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proverbial

[pruh-vur-bee-uhl] / prəˈvɜr bi əl /


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It became known as The Proverbial Experience, which Briggs describes as an “African-centered, womanist series of spiritual gatherings to nourish the soul.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024

When I asked what “naturally integrated information” might look like, he told me about the project of a classmate, John Kestner, called “The Proverbial Wallet.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2017

At the MIT Media Lab’s Information Ecology Group, where they met and started collaborating, Kestner created the Proverbial Wallets, which connect up to banking information and respond in the physical world.

From Forbes • Dec. 2, 2011

Tupper's shrewd self-advertising carried Proverbial Philosophy through 50 editions between 1838 and its last printing in 1880.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Proverbial Philosophy, in fact, appears to us one of the most curious impositions we have ever met with.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. by Various




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