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  • noun Plural form of pule.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pule.

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Examples

  • The results by Paland and Lynch suggest that asexual populations of the water flea Daphnia pules accumulate deleterious mutations.

    Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006

  • When her concentration on remaining silent wandered, she could hear little pules escape her throat.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines.

    IV. Essays. Self-Reliance. 1841 1909

  • Rich baggage-trains were the game he was used to hunt; and our solitary "company-wagon," filled with frying-pans, camp-kettles, sick soldiers, and tattered blankets -- half alive with those charming little insects of the genera _pules_ and

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines.

    Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.

    Essays: First Series (1841) 1841

  • Gargantua mewls, and pules [sic], and slabbers his nurse, and demeans himself most like a royal infant! what provinces he devours! what seas he drinks up!

    Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804

  • Si bayi umur 1½ tahun pules tidur sejak angka 2 sampai Espoon Keskus: - D

    Planet Ubuntu Indonesia 2009

  • The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.

    SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH 2009

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