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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
whet .
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Examples
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"Anytime you have an opportunity to move into a new facility that's going to create a lot of efficiencies, cost efficiencies and operating efficiencies, it kind of whets your appetite to get started," Goodenow said.
This Week News Feed 2010
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And if this music whets your appetite for catching the band live, they will be back in the USA playing at New York's Summerstage.
Michal Shapiro: Yemen Blues at Le Poisson Rouge (video) Michal Shapiro 2011
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Her book is full of useful details on what works in building leadership in schools, but it whets my appetite for much more.
What Wendy Kopp doesn't say about Rhee Jay Mathews 2011
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It's a ratings-booster that whets a growing appetite for flailing the Ghosts of Left-Liberalism Past.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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Anyways, if that whets yer appetite, to make an order for any of the MP3s, head over to the Gigging for Groats post itself, for instructions on how to make an order. posted by Hal Duncan | 2: 38 AM
More on the Menu Hal Duncan 2010
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In the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani, Karla Black has made the kind of work that whets the appetite for the Turner prize, the award she is tipped to win this December: boulder-size bundles of sugar paper chalked over in shades of peach and pistachio and bedecked with talcous mounds of plaster powder; sheets of paper sprayed with fake tan; and balsa wood painted with eyeshadow.
Karla Black at the Venice Biennale: 'Don't call my art feminine' 2011
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And if it whets their appetite, they can find out more.
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And if this music whets your appetite for catching the band live, they will be back in the USA playing at New York's Summerstage.
Michal Shapiro: Yemen Blues at Le Poisson Rouge (video) Michal Shapiro 2011
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I suspect that some readers, like myself, will find this book whets their appetite for further reading on flood myths.
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Neither of the other two really whets my appetite for what may be inside.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake 2010
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