Customers requested that desirable signatures be found, or, more fancifully, the addition of horses and hot air balloons.

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Together with his Siberian Mouse and Egyptian Lizard, the fancifully-named insect was a life-size automaton with perfectly realistic movement.

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This fancifully futuristic record player is the brainchild of designer Tim de Paravicini.

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Some speculate, more fancifully, that the New York Stock Exchange is interested too.

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The presidential administration has become fantastically wealthy (its former chief housekeeper, Pavel Borodin, earlier this year valued its assets, shamelessly if fancifully, in the hundreds of billions of dollars).

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The appointment of a former German chancellor, immediately after leaving office, to the lucrative chairmanship of a Russian-German energy firm would have seemed fancifully scandalous until recently, when it happened.

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Less fancifully, the Human Microbiome Project is in the stage the human genome project was a decade ago, when all that was really available was a single reference genome built from the DNA of anonymous volunteers.

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