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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ramify .
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Examples
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Roughly two generations earlier, in the 1830s, colonial authorities commented with great interest on the prominence of the Qizilbash of Kabul who were characterized as living in a distinct residential quarter, Chindawul, that utilized its own "separate police and courts of law and justice," and most important, as handling "all the local and foreign correspondence of Kabul so that their influence ramifies in every direction."
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Furthermore, "even though their military influence has declined, they now have more power because every man of rank has (them) for his secretaries and all home and foreign correspondence is in their hands which ramifies their influence in every direction."
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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We assume that the value of the news ramifies outwards from the readership to society as a whole.
Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add up' 2010
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Away from the water, the old quarter ramifies into a warren of narrow interconnected lanes.
Varanasi: India's Holy City (PHOTOS) Rajan P. Parrikar 2010
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For example, he presents data suggesting that there are at present diminishing returns on research and development; but he ignores the fact that research ramifies in unexpected ways.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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Away from the water, the old quarter ramifies into a warren of narrow interconnected lanes.
Rajan P. Parrikar: Varanasi: India's Holy City (PHOTOS) 2010
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Because of the way the issue of singular structure in relativistic spacetimes ramifies into almost every major open question in relativistic physics today, both physical and philosophical, it provides a peculiarly rich and attractive focus for these sorts of questions.
Singularities and Black Holes Curiel, Erik 2009
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What they worry about are the possible secondary effects it could have as it ramifies through law and society.
Gay Marriage Is Good for America Jonathan Rauch 2008
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Learning to play the piano fills my head with kinesthetic and auditory thoughts and switches off the verbal part of my head that chattering idiot who ramifies level after level.
Cognitive Fitness Clive Shepherd 2007
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That basic idea of NMT ramifies directly into ecclesiology.
We're all getting married: the new theological synthesis Mike L 2007
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