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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fare.

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Examples

  • This label fared well in the rest of the country especially in the Western Canadian provinces but Quebecers showed significant resentment.

    unknown title 2009

  • This label fared well in the rest of the country especially in the Western Canadian provinces but Quebecers showed significant resentment.

    unknown title 2009

  • And a way to figure it out is to first look at how Barack Obama and John McCain fared in the state.

    Franken's Position Looks Surprisingly Good, New Political Study Shows The Huffington Post News Team 2008

  • So he opened the door, and Ala al-Din fared forth and walked on, with the dogs barking at his heels, and he went forwards through the dark when behold, he saw the door of a mosque standing open and, entering the vestibule, there took shelter and concealment; and suddenly a light approached him and on examining it he saw that it came from a pair of lanthorns borne by two slaves before two merchants.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Which, since ye fared, is pitied by each envious foe;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse than it would have done on those of his predecessor.

    A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • The word fared no better in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3 1978

  • Accordingly, the kettle-drums beat to combat and the standards fluttered whilst the fighting-men armour donned and their horses mounted and themselves displayed and to plain fared.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In the first half, Barron's bullish stock picks trailed the market, although our bearish calls fared better than their benchmarks.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the first half, Barron's bullish stock picks trailed the market, although our bearish calls fared better than their benchmarks.

    unknown title 2011

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