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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
abide .
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Examples
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Biden, asked later whether he thought the generals had bought into this approach or had just abided by it, said that "maybe a couple abided, but I think they bought into it."
Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President Jules Witcover 2010
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Biden, asked later whether he thought the generals had bought into this approach or had just abided by it, said that "maybe a couple abided, but I think they bought into it."
Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President Jules Witcover 2010
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We always paid taxes, we always abided by the law, and we always lived just as normal citizens would have lived.
Saad Nabeel: A Q&A With Deported Student Saad Nabeel: ICE Abuses, Strip Searching, and Cell Confinement Saad Nabeel 2010
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Biden, asked later whether he thought the generals had bought into this approach or had just abided by it, said that "maybe a couple abided, but I think they bought into it."
Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President Jules Witcover 2010
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We always paid taxes, we always abided by the law, and we always lived just as normal citizens would have lived.
Saad Nabeel: A Q&A With Deported Student Saad Nabeel: ICE Abuses, Strip Searching, and Cell Confinement Saad Nabeel 2010
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Each country has it own laws, whether it is immigration, taxation, terrorism, etc. which MUST be abided by local and foreigners alike.
Global Voices in English » Japan: Filipino girl sees her parents deported 2009
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A placer camp he knew was ephemeral, while a quartz camp abided, and he kept a score of men in the quest for months.
Chapter XI 2010
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It would be unfair to say that Indians as a whole have simply abided by the situation.
Rio Helmi: Anna Hazare: Savior or Destroyer of Democracy? Rio Helmi 2011
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Again Saxon felt the loving benediction that abided in his face, his eyes, his hands -- toward which she involuntarily dropped her eyes.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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We always paid taxes, we always abided by the law, and we always lived just as normal citizens would have lived.
Saad Nabeel: A Q&A With Deported Student Saad Nabeel: ICE Abuses, Strip Searching, and Cell Confinement Saad Nabeel 2010
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