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This may seem odd but mostly harmless for the public, until you realize the polygraph is an important tool among the NSA's much-vaunted anti-abuse safeguards [1].

When it comes to surprising health claims, even the much-vaunted 60 Minutes needs to be viewed with a critical eye.

Evidence that many more dodgy results are published than are subsequently corrected or withdrawn calls that much-vaunted capacity for self-correction into question.

Having detailed logs of user growth is invaluable (the much-vaunted hockey stick), however this level of granularity is unavailable in the physical world.

The much-vaunted principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, of course.

I don't even care for cars -- I just love their much-vaunted management style.

- The much-vaunted feature recognition is impressive, better than any other system, but for me did not achieve creepy levels of intuition.

I possess the things they think are necessary for their livelihood (the much-vaunted 'means of production'), laundered through this thing we call an 'economy', and my ownership of those things is protected with force of law and custom.

Modern scholarship on Nazi Germany, for instance, has found that despite its much-vaunted efficiency it was actually a morass of feuding power centers all fighting each other to get Hitler's ear, which resulted in massive inefficiencies that in the end contributed materially to their loss in World War II.

That's their much-vaunted "Cathedral", and it's a popular narrative with fringe movements all over the world.

Google Docs doesn't have the much-vaunted "stream." Going to docs.google.com simply brings up, well, docs.

She preferred talking about his much-vaunted “Chilean economic miracle.” And kill he did.

The problem is that it has a "trivial additive constant" which will make it take longer than the lifetimes of many stars to achieve its much-vaunted "optimal" asymptotic performance.