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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
truckle .
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Examples
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I truckled in my manly way, while he watched me as though he thought I was there to pinch the silver.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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When the Big 3 CEOs truckled into the beltway in ostensibly ultramodern hybrid vehicles, they paraded more of their cars of yesterday.
NASCAR Car of Yesterday: Emblematic of the Detroit Problem 2010
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When the Big 3 CEOs truckled into the beltway in ostensibly ultramodern hybrid vehicles, they paraded more of their cars of yesterday.
Dawn Teo: NASCAR Car of Yesterday: Emblematic of the Detroit Problem Dawn Teo 2010
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When the Big 3 CEOs truckled into the beltway in ostensibly ultramodern hybrid vehicles, they paraded more of their cars of yesterday.
Dawn Teo: NASCAR Car of Yesterday: Emblematic of the Detroit Problem 2010
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When the Big 3 CEOs truckled into the beltway in ostensibly ultramodern hybrid vehicles, they paraded more of their cars of yesterday.
Dawn Teo: NASCAR Car of Yesterday: Emblematic of the Detroit Problem 2009
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In a letter of 1863 to his friend the botanist Joseph Hooker, he said, ‘But I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.’
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In a letter of 1863 to his friend the botanist Joseph Hooker, he said, ‘But I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.’
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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McCain dropped his disregard for ` ` agents of intolerance '' and truckled to the Christian right.
Margaret Carlson: Long-Shot Hagel May Be Republicans' Best Bet 2008
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Dombey with due respect and deference through many years, but he had never disguised his natural character, or meanly truckled to him, or pampered his master passion for the advancement of his own purposes.
Dombey and Son 2007
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Hugh truckled before the hidden meaning of these words as much as such a being could, and crept out of the door so submissively and subserviently — with an air, in short, so different from that with which he had entered — that his patron on being left alone, smiled more than ever.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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