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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lowball .
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Examples
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(I mean "lowballed") the amount of money she accepted from him, and who was guilty of tax evasion (which, of course, was overlooked and forgiven) as someone in the position of HHS Secretary?
Catholic Fire 2009
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Doug Inkley, senior scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, said in a written statement citing MacDonald's findings, "From Day One, BP and the government have lowballed the volume of the oil in the water and minimized the current and future impacts of this disaster."
Oil spill commission questions BP's response plan Joel Achenbach 2010
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Why the Obama administration chronically lowballed estimates of how much BP oil was spewing into the Gulf of Mexico remains a mystery, however, after a top NOAA official easily sidestepped the commissioners 'tepid questioning.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response Dan Froomkin 2010
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Why the Obama administration chronically lowballed estimates of how much BP oil was spewing into the Gulf of Mexico remains a mystery, however, after a top NOAA official easily sidestepped the commissioners 'tepid questioning.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response Dan Froomkin 2010
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(I once lowballed my salary expectations so significantly that within three months of starting I had asked for – and received – a ten per cent correction.)
ProWomanProLife » But what about the remaining seven cents? 2010
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Those contracts were lowballed to start with and were essentially fraudulent or at least the product of enthusiasm at the expense of good business sense.
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Why the Obama administration chronically lowballed estimates of how much BP oil was spewing into the Gulf of Mexico remains a mystery, however, after a top NOAA official easily sidestepped the commissioners 'tepid questioning.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The fuel came from government contractors and the price was lowballed to spur orders.
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It took several days for the company to acknowledge a serious spill, and BP officials repeatedly lowballed the amount of leaking oil (probably 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day).
Black Water Rising 2010
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Touch-sensitivity appeared to influence accuracy, as participants lowballed thumb-lengths by less than 10% but pinkie-lengths by more than 30%.
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