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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
Astroturf .
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Examples
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Joshua Greenman at the Daily News writes that Obama's appearance on The Daily Show will make the Stewart/Colbert rally seem like "a Democratic Party event, through and through - appearing to opponents every bit as 'Astroturfed' as the biggest Tea Party events seem."
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Joshua Greenman at the Daily News writes that Obama's appearance on The Daily Show will make the Stewart/Colbert rally seem like "a Democratic Party event, through and through - appearing to opponents every bit as 'Astroturfed' as the biggest Tea Party events seem."
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Astroturfed essays on Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton...
Current Affairs 2008
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The Rogers place, for instance, grew to 4,800 square feet and was filled with computers and plasma screens, not to mention an Astroturfed backyard football field.
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The backyard was a strip of Astroturfed patio followed by real grass, pale in comparison.
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
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In the meantime they climb into the Astroturfed "Stealth Fighter" sculpture by Zaq Landsberg on the playground and bang on the plastic industrial drums created by the M.O.R.E., a k a the Ministry of Random Events.
NYT > Home Page By RUTH PENNEBAKER 2011
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The true danger here comes not from the grassroots right, but from the Astroturfed left, which is being orchestrated and trained by the Obama administration and its media minions to attack Americans who still believe in America's founding principles.
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Swanson's point 11 was "do not get Astroturfed" - which, he explained, not only meant refusing to work in coalition with the Right-wing "teabagger" groups but (once again) breaking ranks with mainstream liberals in D.C. "If your union is asking the President or Congress what to lobby for, you're being used as a prop," he said.
Indybay newswire 2010
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While I waited, I got shots of the Astroturfed weight room ...
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NYT Astroturfed by "Conservation Group" in Deepwater Horizon Spill. kfogel no comments, no recommends
TPMCafe 2010
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