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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
subdue .
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Examples
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The cybernetic implant kind of subdues his personality.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Eren’s Review Forum 2009
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The cybernetic implant kind of subdues his personality.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Eren’s Review Forum 2009
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Your super-animal, your supreme-stag subdues the other stags, but he never conquers himself, he never feels the need of it, and therefore he never comprehends what we call tragedy. "
A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Your super-animal, your supreme-stag subdues the other stags, but he never conquers himself, he never feels the need of it, and therefore he never comprehends what we call tragedy. "
A Far Country — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909
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Your super-animal, your supreme-stag subdues the other stags, but he never conquers himself, he never feels the need of it, and therefore he never comprehends what we call tragedy. "
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Wesley Dodds is The Sandman, a gas-mask wearing detective who subdues his enemies with sleeping gas.
Fan Films Put You To Sleep? Enter Sandman | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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Meyers cleverly subdues this with her vegetarian options; making the option more ‘palatable’.
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The latest is the Pacific Salt with a black blade that reduces reflection and subdues the blade's presence.
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If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Once a mixed-media artist whose interests mirrored those of found-object artist Jessica Stockholder, Rice has distinguished herself through her use of color, in particular through violently bright neons she subdues using the despairing grays of urban blight.
Galleries: 'Heirlooms' at Transformer; 'Bound' at Hamiltonian 2011
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