Spinster for spin doctor is the same kind of coinage, and it's not, in fact, utterly new; sprinklings of the usage have appeared in print since at least 1995.
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A Christmas Celebration " by W . Nikola-Lisa ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $ 16 ) Sprinklings of poetic phrases gleam like stars in the paintings by Synthia Saint James.
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A reggae-tinged track, " All Night " features " sprinklings " of horns and strings in its instrumentation, while sampling the brass line from Outkast's song " SpottieOttieDopaliscious ".
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Very simply stated, a wonderful method is to chop yesterday's meal into smaller pieces, add sprinklings of whatever else you have in the cupboard, and make a pizza out of it.
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The paintings of the years after 1950 are in many ways like beautifully made proto-Pop billboards, full of sharp color contrasts, off-kilter shapes and sprinklings of snappy words and visual wisecracks.
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During the mid-1990s and onward, Dion's albums were generally constructed on the basis of melodramatic soft rock ballads, with sprinklings of up-tempo pop and rare forays into other genres.
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And beneath the branches of the scorched pitch pines, whose cones had opened according to plan, were sprinklings of two-inch emerald-green pine seedlings, growing as thickly as 30 to 100 per tree.
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Layer the polenta in a shallow pan, about 2 or so layers of polenta deep, with sprinklings of the garlic, wine, sliced cheese, cream, salt, pepper and Parmesan or other grating cheese.
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Investigators have said they want to recover as much of the wreckage as possible, but have consistently focused on the first sprinklings of debris as most likely to hold clues to what brought the airplane down on July 17.
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My trash is populated by private detectives, spies, cops, a sultry blonde here and there, romantic subplots, moderate body counts and generous sprinklings of sex, although graphic descriptions of the same are not necessary or even preferred.
