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- verb Present participle of
paternalize .
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Examples
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Do you see the other smokers mentioning the “paternalizing attitudes” of non-smokers?
Matthew Yglesias » LA Contemplates Further Smoking Restrictions 2009
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The day that women had to analyze whether or not the are strong, or equal etc is the day they stopped being so, and became paternalizing pedantic replicant whiners... that old expression 'there are those who do and those who teach... set apart from those who teach by doing.
Feminism Piled Higher and Deeper Zoe Brain 2008
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Besides Ms. Riben her comments on John is paternalizing and not helping much adoptees who are unaware about the reality of many adoptions.
Blogger News Network 2009
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He thinks the government has been paternalizing at our expense, and that only harm will come from it. "
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888
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