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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wile .
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Examples
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For too long I had wiled away my days hoping that someone else would save me.
Leon Logothetis: Life outside your box... Leon Logothetis 2011
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He even said once that he was "easily wiled by a woman in a swimsuit", and was referring to Suzie, specifically.
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The old men who usually wiled away their days in front of the post office were nowhere to be seen.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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Of course, we have also wiled away hours trying to remember the starting lineup of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers ....
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The unbelievable breakdown in American lending standards, market instruments no more than a worthless pile of paper, note how market elitists are using the market crash to put pressure on Congress, the plan to bail out fraudsters, the vicious circle of printing more and more currency, more wiled speculation to come after a bailout,
A 700 Billion Bailout With No Review or Oversight Whatsoever | Disinformation 2008
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), for example, could be working to minimize the impacts of oil and gas drilling on public lands, but "the agency is reluctant to wiled that power after a drilling lease is granted," Public News Service reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Politics, Power, and the Environment Beyond BP 2010
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As the hour wiled away, and the others went on the air, I sat, nervous, and definitely not feeling very Twain 2.0 (here, say "Twain 2.0" like you're a dying Walkman to experience how I was feeling).
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), for example, could be working to minimize the impacts of oil and gas drilling on public lands, but "the agency is reluctant to wiled that power after a drilling lease is granted," Public News Service reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Politics, Power, and the Environment Beyond BP 2010
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As the hour wiled away, and the others went on the air, I sat, nervous, and definitely not feeling very Twain 2.0 (here, say "Twain 2.0" like you're a dying Walkman to experience how I was feeling).
Jeff Klima: Lindsay Lohan Nearly Killed Me: Twain 2.0 Jeff Klima 2010
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He then drove us to a movie theatre where we wiled away our time watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Of unbounded domesticity Dayle A. Dermatis 2009
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