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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
namecheck .
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Examples
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Before the verb even existed, Dylan "namechecked" Belle Starr,
Expecting Rain 2009
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Before the verb even existed, Dylan "namechecked" Belle Starr,
Expecting Rain 2009
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Adam Gabbatt reports that a huge cheer goes up when the protest is namechecked on the news tickers that flash above the street.
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"It's major to be namechecked, and yes, this night is so 'Gossip Girl.'"
Real-Life Gossip Girls Toast a TV 'Gossip' Marshall Heyman 2011
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"Rampant speculation has namechecked Rahm Emanuel though he's a little busy running for mayor of Chicago."
What they're saying about "O: A Presidential Novel" Steven E. Levingston 2011
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For the 2003 Best of Young British Novelists issue Granta editor Ian Jack namechecked Miéville as "an extraordinary writer of dark fantasy" but stopped short of including him on the list.
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This must be the only play ever written in which Herbert Aptheker is namechecked.
Slaves of the Past Terry Teachout 2011
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Our own Dan Bertolet gets namechecked in national pub as Yimby (Yes in my back yard) poster child.
PubliCola and the Excellent Dan Bertolet Get Shout Out in Mother Jones « PubliCola 2010
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By 1991, as he prepared his attempt to win it for a fifth time, he was being namechecked by the chancellor of the exchequer, Norman Lamont, during the budget speech.
How Boxing Day sport became a permanent fixture in our hearts | Rob Bagchi 2011
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David Sexton in the Evening Standard namechecked pioneering work by Richard Mabey and Marion Shoard, but called Edgelands fantastically precious, despite the grittiness of the locales.
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