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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deep-six .
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Examples
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But the rest need to be deep-sixed or put on probation.
Dear Barbara, Your A-List Needs Work Joe Queenan 2011
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A provision to protect streams from mountaintop mining's contaminated spoil would be deep-sixed.
Edward Flattau: Mitt's First Day Edward Flattau 2011
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Ford Motor Co. deep-sixed its plush-riding Lincoln Town Car earlier this year, to the dismay of limo drivers nationwide.
New Lexus Puts the Comfy 'Land Yacht' to Rest Joseph B. White 2011
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Kelly has frozen out all those who disagree with him, deep-sixed corruption cases against favored officers particularly in the Intelligence Division, and personally violated NYPD rules that forbid officers from accepting more than $50 in gratuities by pressuring the Police Foundation to foot his dues and meals at the Harvard Club -- a tab that by 2009 had reached $30,000.
Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Too Much Respect Len Levitt 2011
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This year, after Mr. Obama brought bin Laden to justice -- quite rightly in my view -- and literally deep-sixed the remains in the Indian Ocean, the Pew Researchers last week reported that America is approved of by just 12% of Pakistanis.
Ken Blackwell: Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic Error Ken Blackwell 2011
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Rep. Henry Waxman tried last week to craft a bipartisan compromise on Net Neutrality only to have his bill deep-sixed by hostile Republicans on the House Commerce Committee, who are eager to smother the open Internet should voters hand them a majority in November.
Timothy Karr: Genachowski's Choice Timothy Karr 2010
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Flash forward to last week when Free Press campaign director Tim Karr claimed with stratospheric chutzpah that Congressman Waxman was trying to "craft a bipartisan compromise on Net Neutrality only to have his bill deep-sixed by hostile Republicans."
Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality Update: Are Inmates Running the Asylum? Rick Carnes 2010
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Were American politicians held to the ludicrously stringent standards being applied to Ms. O 'Donnell today, some of the most glorious figures in American history would have had their careers deep-sixed before they even got off the ground.
Who 2010
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Rep. Henry Waxman tried last week to craft a bipartisan compromise on Net Neutrality only to have his bill deep-sixed by hostile Republicans on the House Commerce Committee, who are eager to smother the open Internet should voters hand them a majority in November.
Timothy Karr: Genachowski's Choice Timothy Karr 2010
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This year, after Mr. Obama brought bin Laden to justice -- quite rightly in my view -- and literally deep-sixed the remains in the Indian Ocean, the Pew Researchers last week reported that America is approved of by just 12% of Pakistanis.
Ken Blackwell: Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic Error Ken Blackwell 2011
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