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• Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides.
• Now Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is tapping into that vast market with an aggressive advertising campaign for Abilify (aripiprazole), its blockbuster antipsychotic medication. AdWatch: Abilify finds lucrative new audience
• Still in the end around 16,000 fans went home fed up after a damp squib of a derby that was supposed to be full of fireworks. The Sun
• As for the" squibs "conspiracy theorists claim to see in videos of the WTC collapse, these are plumes of smoke and debris ejected from the building due to the immense pressure associated with millions of tons of falling towers (see Figure 1). Debating "Skeptic Magazine" on September 11th Issues
• The striking features of Negro evening dress consisted in astonishing turbans with marabou feathers, into which add accessories of squib shape and other forms were inserted. A Renegade History of the United States
• The latest mobile phones promise the world at your fingertips, but Stewart Mitchell finds that zappy new services are proving a damp squib
• Here's a squib from the publisher's page about the book. Books
• Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings. Samuel Johnson
• On the first of October all was ready for this audacious squibbing of the hornet's nest, and the fleet of investment (which kept its distance according to the weather and the tides) stood in, not bodily so as to arouse excitement, but a ship at a time sidling in towards the coast, and traversing one another's track, as if they were simply exchanging stations. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
• It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money. Times, Sunday Times