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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ague.

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Examples

  • This seems unconnected to any legitimate concerns regarding the street violence that has pl agued Bahrain over the past year or so, typically manifesting itself in tire burning.

    The Real Bahrain Joshua Colangelo-Bryan 2010

  • ALITO SUPPORTS UNAUTHORIZED STRIP SEARCHES: In Doe v. Groody, Alito agued that police officers had not violated constitutional rights when they strip searched a mother and her ten-year-old daughter while carrying out a search warrant that authorized only the search of a man and his home.

    The Courts 2009

  • Inouye's office agued that the senator's son "only lobbies the House."

    In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone Jason Horowitz 2010

  • If so, then it can be agued succesfully that they are simply providing security for hire, and not engaged in typical “police” function.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Preemption laws and leases of public property: 2009

  • Some have even agued that the right to procreative privacy is a reason for government or employers to pay for fertility services.

    Privacy and Medicine Allen, Anita 2009

  • In contrast, the patentee agued that the plain meaning of the term "partially" would include "totally hidden."

    Archive 2008-06-01 Peter Zura 2008

  • While DI agued like they were party to the suit, they weren't.

    Dawkins on the DI Payroll? 2006

  • I had agued with the cashier for a half an hour and got nowhere.

    SIM cards; local mobile calls; US calling cards 2006

  • In a study of the institutions of monarchy, republic and despotism, Montesquieu agued that there is equilibrium between competing forces in social reality analogous to that in Newtonian physics.

    Classical economics 2008

  • In contrast, the patentee agued that the plain meaning of the term "partially" would include "totally hidden."

    CAFC: Extrinsic Evidence OK When Patentee Chooses Inconsistent Claim Language Peter Zura 2008

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