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

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Examples

  • The disciples are shattered, downcast, scattered and leaderless - and these people then establish a church which 'conquers' the known world.

    Only love can believe Sam Norton 2006

  • The disciples are shattered, downcast, scattered and leaderless - and these people then establish a church which 'conquers' the known world.

    Only love can believe Sam Norton 2005

  • The disciples are shattered, downcast, scattered and leaderless - and these people then establish a church which 'conquers' the known world.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Sam Norton 2005

  • Everywhere the organism that exhibits the qualities of quick response, of extreme sensibility to stimuli, of capacity to change, is the individual that survives, "conquers," "advances."

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • The thing that "conquers" pain in the invincible martyr is love, or

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. "

    A Crystal Age 1881

  • Love conquers all because its pulling takes you to the highest height where, as Rumi said, love can turn a thorn into a flower.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • I must say that an alternative history in which the two parties compromise on a not-too-bad health care plan strikes me as rather less likely than one where Bonnie Prince Charlie conquers a Jacobite kingdom in Virginia.

    Economics 2010

  • Love conquers all ........ but those cobblestoned streets may be a challenge, even to LOVE.

    Handicapped going to Mexico 2009

  • Love conquers all ........ but those cobblestoned streets may be a challenge, even to LOVE.

    Handicapped going to Mexico 2009

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