Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, braced together; tied or bound together.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
embrace .
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Examples
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In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where many other very wealthy Iranian-Americans were quick to forget their heritage, Bijan and his name embraced it.
Shirin Sadeghi: Iranian-American Fashion Icon Bijan Pakzad Passes Away Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where many other very wealthy Iranian-Americans were quick to forget their heritage, Bijan and his name embraced it.
Shirin Sadeghi: Iranian-American Fashion Icon Bijan Pakzad Passes Away Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where many other very wealthy Iranian-Americans were quick to forget their heritage, Bijan and his name embraced it.
Shirin Sadeghi: Iranian-American Fashion Icon Bijan Pakzad Passes Away Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where many other very wealthy Iranian-Americans were quick to forget their heritage, Bijan and his name embraced it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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"I'm a maverick, he's a maverick, wouldn't you like to be a maverick, too?" offered Michael Burke of Silver Spring, Md., in his entry for the label embraced by unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
IBN Top Headlines 2009
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"I'm a maverick, he's a maverick, wouldn't you like to be a maverick, too?" offered Michael Burke of Silver Spring, Md., in his entry for the label embraced by unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Custom Search 2009
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Uh-huh, if you haven't figured it out, and just in case you thought the pic above to be sexist as it takes shots at "big girls" a term embraced by overweight women I might add, you're dead ass wrong.
Fat Hatred Or Not? You Decide Renee 2009
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Uh-huh, if you haven't figured it out, and just in case you thought the pic above to be sexist as it takes shots at "big girls" a term embraced by overweight women I might add, you're dead ass wrong.
Archive 2009-11-01 Renee 2009
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Since then, supply-side economics, as it was called - first with derision but then as a label embraced by its supporters - has become a central tenet of Republican political and economic thinking in the country.
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"Anozzer romance of the Far Vest!" cried the count, to whom this term embraced the entire continent from Maine to San Francisco.
Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907
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