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Examples

  • And so everybody heard their plaint and all listened to their plause.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • You stand there and tell a aant woman her husband has given you a plause - and you expect sympathy?

    two women Cole, Martina 1999

  • She is exhibit A. Barbara Boxer is exhibit A. (A.plause.)

    Remarks By President At Boxer Dinner Fundraiser ITY National Archives 1997

  • All my life I sought a pat on the back, the approval of ap - plause.

    Climbing the Mountain Kirk, Douglas 1997

  • The ap - plause for Opiode turned to awed whispers.

    The Moment Of The Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The ap - plause for Opiode turned to awed whispers.

    The Moment of the Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The ap - plause for Opiode turned to awed whispers.

    The Moment of the Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The ap - plause for Opiode turned to awed whispers.

    The Moment Of The Magician Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • "A new audience!" and Wuu returned to the display chamber to acknowledge the humans 'peculiar form of ap-plause.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • The boys are playing well and please stop being so judgemental we deserve all the rounds of plause as well as the team the Proteas is playing.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

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