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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
officiate .
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Examples
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Richard "officiates" for the rev. the vicar; no ties of home or kindred, no memories of boyhood, no glow of early recollections, touch the case-hardened parasite of college growth; and when he has banished his younger brother to Australia, under pretext of making his fortune, married both his sisters, and erected a cheap monument to the linen-draper's widow as the "relict of the late Thomas Thompson,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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My leaving Umno just 'officiates' my position as a non-member. "
desiderata-ylchong 2009
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It's Barb, of course, that officiates the wedding, since the internet has made her a member of the Universal Life Church.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 7 Mark Blankenship 2011
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Visitors with a Feb. 2 birthday are invited to attend 'Phil's Birthday Celebration,' and those wanting to get married or to renew their vows can do so at 'Phil's Wedding Chapel' where the town's mayor officiates the ceremony.
Jodi Bettencourt: Groundhog Blog Jodi Bettencourt 2011
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The coat officiates as equivalent, or appears in equivalent form.
skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 3A skzbrust 2010
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It's Barb, of course, that officiates the wedding, since the internet has made her a member of the Universal Life Church.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 7 Mark Blankenship 2011
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Visitors with a Feb. 2 birthday are invited to attend 'Phil's Birthday Celebration,' and those wanting to get married or to renew their vows can do so at 'Phil's Wedding Chapel' where the town's mayor officiates the ceremony.
Jodi Bettencourt: Groundhog Blog Jodi Bettencourt 2011
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Visitors with a Feb. 2 birthday are invited to attend 'Phil's Birthday Celebration,' and those wanting to get married or to renew their vows can do so at 'Phil's Wedding Chapel' where the town's mayor officiates the ceremony.
Jodi Bettencourt: Groundhog Blog Jodi Bettencourt 2011
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Visitors with a Feb. 2 birthday are invited to attend 'Phil's Birthday Celebration,' and those wanting to get married or to renew their vows can do so at 'Phil's Wedding Chapel' where the town's mayor officiates the ceremony.
Jodi Bettencourt: Groundhog Blog Jodi Bettencourt 2011
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'This is the outcome that we always preferred,' said Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel of the NLRB, which officiates labor disputes between workers and employers.
HUFFPOST HILL - Dems Deploy Payroll Tax Robots Eliot Nelson 2011
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