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  2. Unwind (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words. Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin; Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters; Irony; Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with ...

  4. Unwound (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Cite this page; ... Unwound may also refer to: "Unwound" (song), a 1981 song by George ...

  5. Mortal coil - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, the meaning might be: 'when we have unwound and worked off this coil of mortality.' In this way, the length of our life is metaphorically the length of thread that is coiled on a spool, a metaphor related to the ancient Greek mythological figures of the Fates. As humans live, the thread is unwound from the coil by the shuttle of ...

  6. Unwound - Wikipedia

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    Unwound was largely associated with the independent record label Kill Rock Stars throughout the 1990s, with the band's debut album, Fake Train (1993), being the first non-spoken word release from the label. Unwound's wider stature grew with the release of the band's fifth and sixth studio albums Repetition (1996) and Challenge for a Civilized ...

  7. Unwound (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Unwound" is a song written by Dean Dillon and Frank Dycus, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in April 1981 as his major label debut single and served as the lead single from his debut album Strait Country .

  8. Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International ...

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    some English phoneticians and phonologists use acute and grave accents as primary and secondary stress symbols. Some linguists [21] use the circumflex as weakened primary stress in compound words and the breve as no stress. these symbols are also written on the English spellings not just other IPA symbols. ̩, ̍: Vertical line below or above ...

  9. Kid Is Gone - Wikipedia

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    Kid Is Gone is a 3 LP box set compilation of early recordings by the band Unwound. It documents demos, singles, live recordings, and the material that made up their first-recorded (but fourth-released) album Unwound (1995). It was released September 17, 2013 by The Numero Group as part 1 of a 4-part reissue series. [4] [5]