Meanwhile, Manchester United had a nearly robotically perfect linear rise in their residual throughout the season.

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But Mr Serra countered by accusing Ms Rousseff of electioneering and robotically obeying her strategists.

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Stored at a dry -20C and robotically-selected, it has the capacity to store 90 million chemical compounds.

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Because any time the slightest whiff of boredom sets in, the kids start robotically groping for it.

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Reportedly, for the first two days, Mohammed robotically recited Koranic verses and refused to divulge much more than his name.

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James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.

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Melanie Amaro's thumpin' dance version of Adele's "Someone Like You" (help, I'm dying inside) featured the "American Horror Story" crossover none of us ever expected: Dozens of black-suited Rubber Men dancing robotically around her as she angrily belted out sad and pensive lyrics for...oh, I don't know, maybe 45 seconds?

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