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

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Examples

  • The phrase communicates the parent’s opinion of the child’s skill level at that time, regardless of the degree of difficulty the child attaches to the task.

    Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

  • The phrase communicates the parent’s opinion of the child’s skill level at that time, regardless of the degree of difficulty the child attaches to the task.

    Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

  • The phrase communicates the parent’s opinion of the child’s skill level at that time, regardless of the degree of difficulty the child attaches to the task.

    Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

  • The FireShare Plugin communicates with a Coordination Server to help group peers based on visited URLs.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - FireShare: Dennis is doing his thesis! 2007

  • So until Colossus gets a voice box at the end of the book, Forbin communicates with Colossus via teletype …

    KAMN Show #29: Colossus: The Forbin Project : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2007

  • At some point, the word communicates something pejorative.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use: 2007

  • At least within the community to which I was directing my remarks -- namely, friends in my faculty lounge and colleagues at other law schools -- my experience has been that the phrase communicates exactly what I intended: people instantly recognize the phenomenon and share my reaction to it.

    Law Porn, Law School Puffspam, Haiku, and Woodpeckers 2005

  • MTF reliably informs me that saying “my friend” instead of “a friend” in German communicates everything that everyone needs to know.

    name calling 2005

  • At least within the community to which I was directing my remarks -- namely, friends in my faculty lounge and colleagues at other law schools -- my experience has been that the phrase communicates exactly what I intended: people instantly recognize the phenomenon and share my reaction to it.

    October 2005 2005

  • Art, he says, communicates the feelings, as the word communicates the thoughts.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

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