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

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Examples

  • While McCain salutes their "leadership", he is arrogantly (but not surprisingly) ignoring their wishes – and therefore implicitly their claim to leadership of/ownership over their own country.

    McCain 'pleasantly surprised' by Iraqi leader 2008

  • WSJ: John Fund calls salutes state certification boards "A license to kill jobs."

    Today's Columns: A Long-Overdue Purge Nick Baumann 2007

  • WSJ: John Fund calls salutes state certification boards "A license to kill jobs."

    Today's Columns: A Long-Overdue Purge 2007

  • Since the early 1900s, the city's firefighters have greeted every Fourth of July at 6 a.m. by setting off a series of 12 to 15 loud explosions, called salutes, throughout the city.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • BEAM US UP: This spiced wheat beer's spacey name salutes New Belgium's brewery, affectionately known as the Mothership.

    Fore, right! 2010

  • He "salutes" the chairman for coming out with an "opening foray" and that there are "things he would agree with, and thing he disagrees with."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • And with amazed me was the different kind of salutes that they gave to Teddy Kennedy.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2009 2009

  • In Texas, as a singer croons in the background, a mock-serious announcer "salutes" Democrat Chris Bell as "Mr. Way-Too-Liberal-For-Texas Guy."

    Nasty ads close out a mud-caked campaign 2006

  • I love the way Mirren "salutes" Elizabeth Windsor.

    Simulblogging the Oscars! Ann Althouse 2007

  • I love the way Mirren "salutes" Elizabeth Windsor.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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