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  • noun Plural form of spraying.

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Examples

  • I've seen a number of reports of pepper sprayings, but I've not had a reliable first-hand account yet.8.37pm: Police on horseback have moved in and barricades have been deployed on Wall Street proper, according to Salon writer Justin Elliot on the scene.

    Occupy Wall Street protests - live coverage 2011

  • The farmer noted that one large batch of the insecticide solution had been made and used in all the sprayings.

    Sample PISA questions given to 15-year-olds Valerie Strauss 2010

  • The farmer noted that one large batch of the insecticide solution had been made and used in all the sprayings.

    Sample PISA questions given to 15-year-olds Valerie Strauss 2010

  • Those campesinos and indigenous people who have tried to hold out against the pressure to sell their land have found their subsistence lifestyles and even their very lives under attack from aerial sprayings of "agrotoxins," and from roving thugs who have tried to repress dissent by targeting community leaders for harassment and even, in one extreme case, assassination.

    Tracy L. Barnett: Paraguay Takes Hard Line on GMOs 2010

  • Those campesinos and indigenous people who have tried to hold out against the pressure to sell their land have found their subsistence lifestyles and even their very lives under attack from aerial sprayings of "agrotoxins," and from roving thugs who have tried to repress dissent by targeting community leaders for harassment and even, in one extreme case, assassination.

    Tracy L. Barnett: Paraguay Takes Hard Line on GMOs 2010

  • FURST fing tu du if wurried bowt sprayings iz… get him tutored!

    If you say moo one more time - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Ai am worrieds about him skratchin teh furnitures tho…ai is gettin a scratchy post but still…and teh sprayings! has u, or teh other cheezepeeps, any tips to stop teh sprayings or teh scratchings?

    If you say moo one more time - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • But, it was later found out that many of the juveniles in CYA facilities were being transferred to California county juvenile halls that included “severe overcrowding, with teenagers sleeping floors; nonexistent educational opportunity; nonexistent mental healthcare or rehabilitative programs; isolation for over twenty-three hours a day for months straight; use of excessive force, including beatings and pepper sprayings; and inappropriate administration of medications.”

    Printing: Judges Paid to Send Teens to Juvenile Detention Centers 2009

  • But, it was later found out that many of the juveniles in CYA facilities were being transferred to California county juvenile halls that included “severe overcrowding, with teenagers sleeping floors; nonexistent educational opportunity; nonexistent mental healthcare or rehabilitative programs; isolation for over twenty-three hours a day for months straight; use of excessive force, including beatings and pepper sprayings; and inappropriate administration of medications.”

    Judges Paid to Send Teens to Juvenile Detention Centers 2009

  • American citizens, therefore, need to protest these sprayings and other activities in no uncertain terms to legislators on local, state, and federal levels.

    PESTICIDE or GENOCIDE? HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION ON U.S. CITIZENS. 2008

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