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Example sentences for: qua

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Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.
Here I'm thinking of Mark Lindquist in the Times Book Review ("while Ethan Coen [qua screenwriter] isn't quite as stylish with language as his brother is with a camera, he does have a distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview") or Renee Graham in the Boston Globe ("As with his films, his failures are often almost as interesting as other writers' successes."
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Because real organisms face changing parameter values constantly—whether as a result of unstable environmental conditions, or mutations leading to the inactivation of a single allele of a gene—robustness is an extremely valuable feature of biological networks, so much so that some have elevated it to a sort of sine qua non (Morohashi et al.
In his Iberia (Random House, 1968), James A. Michener said duende “now dominates Spanish conversation” and “seems to have become the sine qua non of Spanish existence,” whereas in previous visits to Spain he had not heard it at all.