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  • noun Plural form of digest.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of digest.

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Examples

  • The thing that seems to be central to all the problems one reads about in the discipline digests is judgment.

    A Rose By Any Other Name?: Law Schools, Legal Education, and Professionalism : Law is Cool 2009

  • He also said this: A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

    Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’ 2010

  • Some are offering online weblog 'digests' which supplement the traditional printed journal, while others are solely online.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009

  • Some are offering online weblog 'digests' which supplement the traditional printed journal, while others are solely online.

    Georgetown Law Library Symposium on Blogs as Legal Scholarship Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009

  • Some are offering online weblog 'digests' which supplement the traditional printed journal, while others are solely online.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008

  • All kinds of people have "Links I Liked" kind of digests of posts they didn't have time to write about in more detail.

    Figleaf's Real Adult Sex 2008

  • -- In addition, the community has posted more than a dozen "digests" detailing business modeling best practices, covering topics such as how to get started, how business modeling compares to entity-relationship diagrams, data quality, how to draw a model, and more. discussions where members pose questions and provide answers to colleagues on topics ranging from very basic discussions on BI and business modeling to detailed and high-technical exchanges about building specific models.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2008

  • With regard to the charge made by Mr. De Quincey, of Coleridge's so borrowing the property of other writers as to be guilty of 'petty larceny'; with equal justice might we accuse the bee which flies from flower to flower in quest of food, and which, by means of the instinct bestowed upon it by the all-wise Creator, extracts its nourishment from the field and the garden, but 'digests' and 'elaborates' it by its own

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • Writers are a cottage industry, but nowadays it takes a village of cottage industries to continue a career, including not only family if you have it, and loyal readers, but other writers who share experiences and skills and sources and information on digests like Bryant.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expanding Your Business 2010

  • The group said that the next two years would be a transitional period during which it would slim down as it digests a 2011 full-year operating loss of between €1.4 billion and €1.6 billion.

    Areva Sees Huge Write-Down Max Colchester 2011

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