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  • noun Plural form of hiding.

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Examples

  • Obama, Sarkozy and Brown accused Iran of intentionally hidings its nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

    Morning Buzz: One on one with Bill Clinton 2009

  • She thought of childhood and necessary hidings and knees pulled up to chin.

    Peggy Guggenheim Visits Picasso's Bathroom 2010

  • While officers are allowed by law to use force, and do so, in my experience they are too wise to dish out hidings for fun.

    Hang On A Minute…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • There has been strong reaction against a proposed law to ban all corporal punishment of children, including hidings from their parents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Ornate wood with brightlocks and hinges, secret panels, and the conferred aura of ritual specialness that rubbed off from countless hidings-away of found objects that became firmly mine only at that moment.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • Many of the children's parents showed up and took their children out of the group and gave them hidings.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • So she escaped: but, as I said, a sadness hung upon her all her life; and the skirt of that dark mantle fell upon the young girl who had been the partner of her wanderings and hidings among the lonely hills; and who, after she was married, gave herself utterly up to God.

    Westward Ho! 2007

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