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  • verb Present participle of lateral.

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Examples

  • I realize it had not nearly hit bottom, but there were already pretty strong signs - at a law firm, you can tell because suddenly nobody is lateralling out and a higher percentage of post-summer offers are being accepted.

    "Never having done this with Bill." Ann Althouse 2007

  • The only thing that Watts was a professional at, was hiding the ball or lateralling it at the very last second to a trailing back.

    Dirty Ol' Egg Suckin' Dog (s) 2006

  • Not like, what, 1982 when Cal/Stanford did the same thing but that came out good for the team that was lateralling.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005 2005

  • Please take note of the generosity of spirit here, a senior correspondent such as Russert lateralling a question to one of his colleagues.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Nominates Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense - December 28, 2000 2000

  • The Hornets closed to within 29-18 at halftime with the help of a nifty play, with Librizzi passing to Pat Nee over the middle and Nee lateralling to McCrea as he cut across the middle from the other direction.

    TimesArgus.com: Sports 2008

  • The second came with him lateralling the pill when he should not have been.

    The Hockey Rodent 2008

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