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

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Examples

  • We have to fight all the time to be heard, to get anywhere and it sure anneals the liberalness in us - we get tough about it.

    Sebelius And Kaine Booked To Discuss Obama's Veep Choice On Sunday Shows 2009

  • The fire anneals and re-tempers you, and you come out different.

    This Magic Moment ... Steve Perry 2006

  • The fire anneals and re-tempers you, and you come out different.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Steve Perry 2006

  • Texture and Flavor Wild rice has a firm, chewy texture thanks to its intact bran layer and the parching process, which gelates and then anneals the starch much as parboiling does for true rice.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Texture and Flavor Wild rice has a firm, chewy texture thanks to its intact bran layer and the parching process, which gelates and then anneals the starch much as parboiling does for true rice.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Just how the election process anneals is a black mystery -- at least, to those people who aren't party to the workings of the Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons -- but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • For instance, the land preparation planting of crops, caring for the crops/anneals, harvesting/processing marketing.

    8.1 Introduction to management 1995

  • While the metal anneals, he goes back to work on a hand-cranked, metal-bladed fan - a novelty item for Jasolt - wishing that he had an answer for Brede, besides the small shields for wizard fire.

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

  • The baking not only anneals the wire, but reduces the shellac to a hard and highly insulating mass.

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • All this is now being cast in the stuff that makes the tough national resolves of These States, that every hour only anneals tougher.

    Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892) 1892

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