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- noun Plural form of
thwarting .
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Examples
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If it is not feasible as a working writer to avoid or delay taking new initiatives or completing existing processes, eg sending out new proposals and submissions or signing contracts, leases, etc, try to accept complications or thwartings philosophically.
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Lately, the thwartings have indeed become more worthy of the title "pinpointed."
Alan Dershowitz: Targeted Killing Is Working, So Why Is The Press Not Reporting It? 2008
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Instead, Lewis is permitted to live another day and dole out increasingly unlikely beatings, heroic-thwartings, and spittle-flecked madness.
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Instead, Lewis is permitted to live another day and dole out increasingly unlikely beatings, heroic-thwartings, and spittle-flecked madness.
The Signal 2008
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For Alfred and Emily, it seems, life is a series of thwartings, disappointments and regrets.
Reimagined Lives 2008
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Instead, Lewis is permitted to live another day and dole out increasingly unlikely beatings, heroic-thwartings, and spittle-flecked madness.
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For Alfred and Emily, it seems, life is a series of thwartings, disappointments and regrets.
Reimagined Lives 2008
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We must meet our disappointments, our thwartings, our persecutions, our malicious enemies, our provoking friends, our trials and temptations of every sort, with an active and experimental attitude of surrender and trust.
Happiness Is … Simple Steps to a Life of Joy A. R. Bernard 2006
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We must meet our disappointments, our thwartings, our persecutions, our malicious enemies, our provoking friends, our trials and temptations of every sort, with an active and experimental attitude of surrender and trust.
Happiness Is … Simple Steps to a Life of Joy A. R. Bernard 2006
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Tale, no lesse true then lamentable; which albeit it sorted to a successefull ending, yet notwithstanding, such and so many were the bitter thwartings, as hardly can I beleeve, that ever any sorrow was more joyfully sweetned.
The Decameron 2004
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