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Word: fillets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Usage:

...like to say we hate lawyers, that they pickle and fillet and jelly common sense until we're all flummoxed. For a while now, and particularly in the past few weeks, it has become fashionable to say that politics has been lawyered to death, that we face the cheerless prospect of election-by-lawsuit forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: May It Please The Court | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...edge over Congress, even coached the President on exploiting the media. "Gore was the only one in the White House who saw all the way through to the endgame and got everything right," says a former Clinton aide. "Side with the Republicans, even if the Democrats feel betrayed. Then fillet the Republicans and save the Democrats." Complains a Democrat close to the campaign: "He needs to talk about this stuff. You can't just say you're a fighter. You have to say you're a fighter and a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Lover vs. The Fighter | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...edge over Congress, even coached the President on exploiting the media. "Gore was the only one in the White House who saw all the way through to the endgame and got everything right," says a former Clinton aide. "Side with the Republicans, even if the Democrats feel betrayed. Then fillet the Republicans and save the Democrats." Complains a Democrat close to the campaign: "He needs to talk about this stuff. You can't just say you're a fighter. You have to say you're a fighter and a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lover vs. the Fighter | 10/21/2000 | See Source »

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