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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of partake.

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Examples

  • There are plenty of other “non-Christian” activities this admin partakes in.

    Think Progress » Laura Bush’s War on Christmas 2005

  • This redoubtable old sea-relic has inspired me with a respect for him that partakes half of timidity and half of awe.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • Thus Ice-T's "6 'N the Mornin'" is described as not just "a gangsta rap classic" but also "an aubade, as it begins at the crack of dawn, and partakes of the picaresque as it moves through its series of episodes."

    Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011

  • Thus Ice-T's "6 'N the Mornin'" is described as not just "a gangsta rap classic" but also "an aubade, as it begins at the crack of dawn, and partakes of the picaresque as it moves through its series of episodes."

    Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011

  • When Wang partakes, he likes to give himself small tasks to achieve, like going grocery shopping: Suddenly it's a lot more challenging than usual, and you're wandering around this now-unfamiliar territory.

    EXCLUSIVE: Sheng Wang On Shopping While High The Huffington Post 2011

  • And I think that effort is indicative of what often goes on with conservative thinkers, primarily, though lord know the left partakes as well.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco 2010

  • It partakes of Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis and J.R. R. Tolkein, but predates them all.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 4) 2009

  • But neither style partakes of the marks of sacred music: holy, universal, beauty of forms.

    Needed: A Forward Look for Sacred Music 2009

  • Someone who speaks the same language, dresses the same, partakes of the same culture but departs slightly in religious rituals offends more than someone who speaks a foreign language, dresses differently, and worships a strange god.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • That said, the Diamond-Orszag proposal not only partakes of benefit cuts, but of further extension of the prefunding/trust fund model of actuarial solvency.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Cult of Peter Orszag 2009

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