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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
apostrophize .
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Examples
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So, wait: we get “symbolize,” “representations,” and even, wonder of wonders, the correctly apostrophized which is to say, not apostrophized at all “its counterparts,” but then there’s “beutifle?”
Regretsy – Cat Fight 2010
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It is no accident therefore that this body of work is liberally festooned with skulls; populated by zombies, snarling wolves, vipers, black cats, and gestures towards a sort of apostrophized occultism.
Psychedelic Denver 2009
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It is no accident therefore that this body of work is liberally festooned with skulls; populated by zombies, snarling wolves, vipers, black cats, and gestures towards a sort of apostrophized occultism.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The column was replete with properly positioned apostrophes, including this multi-apostrophized sentence: "And his books did contain valuable news: of the Wolfowitz axis 'early push to take on Iraq, of the president's messianic view of himself as God's chosen warrior, of the Powell-Rumsfeld conflicts that led to the war's catastrophic execution."
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis 2010
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Then, too, beyond this cross-lexical effect, there is the adjective's quiet anagrammaticization in the immediately following line, where "silent entangler" telescopes under conversion to "listener" — sleep apostrophized as if overhearing its own wordplay.
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Oudolf has made some knowing winks to New York City's indigenous (or ubiquitous) plant life, including his use of sumac, a shrub with compound leaves reminiscent of Ailanthus altissima, the weedlike "tree of heaven" apostrophized in Betty Smith's best-selling novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn of 1943 as an archetypal urban survivor accustomed to the toughest settings.
Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009
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She apostrophized Theodule: — “Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?”
Les Miserables 2008
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He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor.
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Mr. Siegel apostrophized, referring to the company's CEO.
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As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the
Les Miserables 2008
manilamac commented on the word apostrophized
The prospects for the coming year looked good, certainly better than they had at the same time twelve months ago. As he apostrophized the coming year of 1973 in his memoirs, it was to begin "with glittering promise; rarely had a Presidential term started with such bright foreign policy prospects."
KISSINGER
1973, the Crucial Year
By Alistair Horne
August 5, 2009