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Example sentences for: raton
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Can you imagine 'the Boca Raton intellectuals' exercising cultural clout in the national media, with profiles about them to follow in the Times ? Don't hold your breath.
What a Cliché! recalls the mixed metaphors quoted in The News [Boca Raton, June 8, 1992], attributed to a University of Florida professor of political science, Walter Rosenbaum:
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
The host institution is Florida Atlantic University, an undistinguished university in Boca Raton evidently looking for an excuse to lure name-brand talent to its campus--and who would refuse a Florida gig, especially if they make it in, say, February?
In 1998, he allegedly accepted 100,000 shares in a cigar maker and Boca Raton deli-owner; in return, he is said to have recommended the stock to his customers, without revealing his relationship to the company.