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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tyrannize .
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Examples
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He tyrannizes the small-town citizens, including his doctor (Tony Triano), nurse (Kristine Nevins) and unlikely hosts, who are banished to their bedrooms, while he enjoys homage.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011
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I bet he's the guy who tyrannizes jury pools, blooch
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He tyrannizes the small-town citizens, including his doctor (Tony Triano), nurse (Kristine Nevins) and unlikely hosts, who are banished to their bedrooms, while he enjoys homage.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011
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He tyrannizes the small-town citizens, including his doctor (Tony Triano), nurse (Kristine Nevins) and unlikely hosts, who are banished to their bedrooms, while he enjoys homage.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011
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He tyrannizes the small-town citizens, including his doctor (Tony Triano), nurse (Kristine Nevins) and unlikely hosts, who are banished to their bedrooms, while he enjoys homage.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011
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Their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying, bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who tyrannizes the town square and chases all other street musicians away.
Archive 2009-06-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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Their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying, bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who tyrannizes the town square and chases all other street musicians away.
Celebrating Maurice Sendak tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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It strengthens itself by assuming the appearance of duty, and tyrannizes under the pretence of obeying.
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Who does violence to his own faculties, tyrannizes over his own mind, and usurps the prerogative that belongs to truth alone, which is to command assent by only its own authority, i.e. by and in proportion to that evidence which it carries with it.
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The fashion of the present indicative tyrannizes over contemporary American poetry more cruelly than the heroic couplet did in the age of Pope.
A Life's Work 2005
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