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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
eke .
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Examples
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I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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"eked" is rather an odd verb to describe a three million vote margin.
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DHNS: Karnataka eked out a draw against Andhra in the KSCA South Zone under-14 cricket tournament here on Monday.
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Recently only three airlines that I know of actually kind of eked out a profit.
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Looking back now, I could have made bogey and still won, but fortunately I had a good tee shot and pitching wedge into the green, and kind of eked my putt up there and tapped it in. "
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While the landmark stock offering eked out a small profit of $54 million for taxpayers and began the government's exit from the insurer 2½ years after its record bailout, the stock fell 4% on Wednesday to make it the worst first-day performer of U.S. follow-on stock offerings over $1 billion.
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AIG Offering : American International Group and the U.S. Treasury Department sold $8.7 billion in AIG stock, in an offering that eked out a small profit for taxpayers and began the government's exit from the bailed-out insurer.
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