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  • noun rare Plural form of undoing.

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Examples

  • The uncredited episodes, with titles like "The Legend of the Official Visit" and "The Legend of the Chicken Driver," skew to satirical undoings of party orthodoxy and folkwise apocrypha illustrating the foibles of human nature.

    Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

  • A wall builds between me and the day ahead—a whirlpool of impossible decisions and undoings.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • I remember drowning in the flood, remember all kinds of undoings in all kinds of disastrous circumstances.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • A wall builds between me and the day ahead—a whirlpool of impossible decisions and undoings.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • The various doings and undoings of the Bush Administration are extremely painful to look back at without a shield of humor such as the Daily Show or the Colbert Report.

    Saying Goodbye to the Bush Administration… in Verse | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • The fact Spenser had his hand in such dastardly doings and undoings.

    Dead heads and humanists 2009

  • That isn't to say that the components of the disaster were unknown -- the subprime crisis, the earlier financial undoings of Fannie Mae and Bear Stearns this summer, and the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers last week.

    Social surprises Daniel Little 2008

  • His undoing arrived — well, how many undoings were there really?

    Well, A Good Polka It Is For My Good Friend Lee Siegel : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008

  • That isn't to say that the components of the disaster were unknown -- the subprime crisis, the earlier financial undoings of Fannie Mae and Bear Stearns this summer, and the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers last week.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • Proserpine a black lamb, Neptune a bull (read more in [6525] Stuckius at large), besides sheep, cocks, corals, frankincense, to their undoings, as if their gods were affected with blood or smoke.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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