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- noun Plural form of
prompting .
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Examples
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* Powerful Defender -- Elizabeth Bunyan: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 at "promptings" hat-tip: Rebecca Writes, where it's Puritan Month
Readables 2005
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* Powerful Defender -- Elizabeth Bunyan: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 at "promptings" hat-tip: Rebecca Writes, where it's Puritan Month
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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I try not to give in to any, "promptings," of compassion or pity.
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When I say 'promptings', I mean that as a euphemism because they got a rocket at half-time.
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When I say 'promptings', I mean that as a euphemism because they got a rocket at half-time.
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While we are being fair, it seems reasonable to reward responsible young male drivers for resisting not only the mischievous promptings of their hormones, but a lifetime's cultural conditioning to the effect that a speed limit is actually a challenge, and a car a glossy, supercharged weapon specifically engineered for the humiliation of rivals and erotic mastery over fertile women.
Sorry, but cheaper car insurance patronises women | Catherine Bennett 2011
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My lost days are of a different sort, as I have not fulfilled at all my own creative muse's promptings, but have spent much of my time fostering others.
It begins and ends in rust. Which begs the question... greygirlbeast 2010
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I want to believe that we as a flawed and contentious species can rise above the promptings of our baser natures and seek the divine, however we might conceive it.
Inching along ... karenmiller 2009
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In recent years, American men — long a staid lot when it comes to style — have responded positively to designers' promptings to put more color into their wardrobes.
Coats of Many Colors (For Men) Ray A. Smith 2011
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By the way, if you say that's all overcome by good scholarship or the Holy Spirit, you still have a problem, since so many people who sincerely seek to follow the principles of good scholarship and/or the promptings of the Spirit come up with such wildly different versions of Christianity.
Brian D. McLaren: Will 'Love Wins' Win? We're Early In The First Inning ... Brian D. McLaren 2011
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