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

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Examples

  • Golborne told the men that water was being sent in "doves", the nickname given to the 5ft-long capsules being used to deliver supples to the men through the single borehole that has penetrated down to their shelter.

    Voice of Chile's trapped miners brings relief to families on surface 2010

  • Building these items in space would cost us ungodly amounts of money just in travel carrying the materials and supples.

    Committee Urges Multi-Destination Plan for NASA Human Space Flight | Universe Today 2009

  • And, actually, there is indirect evidence of power supples, in that there are filaments that apparently connect the galaxies

    Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

  • And, actually, there is indirect evidence of power supples, in that there are filaments that apparently connect the galaxies: Astronomers have known since the early 1990s that galaxies cluster in filaments and sheets surrounding vast voids in space.

    Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

  • To some extent you are right, although, the question has to be raised, how hard have conventional astronomers looked for such "power supplies" since and as "power supples" aren't within their model?

    Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

  • However, I cannot protect myself from the carcinogenic and other harmful insults to the body placed into the food supples and I can see no tangible benefit to be traded for the possible increased incidence of malignant disease one to three decades in the future.

    Archive 2008-08-01 News from Mad Plato 2008

  • Even if such drilling were environmentally safe and it's not -- remember BP? it would amount to a miniscule addition to global oil supples.

    What to Do About the Oil Crisis Robert Reich 2008

  • Even if such drilling were environmentally safe and it's not -- remember BP? it would amount to a miniscule addition to global oil supples.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Robert Reich 2008

  • Cameron supples the Myners quote which proves he did.

    PMQs live blog 2008

  • However, I cannot protect myself from the carcinogenic and other harmful insults to the body placed into the food supples and I can see no tangible benefit to be traded for the possible increased incidence of malignant disease one to three decades in the future.

    NUKED FOOD News from Mad Plato 2008

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