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  • noun Plural form of giving.

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Examples

  • But it's an important one, partly because the charitable givings of the rich help soften their image and convince the public that the rise of a new ultra-wealthy super class may actually be a good thing, since we badly need them to fund our universities and other public institutions.

    Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires Linda McQuaig 2010

  • But it's an important one, partly because the charitable givings of the rich help soften their image and convince the public that the rise of a new ultra-wealthy super class may actually be a good thing, since we badly need them to fund our universities and other public institutions.

    Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires Linda McQuaig 2010

  • But it's an important one, partly because the charitable givings of the rich help soften their image and convince the public that the rise of a new ultra-wealthy super class may actually be a good thing, since we badly need them to fund our universities and other public institutions.

    Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires Linda McQuaig 2010

  • But it's an important one, partly because the charitable givings of the rich help soften their image and convince the public that the rise of a new ultra-wealthy super class may actually be a good thing, since we badly need them to fund our universities and other public institutions.

    Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires Linda McQuaig 2010

  • Especially if the cost would exceed what could reasonably be generated through charitable givings?

    Climate Change, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But it's an important one, partly because the charitable givings of the rich help soften their image and convince the public that the rise of a new ultra-wealthy super class may actually be a good thing, since we badly need them to fund our universities and other public institutions.

    Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires Linda McQuaig 2010

  • It's my understanding Obama is not going to take from the contributions us smaller donors have donated to his campaign, but will ask his larger financiers that have maxed out in their givings to him to aide Hillary.

    Report: Clinton able to continue run by postponing debt repayment 2008

  • Here in Botswana at the end of the year the schools have prize givings where bright kids are given prizes.

    And the Winner is... Lauri 2010

  • I am givings away a book on my blog if you care to stop by.

    Twilight (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • I mean a sense of life as a web of interactions, mutual givings and receivings, that make up the world we inhabit.

    Act local as well as national urges Archbishop 2009

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