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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of entitle.

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  • adjective qualified for by right according to law

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Examples

  • This school concedes that the Tamils the world over are by the standard definition of the term entitled to nationhood, but their land space for exercising that claim is Tamilnadu - not Sri Lanka.

    Kottu 2009

  • With a special video recording from New Zealand, Guillermo del Toro announced, moments ago, his partnership with Disney for a new label entitled "Disney Double Dare You", featuring "full family" films with horror bent.

    ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories 2009

  • The letter said, "While there might be no desire to define Christianity in the case of those who claim that they are in any sense of the term entitled to be called Christians, for those persons who, like yourself, disavow the name, there seems to be no need of raising any question as to how broad a range of opinion the name may properly be stretched to cover." [

    Unitarianism in America George Willis Cooke 1885

  • The U.S. went on to positively affirm that "ensuring LGBT refugees receive the protection and assistance to which all refugees are entitled is a priority."

    Human Rights First: Human Rights First Welcomes Attention on LGBTI Refugees - Urges Continued Reforms to Ensure Protection Human Rights First 2010

  • I swear these flippin entitled Americans need to just shut the heck up and get what's taken 60 years to make happen and I'm including the public option.

    In selling health care, Obama's numbers pick may be telling 2009

  • Is there really a manuscript by Stein entitled The Book of Salt?

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • The U.S. went on to positively affirm that "ensuring LGBT refugees receive the protection and assistance to which all refugees are entitled is a priority."

    Human Rights First: Human Rights First Welcomes Attention on LGBTI Refugees - Urges Continued Reforms to Ensure Protection Human Rights First 2010

  • One thing which citizens want and, save perhaps in the extremes of a major war, to which they are entitled is a sober and accurate assessment of the prospects for our economy and general prospects so that they might make informed decisions on how to deploy their resources.

    Archive 2008-05-11 2008

  • One thing which citizens want and, save perhaps in the extremes of a major war, to which they are entitled is a sober and accurate assessment of the prospects for our economy and general prospects so that they might make informed decisions on how to deploy their resources.

    Mendacity, Incompetence, Spin, Panic: a Typical Labour Day 2008

  • In 1992 Alberstein recorded her first album in English, entitled The Man I Love.

    Chava Alberstein. 2009

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