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- verb Present participle of
bombinate .
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Examples
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They are what is known as bombinating in a vacuum.
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As it is, the News Chronicle version of Fascism as a kind of homicidal mania peculiar to Colonel Blimps bombinating in the economic void has been established more firmly than ever.
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As it is, the News Chronicle version of Fascism as a kind of homicidal mania peculiar to Colonel Blimps bombinating in the economic void has been established more firmly than ever.
Collected Essays 1900
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Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It would be as easy and as profitable a problem to solve the Rabelaisian riddle of the bombinating chimaera with its potential or hypothetical faculty of deriving sustenance from a course of diet on second intentions, as to read the riddle of Shakespeare's design in the procreation of this yet more mysterious and magnificent monster of a play.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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He said again, 'I am tired of seeing the human mind bogged in a social plenum; I prefer to paint it in a vacuum, freely and sportively bombinating.'"
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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