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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A makeshift; a substitute.
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- noun A
makeshift ;substitute .
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Examples
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I shall now hasten on, knowing that you will not love me less for having told you how glad I am to bewith you and when I cannot bewith you, how I rejoice to hearfrom you - and when either fails, how torturous and painful the interval
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,March 11, 1857 2008
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So it may bewith the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday.
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What do you think the effect will be on consumption and the environment will bewith their population?
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The standard deduction for a married couple is much higher than it used to bewith the elimination of the marriage penalty, so there are homeowners who don't itemize.
Why I love the new Democratic Congress! Ann Althouse 2006
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If you are compelled to return before we see you, which Ishall much regret, cannot you return on some other vessel,we are most uncomfortable on this & would like yourboat—I know you would agree with me & we will bewith you in six hours+ at City Point.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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If you are compelled to return before we see you, which Ishall much regret, cannot you return on some other vessel,we are most uncomfortable on this & would like yourboat—I know you would agree with me & we will bewith you in six hours+ at City Point.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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If you are compelled to return before we see you, which Ishall much regret, cannot you return on some other vessel,we are most uncomfortable on this & would like yourboat—I know you would agree with me & we will bewith you in six hours+ at City Point.
LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001
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Gregory had friends at school and in the neighborhood; but, Vanilla Simmons says, "he always wanted to bewith Datondra."
Chicago Reader 2010
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There are many like us, parents who have come to bewith their children and grandchildren for a while.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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First was when Peter, James and John could not keep awake with him for an hour while he went off to pray in Gethsemane -- here he was about to die and they couldn't even bewith him for an hour?
QuakerQuaker.org 2008
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