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  • verb Present participle of deselect.

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Examples

  • Friday, May 15, 2009 strange days are these patterson may be able to dissolve integrity panel british parliament in deep doo doo over expenses brown looking at 'deselecting' members of parliament

    life's journey 2009

  • Friday, May 15, 2009 strange days are these patterson may be able to dissolve integrity panel british parliament in deep doo doo over expenses brown looking at 'deselecting' members of parliament

    life's journey 2009

  • So far, BofA has laid off almost all of its 28 sales and trading first year analysts (5 or 6 remain, some of their desks haven't been through the "deselecting" process.)

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • So far, BofA has laid off almost all of its 28 sales and trading first year analysts (5 or 6 remain, some of their desks haven't been through the "deselecting" process.)

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • Systematically “deselecting” the least-effective teachers -- like stemming the tide of creative teachers leaving the profession -- is possible by correcting the current beliefs and practices that amount to myths and mediocrity.

    The myth of teacher tenure 2010

  • My suspicion is that they put forward Abbas so as not to leave themselves open to the charge of deselecting a Bangladeshi and replacing him with a white man.

    Tower Hamlets: Rahman's reverse 2010

  • You can manually add songs to the iPhone by deselecting the Sync check box.

    Scripting News for 6/30/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • Great point Marek re: squabbles over selecting and deselecting and having to watch that your floor remains selected.

    Elevator buttons suck | Sync Blog 2007

  • In those days, and indicating very starkly that they had and have absolutely nothing in common with New Labour (who were doing the deselecting at the time), those with the gravest reservations about mandatory reselection feared that it would give too much power to vocal cliques within Constituency Labour Parties, and argued that a CLP should be at least one twelfth the size of the Labour vote at the preceding General Election.

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009

  • I had the most delicious meringue cake with vanilla cream, and this was only after deselecting at least three other cakes with and without chocolate.

    Christmas party, cakes and sushi magnio 2008

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