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

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Examples

  • If that information is merely tendentious, confused, or deceptive, then we cannot say we know anything-we cannot say that what our intellect contains "adequates" to the realities in and around it.

    Argent by the Tiber 2008

  • But the flight was trouble free, food adequates, entertainment ditto, and Ily ggot some sleep.

    Sacre bleue! karenmiller 2008

  • December 1st: It is curious to see "subjects" and "questions" slipping from out of the mental grasp, as the physical degeneracy advances ... those slight topics to which I felt myself so adequates and tossed about so lightly, lie dormant under their present colossal expansion.

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

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