For example, The Now Network doesn't lift a proverbial finger when a phone is ordered -- UPS takes care of plucking the right handset from its inventory and shipping it off to a customer.
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Since the Arctic as a whole is responding to climate change earlier and more acutely than the rest of the planet, we should think of it as an early warning system -- a proverbial canary in a coalmine.
However, like a the proverbial canary in a the coal mine, advertising stocks start to plunge a full quarter before a recession.
Weapons are relatively cheap to unlock with gold but cost a proverbial arm and leg to unlock vis-a-vis experience points.
But this deal was indeed a proverbial game-changer in the realm of American animation.
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Yes, in the sense that you have drawn a proverbial line in the proverbial sand.
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Usually, he says, finding cheap growers is like the proverbial quest of a needle in a haystack.
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In that sense, the FLS is an example of the proverbial pushing on a string, in an economy.
All of this suggests that the flu will become a proverbial shot in the arm for vaccine makers.
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For the first time in decades, the U.S. is in uncharted waters in the proverbial boat without a paddle.
The atomic red pseudo-fruit at the bottom of that glass was both the literal and proverbial opposite of a cherry on top.
Not all slices are created equal the ends rarely get any filling, while the center cut is a proverbial jackpot of yum.
No other social network, filled with pictures of babies and cats and drunken parties, could hold a proverbial flame to it.
The second half belonged to London Welsh but we were very stubborn defensively, not allowing them a proverbial sniff of our line.
In other words, this is the proverbial tip of a huge iceberg.
But you'd hardly know that, watching members of the Senate Armed Services Committee trip over each other to offer Gates a proverbial group hug.
However, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two earned a disappointing 59% on aggregate site Metacritic, which to many publishers is a proverbial nail in the coffin.
It may not be long before some proverbial teenager in a garage invents the next killer application, and gives the industry back at least some of its legendary buzz.
Assembling HEX has cost the proverbial arm and a leg -- "tens of thousands of dollars, " says Haygood -- and is controlled remotely using a Zigbee USB dongle attached to his laptop.
About 100 interagency emails released last Wednesday, the tip of a proverbial iceberg, show that there was extensive back-and-forth debate between the State Department and CIA regarding those revisions, with State playing the dominant role.
To address the big data issue, governments must continue to develop and enhance their complex analytical targeting systems to scour the data for the proverbial needle in a haystack that would flag a suspicious shipment.
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With projected federal spending topping 34 percent of GDP and the known politically acceptable levels of federal tax revenues falling below 20 percent of GDP, we are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
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In manufacturing, there is not always a universal naming and numbering system and so part sourcing on the web can often be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. 3D search transforms this experience.
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Prior to taking office Obama tooled around Chicago behind the wheel of an urban-cool Chrysler 300C sedan, which he proceeded to trade in upon throwing his hat into the proverbial ring for a for a more fuel-efficient and politically expeditious Ford Escape Hybrid SUV.
"My conflict with this grape is that it has been written and spoken about for way too long as a grape that helps to define the South African category, almost to the point of rendering the category a proverbial 'one-trick pony, ' " he wrote in an email, comparing it to Mendoza Malbec from Argentina and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand.
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Magee also recommends the proverbial water cooler as a productive place to gather gossip and scuttlebutt.
For enlightenment, we turn to the journalist's proverbial first source, a taxi driver.
Lower rates could incentivize some prospective buyers who have been sitting on the proverbial fence to buy a home.
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