Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
abreast .
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- adverb Simplified spelling of
abreast
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Examples
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It also had one of the strangest tube stations on the network, with platforms so narrow you couldn't stand two-abrest on them.
The One With The New Places kisobel 2007
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RSS feeds college students' diet for research By Anh Ly, Gannett News Service Aug 1, 2005 - how students use RSS to do their research and keep abrest.
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I told them that riding two abrest, was also an offence.
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We may not be able to stem the tide of 'progress' but we can certainly look at our own lives and think ahead and most certainly we need to stay abrest of those entities in our midst who would steal our privacy and our most personal information.
Verichip, RFID, Biochips and ID Sniper Rifles- When Is Progress a Danger? 2009
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Can any one tell me how to keep abrest of information leading to the formation of Class-action law suits that might be brought against these Murderers?
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Perhaps it just reminds us all of the importance of staying inquisitive and looking beyond the "usual suspects" to keep abrest of new ideas and new research, and of the danger of living within our assumptions, lest we find ourselves intently perfecting the horse-driven carriage while others are dreaming of rocketships to the Moon.
Innovation II 2005
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I send folks here all the time. thanks for keeping me abrest of thins musical.
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The Trater's Gate is wide enuff to admit about twenty traters abrest, I should jedge; but beyond this, I couldn't see that it was superior to gates in gen'ral.
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Catholic reader -- who hardly reads Marathi -- was largely unable to keep abrest with the thoughts of one side of the debate.
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The Trater's Gate is wide enuff to admit about twenty traters abrest, I should jedge; but beyond this, I couldn't see that it was superior to gates in gen'ral.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887
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