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verb
To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.
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A decision is needed on Issue A, which has knock-on effects on Issues B, C, and D, and while people can work on D, E, and F, they aren't part of the logical sequence of development; more assumptions have to be made, the cognitive load is higher, you have to mock out a bunch of things to get any non-mock code written at all.
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Hitler is portrayed as a gibbering cocaine fiend who mocks out battles on his desk using potatoes, kissing the German potatoes affectionately and so agitated at the Soviet Army that he leaves his staff members speckled with bits of peel.
In response, Mock pointed out that many students can't make it to school in time for the breakfast program as rural school districts are consolidated.
As Mock pointed out, she and hooks are close friends and have both privately and publicly debated Beyoncé's merits in the past.
Mock FLP-out Gal4-expressing clones (GFP-positive cells, green) show no reduction in Pvr expression (red, A – A′ ), whereas similar clones expressing Pvr RNAi show a very strong reduction in Pvr protein expression (B – B′ ).
("Alternative facts," another phrase associated with reality denial, seems to have been mocked out of existence).
The strip mocked out of existence the "no sleeping" law in Santa Barbara, California, crafted to exclude any homeless from its pristine precincts.
So we need the Laverne Coxes, we need the Janet Mocks out there, who are at once the women they are, but also open to acknowledging that they are indeed also trans.
In 1993, health-care reform was mocked out of court as the last gasp of overblown statism; this year, that florid old liberal Teddy Kennedy (in partnership with Orrin Hatch, the most rigid of Republicans) pushed his health-care scheme for children through Congress.
Indeed, quite a few of Blair's earlier rhetorical foibles - his excessive dependence on "actually" (another word designed to suggest that a politician is letting you in on a confidence) is another - have been retired, mocked out of his repertoire by Rory Bremner and others.
And so I'm glad that by kind of mocking the out-of-touch CEOs that have been testifying to congress, we were actually channeling the voice of the people who want to see real justice done here".
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