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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ballast .
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Examples
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Senior Project Developer Andrew Reed says brownfields have caught on for solar projects in part because of a new installation technique known as ballasted racking.
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Also, crash testing with ballasted dummies to represent obese and morbidly obese occupants may lead to refined safety systems for this growing segment of the population.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Weighing in on In-Car Traffic Injuries 2009
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The planer boards are tapered or ballasted to run at the surface.
Four Ways to Troll for Trout, Salmon, Crappies, Walleyes, and Northern Pike 2009
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Using ballasted racking allows the solar units to rest on the ground "without having to do in-depth studies, which are very expensive and the outcomes are unknown."
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There are those who knew this so strongly it ballasted their bones, such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, countless lesser-known moral leaders.
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As we in the West continue to hike the long trail toward building the kind of society we can all be proud of, lets all take a moment to put the next hill in context, ballasted by the larger ones we have already left behind.
Nathan Havey: The Ken Burns of Colorado Nathan Havey 2010
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There are those who knew this so strongly it ballasted their bones, such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, countless lesser-known moral leaders.
David Vognar: Making Real Peace with the Spirit of John F. Kennedy 2010
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As we in the West continue to hike the long trail toward building the kind of society we can all be proud of, lets all take a moment to put the next hill in context, ballasted by the larger ones we have already left behind.
Nathan Havey: The Ken Burns of Colorado Nathan Havey 2010
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Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.
So now will I have to read it? It's not like they did. Roger Sutton 2007
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First, the boats were designed to right themselves if they capsized, but only if correctly ballasted.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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"Report No. 5882.--The ship 'Midas,' lost with all hands, numbering twenty-two, on a voyage from Nagasaki to Portland, Oregon, the Court being of the opinion that she was insufficiently and improperly ballasted for the voyage." - The Parliamentary Debates (Authorised Edition), Fourth Series. Second Session of the Twenty-Seventh Session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland. I Edward VII. Volume XC. Comprising the Period of the Twenty-Eighth day of February to the Fourteenth Day of March, 1901. Second Volume of Session., p. 303, (submitted to Parliament, I believe, 4 March, 1901, based on page headings in the volume.
March 2, 2011