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  • noun Plural form of vetter.

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Examples

  • If it is true, it suggests a failure on the part of Vatican "vetters" that makes any of the Obama team's mistakes small beer indeed.

    Balkinization 2009

  • Wasn't that enough time for his crackerjack "vetters" to investigate Palin's strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

    Below The Beltway 2008

  • Wasn't that enough time for his crackerjack "vetters" to investigate Palin's strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2008

  • Wasn't that enough time for his crackerjack "vetters" to investigate Palin's strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2008

  • Wasn't that enough time for his crackerjack "vetters" to investigate Palin's strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?

    Below The Beltway 2008

  • But days later agency high-ups rejected the agreement and offered them a much smaller amount in a “take it or leave it” deal, Shipp wrote in an unpublished manuscript that was heavily redacted by agency vetters.

    Intelligence panels ignored CIA officer's pleas Jeff Stein 2011

  • This strategy may work, though my gut tells me that voters in early states feel keenly about their role as vetters and will insist on seeing candidates up close, not just on their televisions.

    The Republicans' Rising Satisfaction Quotient Karl Rove 2011

  • It would be nice if the vetters has at least an understanding or appreciation of the wide variety of unique perspectives out there.

    NASA Faces Tough Choices & Needs an Administrator Now - NASA Watch 2009

  • If she had, like fellow honoree Desmond Tutu, taken a leading part in overthrowing apartheid, it would make sense to say that the White House vetters were dazzled by good deeds and failed to notice dubious words.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • July 13th, 2009 9: 20 pm ET its kinda funny that they go through all this and they still have so many nominees who don't pay taxes and so many nominees that withdraw its a sign of the Obama administration – ineffective, inefficient, and wasteful all it does is stimulate the jobs of lobbyists, vetters, and lawyers.

    Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare' 2009

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