in the hotel just before you left.† (source)
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Not that they are wrong, per se, but the church has always downplayed the Illuminati threat.† (source)
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And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se.† (source)
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There's nothing wrong with it per se.† (source)
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As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.† (source)
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Despite the mark-up I'd paid in repurchasing the fake from Mr. So-and-So (ideally an actor or a clothing designer who collected as a hobby, if not illustrious as a collector per se) I could then turn around and sell it again for sometimes twice what I'd bought it back for, to some Wall Street cheese fry who didn't know Chippendale from Ethan Allen but was more than thrilled with "official documents" proving that his Duncan Phyfe secretary or whatever came from the collection of Mr. So-and-So, noted philanthropist/interior decorator/leading light of Broadway/fill-in-the-blank.† (source)
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Not big per se (as Chacko-of-Oxford would no doubt have put it).† (source)
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"The rape per se didn't impact me so much," she says.† (source)
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I'm not thinking of anything fancy, and not a recording studio, per se.† (source)
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They were conquered, but there's no evidence of genocide per se.† (source)
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I'd never really been afraid of heights per se, but being able to see all the details with such clarity made the prospect less appealing.† (source)
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No one taught her to go looking for birds per se in her reading; rather, what happens is that, based on other reading experiences in a variety of courses and contexts, she learned to watch for distinctive features of a text, for repetitions of a certain kind of object or activity for resonances.† (source)
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But I truly believe that it wasn't bullying, per se, that led Peter to do what he did.'† (source)
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He doesn't feel jealous of her past per se.† (source)
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Not per se, no.† (source)
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It wasn't part of the Institute per se; it had been left deliberately unconsecrated in order that it might be used as a holding place for demons and vampires.† (source)
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