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n. - A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.

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  • A well-armed militia dying en masse from the standoff is, in my view, is a tragedy.
  • Human behavior en masse is subject to the same mathematical analyses that govern other non-linear systems.
  • (It was really tough to prove that male felons voted in masse for a female prosecutor, because that did not happen.)
  • Image: a phonecam snapshot I took of Dale Chihuly's glass bloboforms hanging en masse from the ceiling at the Bellagio.
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