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

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  • Klagtes is ontvang dat eise van leweransiers en sakemanne te stadig geprosesseer word weens die gebrek aan samewerking van

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • INCOMING APPROPS CHAIR A BIG FAN OF APPROPS-ING - Unless the nonprofit also weens Cheetahs off of their addiction to glue-sniffing, this couldn't get any better: Rep. Hal Rogers may have sworn off earmarks as he lobbied his way into the powerful House Appropriations Committee chairmanship, but there's a reason he's earned the nickname 'Prince of Pork.'

    HUFFPOST HILL - Senate FAIL The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Ek wil net daar verduidelik dat al sou ek ook 'n bevel gegee het om te vuur, sou hulle my nie gehoor het nie, weens die geraas, maar ek wou nie' n bevel gee nie want as ek 'n bevel gege het van vuur, sou daar van miskien die Nie-Blanke lede tussen die skare in gevuur het en ek wou dit vermy het ten alle koste.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Die Bantoe lede hat agter die voertuie ingeklim en agter die voertuie geskerm weens die hewige aanval.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • He is still learning and we follow him as he weens himself from the violent life he knows.

    Tsotsi: A Humanist Revolution 2006

  • So man shall do whenever in war he weens to earn him lasting fame, nor fears for his life!

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • So man shall do whenever in war he weens to earn him lasting fame, nor fears for his life!

    Beowulf 2003

  • So man shall do whenever in war he weens to earn him lasting fame, nor fears for his life!

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Gemeenskap van Garies vir die feit dat my vorige besoek, weens tegniese probleme met ons helikopter, op sulke kort kennisgewing gekanseller moes word.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Sommige litigante verkies om in persoon op te tree, maar die oorgrote meerderheid wat onverteenwoordig is, bevind hulself in daardie posisie weens die feit dat hulle nie vir regshulp of vir in forma pauperis verteenwoordiging kwalifiseer nie en is nie in staat om regsverteenwoordiging te beskostig nie.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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