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- verb Present participle of
parlay .
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Examples
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He will try to replicate Barbara Walters 'and Meredith Vieira's successes in parlaying their serious journalism backgrounds into successful daytime gigs.
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Who can really take pride in creating fictitious people and assigning them a gender and a name and parlaying this to the public.
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Who can really take pride in creating fictitious people and assigning them a gender and a name and parlaying this to the public.
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In the summer of 1982, at the Sacramento County Fair, twelve-year-old Ben Holden could not be beat, parlaying a black light poster of Blue Öyster Cult into a San Francisco 49ers AstroTurf doormat that graced the hall outside his bedroom.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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And they've been parlaying their remixed subculture far beyond L.A. Here's Far East Movement at a club in the agricultural town of Bakersfield, California.
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You have a better shot at being a millionaire by parlaying your union-benefits job into savings that you put into a house and starting capital for a small business or investments than you would as a non-union wage-slave at, say, Wal-Mart.
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The holdings are enormous, and sales, even at a discount, could cover the system's needs for years, much less the time to finish budget parlaying.
The Debt Battle Is Good for the GOP Clark S. Judge 2011
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HOUSTON - A pilot accused of parlaying phony NASA, CIA and war credentials into access to some of the space agency's highest security areas was in custody Tuesday, charged with impersonating a federal officer.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Since it emerged that he would be participating in this year's Strictly, the badinage on his Twitter feed has been considerably less "self‑confident" than usual, suggesting that here was a man who had finally realised he was out of his comfort zone, a safe haven where he can generally be found parlaying about football with other football men.
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning 2011
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And they've been parlaying their remixed subculture far beyond L.A. Here's Far East Movement at a club in the agricultural town of Bakersfield, California.
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