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short measure

noun as in lick and a promise

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Finally, 57 minutes of music is pretty short measure for a full-priced CD.

When we talked over coffee last Thursday morning, we moved from the merits of dumbphones to intense, existential topics in short measure.

Ruhlman is the author of many books, including “Ruhlman’s How to Roast” and the recent collection of novellas “In Short Measure.”

Americans can only hope it will come down south to dislodge Hot Pockets from the freezer aisle in short measure.

At some 46 minutes, Mozart’s Requiem in the conventional completion by his amanuensis Franz Xaver Süssmayr might seem short measure for one CD, let alone two.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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