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One of the perks of the job, Goucher told me, was getting a vicarious thrill of being close to the action of elite-level competition.

Acknowledging vicarious trauma and weathering in refugees and migrants from instability itself is important.

You may think I'm offering myself as a sort of vicarious atonement—if your Doris fails you—but I'm not, really.

THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

This always occasioned a double execution, for the wrath or revenge of Louis was never satisfied with a vicarious punishment.

QUENTIN DURWARDSIR WALTER SCOTT

Here are three measures of subjugation, all flowing from the same fountain of Principle—vicarious government by a feudal superior.

To-day he was in the state of mind when even vicarious good 202 deeds are a support and a consolation.

The scandalmonger, inhibited from doing the forbidden thing, enjoys himself by a vicarious indulgence in rottenness.

Datura looked to Aaron like a city from the Bible, giving it a certain vicarious familiarity.

Punch distrusted Socialism because, in his view, it led in practice to vicarious generosity.

The dishes were vicarious, a substitute for that greater destiny out of which Hannah had been cheated by fate.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985