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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Addiction is a disease that we purposely infect upon ourselves.
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If you’re a parents certainly don’t infect upon you child what you endured.
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But as a company to work for they abuse staff and have extremely materialistic views which they infect upon staff to keep them spending and always needing to earn more money
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Therefore, with that in mind, I am going to talk with you about the bonus flick you decided to infect upon my DVD player.
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By their actions, they infect upon the domestically derived military (which is supposed to be completely representative of the pluralistic society) disharmony and division which can ultimately destroy the nation-state.
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My friend David introduced me to the game. We would spend hours in his bed room, battling it out on his custom maps. He got me my own copy for Christmas one year, which I would infect upon the rest of my family.
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Sure looks like an eggcorn to me.
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This one is a round-tripper, too. There are lots of examples of inflicted for infected, though it’s often hard to tell from a given example whether inflicted is substituted for infected or for afflicted. There’s a spectrum of examples from those that are likely the former (mainly the ones that refer to literal infectious diseases), to those that are more likely the latter.
CU Student Inflicted With Meningitis
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Bill Gates: People inflicted with HIV are living two decades longer
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Can a man be inflicted with cancer by using pressure cooker?
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The 71-year-old said there was no hope for individuals inflicted with conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa, which has compromised Wynn’s vision over the last 50 years and causes nighttime blindness and a lack of peripheral vision.
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Recent experiments funded by the ALS Association, mice had holes drilled into their skulls, were inflicted with crippling illnesses, and were forced to run on an inclined treadmill until they collapsed from exhaustion.
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Beaullieu family inflicted with ‘duck disease’
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Treating poor people inflicted with jiggers and spreading Love…
The men, women and children we serve have severely been inflicted with jiggers.
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What are 3 traits of a person inflicted with alcoholism?
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Why do i have to be inflicted with bipolar?
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A Lioness With 3 Cubs Gets Inflicted With A Deadly Wound By A Buffalo…
Read more at http://www.reshareable.tv/a-lioness-wit … AzlojED.99
Family inflicted with late-term abortion called traitors
article about forced abortion in China
McClatchy Inflicted With Deficit Mania Disease
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Inflicted with Love
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Perhaps some of you eggcornistas can suggest other substitutions in the infect/inflict/afflict realm.
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Just one little simbling, of a type we’ve encountered before, with a t ending read as -ed; can’t think of any examples at the moment though. The flick, I think, adds a helpfully tactile touch.
What low life these people are would love to see them in a ring fighting for their lives and feeling the pain inflicked.
... tittled punitive general to attack Yuan (Mongolian) army advancing along three routes beyond the Great wall, and inflicked a crushing defeat on the enemy.
It sits under my bed at night and can not been seen , it fits in my hand just right and the end are sharp so will inflicked a lot of damage to body parts so be warned , and it can be used as a tool as well I found it usefull for pulling nails
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Sorry to inflick it on you though! Don’t have nightmares friend!
we related this story to my son who was putting up with to old gits in a pub and thought I’d inflick it on my erstwhile friends on the forum.
the tories can spell austerity and inflick it on the rest of us , but they don`t suffer it or know what it means.
(There are plenty of these.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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