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  • verb Present participle of discover.

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Examples

  • Or you may decide that an excess of humility led him to downplay or omit his own seminal role in "discovering" electricity.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • Or you may decide that an excess of humility led him to downplay or omit his own seminal role in "discovering" electricity.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • Or you may decide that an excess of humility led him to downplay or omit his own seminal role in "discovering" electricity.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • I'm interested in discovering unique products, remedies and people of the world.

    Zihuatanejo-unique experiences,products and remedies 2010

  • What we're discovering is that as we try to broaden our online audience beyond a subculture that writes and reads by its own set of rules, the new readers expect us to adhere to the same ethical and professional code as we do in print, he said.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • It's an expression of discovering the essence of taste.

    Cookery masterclass: Alain Ducasse 2011

  • After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry A. Coyne (a new book -- quite readable -- the facts supporting evolution) and "Darwin -- discovering the Tree of Life" by Niles Eldredge (the book written for the exhibit on Darwin that has traveled around the world and in now in England -- only available here in hard cover).

    St Patrick's Day Jean 2009

  • If you ever wondered how to write 'what you don't know' or are interested in discovering your full, creative potential, you will learn a great deal from this interview.

    Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin 2010

  • However, I like to think of it as your 6 minute investment in discovering you do not care for my work.

    FRIDAY MIDNIGHT FIVE STARS • by David J. Rank 2009

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