What I poke fun at, and do so for a purpose, is the over-the-top prose used by TSA (and most bureaucracies) to explain what they do and the jobs of the folks who discharge that mission.

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Somehow I instinctively poke my way back through the gray to the looping exit, and limp into the Holiday Inn parking lot.

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"I saw him poke check there and luckily I was able to go around him, " Santorelli said.

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Being naturally inquisitive and entrepreneurial, I began to poke and prod into what digital advertising could do.

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This system is so delightful to use that I want to poke around just to see what's going on.

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But, if I had to extrapolate from the current data, I would say that Poke is a bomb and that its only succes is in making Snapchat even more popular!

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My Twitter feed was instantly filled with Canadians incensed that I had the audacity to poke fun at their beloved country.

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"I decided one day to put three of them together to see if I could make them all work and hopefully not poke my sister's eye out, " he said.

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I'm not going to buy a pig in a poke.

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As I always say to my mentees: Talk, ask questions, poke, prod, open your mouth.

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