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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tend .
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The whole concept of an "army" as in the title tends to reinforce that.
Capsule Reviews Walter Jon Williams 2009
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| Reply | Permalink eorockwell, assuming you're seeking an answer - the label tends to be applied as a matter of action and behavior rather than as an extension of one's support of a candidacy.
Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention! 2009
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Rather, the term tends to function (not always, but very often) as a cheap smear, or at best as an entirely unsupported inference that any X (Jew, homosexual, Asians) who might find flaws in common attributes of fellow Xs must surely exhibit the psychological profile that Eric describes.
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The lingo tends to be concrete and calls for mostly very common words so-called high-frequency vocabulary.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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The lingo tends to be concrete and calls for mostly very common words so-called high-frequency vocabulary.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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From this period, however, the title tends to sink in comparative importance.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Again, even many of my undergraduates can tell me that "race is a social construction", but this -- for lack of a better term -- reification (fetishisation?) of the term tends to obscure more than it illuminates.
Wired Campus 2010
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In business, the term tends to be "online collaboration," which suggests complex jobs getting done more efficiently by teams of people wherever they are located.
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The aesthetic of the label tends to stem from what french girls typically wear on the street, which is the idea of throwing together a look from your bedroom floor.
Irish Blogs 2009
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The label tends not to appear in renderings of teenagers who happen to be minorities, or poor, or who have never won a spelling bee.
Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics 2009
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