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What does Gadarene mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Gadara (near modern-day Umm Qais, in Jordan).
  2. Headlong, as of a flight or rush (with reference to the swine of Matthew VIII:28-32.).
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Today's bosses are driving programmes relentlessly downmarket, pitching their efforts into a Gadarene rush for ratings.
As we report today, and as we have consistently argued throughout this Gadarene rush towards war, there has to be a justification for any attack.
A gadarene rush to convert from paper to specie in early 1720, led by Law's erstwhile cronies among the court aristocracy, underlined the point.
It must have needed a whole herd of the gadarene swine to make up his outfit.
I imagine that Gadarene parents used the demoniac to scare their children into obedience like we do the boogeyman.
Television is a key influence on social culture, yet what it provides is increasingly dominated by the Gadarene rush to grab viewers.

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