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- verb Present participle of
prest .
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Examples
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It was in fact a warrant out of time, an official anachronism, a red-tape survival of that bygone period when pressing still meant "presting" and force went no further than a threat.
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Hence, as the change from covert to overt violence grew in strength, pressing, in the mouths of the people at large, came to be synonymous with that most obnoxious, oppressive and fear-inspiring system of recruiting which, in the course of time, took the place of its milder and more humane antecedent, presting.
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I'm not saying you are wrong, just asking you to be as precise in presting things in english as you would be presenting the mathamatic analysis.
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He was merely subjected to a process called presting.
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Its abolition was a logical sequence of the change from presting to pressing.
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Madox, R.mo feat Cheleonis R. Jones, on labels such as Alphabat City, Vice Versa, Underwater, Definitive, etc … Now, they are presting you their new track 'Oufti', on Push It R.cords! ...
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The old fellow (without the beard) presting the award is 85 year-old Jack Floyd.
Wandering Coyote 2009
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The Sensex extended its gains and touched the psychological mark of 15,000 on buying interest as the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee started presting Union Budget.
News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination 2009
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The old fellow (without the beard) presting the award is 85 year-old Jack Floyd.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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"pressing," in the mouths of the people at large, came to be synonymous with that most obnoxious, oppressive and fear-inspiring system of recruiting which, in the course of time, took the place of its milder and more humane antecedent, "presting."
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