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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of posterize.

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Examples

  • If his art is based on a digital file of the Garcia photo that he manipulated and posterized, that is a copyright violation of the sort that applies to computer code and digital typefaces.

    Frankenstory The Year in Pictures 2009

  • Proper form, however, cannot keep you from getting posterized, which is where the mental toughness kicks in.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2012

  • Anybody remember the classic Star Trek episode where Frank Gorshin played an alien who was black on one side and white on the other, and he had an “arch-enemy” who was similarly tinted, but the sides were reversed, but they were terrible enemies and would always wind up grappling with one another in some kind of posterized quantum broom closet and their fighting would threaten to tear the whole universe apart?

    Think Progress » Bush, Novak, Plame, and Wilson — in the same room. 2006

  • BTW Neither "posterized" or "posterization" are a word. ok but you're acting like you've never heard people say posterized. come on im ex-traordinary

    GameBattles News 2009

  • BTW Neither "posterized" or "posterization" are a word. ok but you're acting like you've never heard people say posterized. come on im ex-traordinary

    GameBattles News 2009

  • Keeping the CEO chair, he allows himself to be posterized as the bad banker.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Is What You Get For Cooperating with the Government 2009

  • The release of the film is also timely with Rand's resurgence of influence driven in part by Tea Party firebrands who at their rallies have posterized memorable Randenalia, such as "Atlas is Shrugging", "Who is John Galt?"

    Michael Shermer: Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't Michael Shermer 2011

  • The release of the film is also timely with Rand's resurgence of influence driven in part by Tea Party firebrands who at their rallies have posterized memorable Randenalia, such as "Atlas is Shrugging", "Who is John Galt?"

    Michael Shermer: Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't Michael Shermer 2011

  • Martin also was the most animated player on the bench, getting out of his seat when Young posterized Ersan Ilyasova and hopping up again when Hinrich sent a John Salmons shot into the front row.

    JaVale McGee, Cartier Martin help Wizards end their slide Michael Lee 2011

  • Different kinds of great movies have been posterized.

    Movie Posters | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

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