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- noun Plural form of
passer .
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Examples
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Outlandish and informal street performers entertain passers-by who drop coins in turned-up hats.
Susan Fogwell: Barcelona's Bustling La Boqueria Market Susan Fogwell 2010
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Outlandish and informal street performers entertain passers-by who drop coins in turned-up hats.
Susan Fogwell: Barcelona's Bustling La Boqueria Market Susan Fogwell 2010
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Outlandish and informal street performers entertain passers-by who drop coins in turned-up hats.
Susan Fogwell: Barcelona's Bustling La Boqueria Market Susan Fogwell 2010
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Outlandish and informal street performers entertain passers-by who drop coins in turned-up hats.
Susan Fogwell: Barcelona's Bustling La Boqueria Market Susan Fogwell 2010
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Outlandish and informal street performers entertain passers-by who drop coins in turned-up hats.
Susan Fogwell: Barcelona's Bustling La Boqueria Market Susan Fogwell 2010
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Other two-title passers were Bob Griese, Roger Staubach,
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The angle which it formed with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty creatures called the passers-by.
Les Miserables 2008
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The poet declaimed wherever people would listen to him; the story-teller unrolled his mat and called the passers-by to listen to what wonders he would unfold.
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Of some diseases, the virus is a bacillus or coccus, excessively minute fungi recognizable only under the microscope; but the bacteriologists are now beginning to speak of viruses so impalpable that they, unlike ordinary bacteria, can go through the pores of a clay filter, are filter-passers, that is are of ultra-microscopic dimensions.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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Of some diseases, the virus is a bacillus or coccus, excessively minute fungi recognizable only under the microscope; but the bacteriologists are now beginning to speak of viruses so impalpable that they, unlike ordinary bacteria, can go through the pores of a clay filter, are filter-passers, that is are of ultra-microscopic dimensions.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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