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  • verb Present participle of to attach.

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Examples

  • If it wasn't for the car we drive, the title attaching itself to our name on the business card, the amount of money we make, things we store in our idol garage, or the people we hang out with inside of our lifeboat, we men might not have an identity to speak of.

    Crosswalk.com - Home Eric Hogue 2008

  • But, as has been said, the Privy Councillorship was an office, not a title, although with a title attaching to the office; and in theory, at least, a scientific Privy Councillor might some day play an important part as an accredited representative of science, to be consulted officially by the Government, should occasion arise.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • But, as has been said, the Privy Councillorship was an office, not a title, although with a title attaching to the office; and in theory, at least, a scientific Privy Councillor might some day play an important part as an accredited representative of science, to be consulted officially by the Government, should occasion arise.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • It is up to Congress to begin attaching conditions to our aid to Israel.

    Think Progress » Netanyahu Adviser Ya’alon: ‘I Do Not Accept’ Any Withdrawal From Settlements 2010

  • Do all the taping and attaching from the inside so that it will not show on the finished product.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • On this table were five lasts, and there was barely room for the men to stand to their work, for the rest of the space was heaped with cardboard, leather, bundles of shoe uppers, and a miscellaneous assortment of materials used in attaching the uppers of shoes to their soles.

    FRYING-PAN ALLEY AND A GLIMPSE OF INFERNO 2010

  • Do all the taping and attaching from the inside so that it will not show on the finished product.

    Brown Paper Bag Bonnet 2009

  • But in attaching "punk" you are telling the world that these folks prefer obscurity, they don't like the limelight.

    Getting back up to steam (hold the 'punk') wendigomountain 2009

  • I regret not directly challenging him to address the failings of PEPFAR, in attaching ideology to funding.

    World AIDS Day: A PEPFAR for the United States, without The Pledge? « Bound, Not Gagged 2008

  • Of course, this all depends on what exactly we want to measure, but if we are just interested in attaching numbers to what we already know, then the Y-factor puts the other systems to shame.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Nick Anthis 2006

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