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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
godfather .
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Examples
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The No Child Left Behind legislation godfathered by Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush is explicitly concerned with narrowing racial achievement gaps.
Slate on Sailer 2009
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The No Child Left Behind legislation godfathered by Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush is explicitly concerned with narrowing racial achievement gaps.
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The No Child Left Behind legislation godfathered by Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush is explicitly concerned with narrowing racial achievement gaps.
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This was the template for what came to be called funk -- which godfathered disco, then hip-hop.
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In his third he won the most decisive victory in U.S. military history, persuaded the Arabs to sit down with the Israelis at Madrid, and godfathered the reunification of Germany.
Four More Years? 2003
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In his third he won the most decisive victory in U.S. military history, persuaded the Arabs to sit down with the Israelis at Madrid, and godfathered the reunification of Germany.
Four More Years? 2003
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We know there is one branch of fiction, godfathered by Kafka and Borges, which has abandoned the pretense that it really happened for fantasy and joke, miracle and fairy tale.
Melting into Air Dinnage, Rosemary 1996
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He prides himself on having godfathered the first state universal-health-care plan.
Bush for President 1988
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He prides himself on having godfathered the first state universal-health-care plan.
Bush for President 1988
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I almost wish I'd never godfathered you into this blessed little stoke-hole.
A Modern Mercenary Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard 1899
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