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    Intuition (category All articles that may have off-topic sections)
    Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. Different fields use the word "intuition"...
    38 KB (4,114 words) - 20:09, 26 June 2024
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    forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future (see...
    36 KB (5,491 words) - 09:27, 24 May 2024
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    non-recourse loans: if the funds recouped from sale of the mortgaged property are insufficient to cover the outstanding debt, the lender may not have recourse...
    55 KB (7,253 words) - 18:27, 26 June 2024
  • customarily said especially before one goes to bed at night. It is generally supposed that individuals might have recourse to an Act of Contrition when they find...
    16 KB (1,976 words) - 06:15, 4 June 2024
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    some characteristics and oversimplification of others. Slapstick is the recourse to humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries...
    17 KB (1,702 words) - 14:33, 19 May 2024
  • legal recourse taken in cases of joke theft. Some comics, however, have chosen to exact their own justice. W. C. Fields reportedly paid fifty dollars to have...
    27 KB (2,953 words) - 06:18, 27 September 2023
  • easily have saved myself a great deal of labor by having recourse to invented terms; in no case have I done so. Thus in many instances, I have been forced...
    23 KB (2,573 words) - 07:04, 12 June 2024
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    Gaius Gracchus in 121 BC to suppress a violent protest against repeal of a colonisation law and accepted thereafter, recourse to the decree accelerated...
    37 KB (4,596 words) - 19:20, 22 March 2024
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    before an appeal to arms, the signatory Powers agree to have recourse, as far as circumstances allow, to the good offices or mediation of one or more friendly...
    34 KB (2,691 words) - 00:09, 22 April 2024
  • Bulbbul (category Indian direct-to-video films)
    the binary between being a devi or a chudail is the only recourse that feminine power has to navigate in this patriarchal setup." Rohan Naahar of Hindustan...
    19 KB (2,060 words) - 19:46, 15 June 2024
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    35mm film source, to use the entire 16:9 frame. Elizabeth Magnotta and Alexandra Strohl analyze the success of Seinfeld with recourse to the incongruity...
    131 KB (12,922 words) - 20:18, 1 July 2024
  • ˈkɔːrpəs/ ; from Medieval Latin, lit. 'that you have the body') is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention...
    75 KB (9,436 words) - 10:30, 22 June 2024
  • Gender Trouble (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    Butler notes that feminists have frequently made recourse to the supposed pre-patriarchal state of culture as a model upon which to base a new, non-oppressive...
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  • were "like asses gone astray. They have no religious bonds with God, nor do they have recourse to reason". I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant...
    22 KB (2,668 words) - 11:33, 24 May 2024
  • Autonomous robot (category Articles to be expanded from July 2008)
    An autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human control. Historic examples include space probes. Modern examples include self-driving...
    38 KB (4,070 words) - 22:46, 8 June 2024
  • has failed to act as legally required or has taken a legally prohibited action. They cannot be issued to compel an authority to do something against the...
    16 KB (2,200 words) - 13:15, 23 June 2024
  • meantime, Eddie turns to Alfieri, hoping for help from the law. However, Alfieri tells him that the only recourse he has is to report Rodolpho and Marco...
    35 KB (2,943 words) - 09:48, 30 June 2024
  • seek legal recourse against any media adaptation of the murder case. Gupta later responded to this by stating that the film was intended to be a complete...
    14 KB (1,593 words) - 12:46, 11 June 2024
  • Phoneme (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    or distinctive at a systemic level. Phonologists have sometimes had recourse to "near minimal pairs" to show that speakers of the language perceive two...
    47 KB (5,893 words) - 03:43, 28 June 2024
  • to the British historian of Western esotericism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, occultist groups typically seek "proofs and demonstrations by recourse to scientific...
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