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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reciprocate.

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Examples

  • In another column, Salvador Dalí sends Harpo Marx a harp with barbed-wire strings, and Harpo reciprocates with a photo of himself plucking away with 10 bandaged fingers.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • I escalate HARD on her and she reciprocates, oh my God.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • In subtle allusion and metaphor -- invoking the natural world's usual flowers, birds, and rivers the Rhine, but mixed here with specific locations and artifacts like the Cologne Cathedral, the bridge at Mainz, and even a huge wine cask in Heidelberg -- Heine tells of a poet's love of a woman who initially reciprocates, but, deciding to marry another, induces the rejected poet to find a way to bury his sorrows.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • In another column, Salvador Dalí sends Harpo Marx a harp with barbed-wire strings, and Harpo reciprocates with a photo of himself plucking away with 10 bandaged fingers.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • In subtle allusion and metaphor -- invoking the natural world's usual flowers, birds, and rivers the Rhine, but mixed here with specific locations and artifacts like the Cologne Cathedral, the bridge at Mainz, and even a huge wine cask in Heidelberg -- Heine tells of a poet's love of a woman who initially reciprocates, but, deciding to marry another, induces the rejected poet to find a way to bury his sorrows.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • In subtle allusion and metaphor -- invoking the natural world's usual flowers, birds, and rivers the Rhine, but mixed here with specific locations and artifacts like the Cologne Cathedral, the bridge at Mainz, and even a huge wine cask in Heidelberg -- Heine tells of a poet's love of a woman who initially reciprocates, but, deciding to marry another, induces the rejected poet to find a way to bury his sorrows.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • But if there is no pick-up on the other end --- for example, your friend never initiates or reciprocates after you reached out three or so times --- it makes sense to check in more directly to find out what's going on.

    Dr. Irene S. Levine: Disappearing Acts: Should you think the best or assume the worst? Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010

  • I escalate HARD on her and she reciprocates, oh my God.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • In subtle allusion and metaphor -- invoking the natural world's usual flowers, birds, and rivers the Rhine, but mixed here with specific locations and artifacts like the Cologne Cathedral, the bridge at Mainz, and even a huge wine cask in Heidelberg -- Heine tells of a poet's love of a woman who initially reciprocates, but, deciding to marry another, induces the rejected poet to find a way to bury his sorrows.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • Guajardo makes advances to her, and she reciprocates.

    An All-Too-Bloodless Coup Heidi Waleson 2010

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