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  • verb Present participle of dere.

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Examples

  • HIllary wants to introduce a tax holiday for this summer but can't do anything about it until she is in the White House in January. dering

    New Obama response spot on the gas tax 2008

  • Dead horses notwithstanding, Sayler's subjects tend to be sparse and unsentimental: a glacier's flank, a stand of smol-dering trees, a smoke-filled sky, a shack in the desert.

    GOOD Magazine: Into The Coal Mine 2008

  • Gerryman-dering ensures few upsets among black incumbents.

    Midterm Mud Bath 2008

  • Gregorius, Leo, Vitellius and Macdugalius, four excavators, if she will not yield to him and also deceive Honuphrius by ren-dering conjugal duty when demanded.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Uliba was limp against me, gasping with relief, and I was shud dering weakly as I heard them hauling some heavy article across the trap, and then came the crunch and scrape and foul language of labourers delving in the packed earth.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • Her voice was small, barely audible over the thun - dering of his heart.

    Tanner Ties Moreland, Peggy 2005

  • "I suppose you'd better come in," she said with a wave of her hand, all the while won-dering what approach she should take for the part of Lionel's secret mistress.

    A Secret Vengeance Lee, Miranda 2001

  • Bek watched with the others, won - dering what was happening.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • He found himself won - dering which of the three horrors of Ryer Ord Star's vision guarded this key.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • All the while, Bek watched Walker carefully, won - dering what the meeting was all about, what sort of favor the Druid could want of them, how he knew Coran Leah, what he was doing with a Wing Rider, and on and on.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

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