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And yet, one returns to Jacobs not out of nostalgia but from a curiosity to see how this man of prodigious talent, now shorn of the infrastructure of self-enlargement, is faring in a time out-of-joint.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2020

And for a few ecstatic moments, theatergoers can pretend that this crazy, out-of-joint universe is their palpable, personal plaything.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019

For some time, Americans had seemed able to ignore or nimbly thrust out of mind repeated symptoms of their out-of-joint economy, like alarming new price rises and further drubbings of the greenback abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Broader objective: a revision and coordination of the whole out-of-joint U. S. economy.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the logical climax of the whole misbegotten day, this whole out-of-joint term at Devon.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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