Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of echo.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.
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The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.
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My name echoed from his lips like a prayer, murmured in gentle refrain.
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My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again.
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The name echoed through her mind, and then she remembered.
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My name echoed in my head, his voice, not his voice.
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The word echoed in the room; Neason took a step back at the force of it.
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Peter went from seeing his name on cut lists to hearing his name echoed over and over again like that of a champion.
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Last night: the phrase echoed in my mind, and I blinked.
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The word echoed inside him, a mournful reverberation that emanated from behind his breastbone and would not stop.
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