The data affirms what even arm chair researchers and self-proclaimed experts know: social media is proliferating among adults.

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For me that means arm-chair game design, all ideas and no results.

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And there are intriguing offerings such as the Sound Chair: I sat back in what felt like a dentist's recliner and put on earphones attached to an iPod on the arm of the chair.

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My mother leaned against the arm of a vinyl reclining chair and said she was thirsty, so I went to the nurses' station to fetch her some water.

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Bob leans in toward her, sliding his arm along the back of her chair.

NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

And then he drove up to my destination and he threw his arm over the back of the chair and he looked at me directly in my eyes and he pleaded with me, he said, please don't let this happen to America.

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He was resting his head on one hand and the corresponding elbow on the arm of a floral-patterned lounge chair.

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The man is wearing a woollen scarf around his neck and has one arm resting on the back of his chair.

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Arianda was practicing her pratfalls, suddenly throwing herself onto the floor and testing how her arm looked when raised in various gestures from behind the chair.

NEWYORKER: The Natural

The second objection, according to the board's chair, is the effect changing its status would have upon its current ability to make arm's-length decisions from the assembly government.

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