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  1. v. simple past tense and past participle of ire.

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  • “Worse, when they are flanking Harry Redknapp, it looks like poor old 'arry' as 'ired some bodyguards to make himself look important, quite possibly from 1-800-GUARD4U.”

    The Guardian: Don't take fashion tips from Alan Shearer

  • “But there will be many people across the cricket-playing world relieved that Ricky Ponting's Australia team have come back to square to the series: It's the sort of resilience requ ired by the game as a whole.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Winning the Popularity Test

  • “When given the opportunity to live up to his own words by serving a sentence for drug abuse, he ired more lawyers.”

    Breaking: White House Faults Rush Limbaugh Over "Phony Soldiers" Comment

  • “Okay, sometimes satire can be obtuse, but obviously the Sat-ired among us aren't keeping up with the news or they'd know their chains are being yanked.”

    Moron Warning

  • “It can be noted that the Lem affair came about because although Lem said he wanted to raise the literary level of these Yankee sci-fi writers, he appears to have made no effort to actually write or otherwise communicate with SFWA until the (possibly hyped) article expressing disdain which so ired the members of SFWA.”

    » Lem: Like Shalespeare to Heinlein? heinleinblog

  • “And then, on the other hand, when the opposing attorneys would say something that sort of ired her for some point, she sort of spurred up a little bit, because she really wants people to know that, you know, she really did love her daughter.”

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007

  • “A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project concludes that [w] ired Americans hear more points of view about candidates and key issues than other citizens.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » October

  • “Neighbours coming to his aid were ired on and had to withdraw.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “Unfortunately, it trans p ired that this had become a popular prison pastime since Ernest Saunders's infamously temporary debilitation, and Lime's own attempt fell far short of convincing anybody.”

    Boiling a Frog

  • “What do you suppose all those damn birds are so exe ired about?”

    Tek Money

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