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(adjective) true genuine

Highlighted phrases

echt



Heidi’s idea of the echt Latina seemed to be Natalie Wood in West Side Story

—p.27 by Thomas Pynchon
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Brigid didn’t shave her armpits, a beautiful negligence in my opinion, and echt Germanic

—p.105 by Benjamin Kunkel
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3 years, 1 month ago


I knew someone who was an echt mama’s boy in real life who took insane risks smuggling wristwatches into Zimbabwe on weekends.

—p.5 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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1 year ago


A barrage of claps, and a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me

—p.104 Improvisation Is the Heart of Music (103) by Helen DeWitt
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3 years, 1 month ago


There was no echt Sadie in this view, he decided. She looked indistinguishable from any number of smart, well-maintained college girls in the train station.

—p.10 SICK KIDS (1) by Gabrielle Zevin
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2 years, 1 month ago


all faithfully chronicled in GOOD, the echt-millennial, nonprofit-loving magazine of the larger, for-profit Good Worldwide Inc

—p.3 Meh!-lennials (1) by n+1
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he gives an echt-Dana quote

—p.126 Don't Be Scared Homie (111) missing author
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5 years, 11 months ago


Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate

—p.3 In the Maze (1) by Dayna Tortorici
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7 years, 9 months ago


a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B-movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me

—p.97 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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