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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adorn .
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Examples
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The congressman, he said, can claim credit for cutting budgets while his name adorns government-financed projects.
As GOP slashes budget, lawmakers who built careers on earmarks must re-brand 2011
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In Florida, his name adorns a drawbridge, a marine science complex and a military depot.
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In Florida, his name adorns a drawbridge, a marine science complex and a military depot.
As GOP slashes budget, lawmakers who built careers on earmarks must re-brand 2011
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His name adorns an exemplar of those traditions, one of the 33 cast-iron jockey statues that usually stand guard on the front steps.
NYT > Home Page By GLENN COLLINS 2011
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The hospital, located on Garth Brooks Boulevard in Yukon, Oklahoma, where the singer grew up and where his name adorns the town's water tower, never built the women's center and never spent the $500,000 donation, court testimony showed.
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The same title adorns the essay by her co-curator, British sculptor
The Guardian World News Adrian Searle 2011
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The same title adorns the essay by her co-curator, British sculptor
The Guardian World News Adrian Searle 2011
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Byrd won't be forgotten in West Virginia (especially since his name adorns more than a few buildings, highways, parks, etc.) or in the Senate, where his mastery of the body's arcane rules made him a leader.
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It must be exciting hanging out with the mayor on the first day of the US Open, where your name adorns the Tennis Center.
Bloomberg on the Importance of the Billie Jean King Endorsement 2009
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It must be exciting hanging out with the mayor on the first day of the US Open, where your name adorns the Tennis Center.
Bloomberg on the Importance of the Billie Jean King Endorsement 2009
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