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- verb Present participle of
defer .
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Examples
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Nancy: When transferring influence, begin deferring publicly to the new mentee.
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In stating that the Court, in deferring to private property rights, will be trashing the environment, Wittes is merely repeating one of the urban legends of the statist left, without a shred of evidence.
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In stating that the Court, in deferring to private property rights, will be trashing the environment, Wittes is merely repeating one of the urban legends of the statist left, without a shred of evidence.
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She was not alone in deferring to Nkotassane's ceramic expertise, for her mother regularly had women from neighboring homesteads dropping in to watch her work and to seek her advice.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The genuinely unpopular excesses of the Warren Court in deferring to the rights of accused criminals triggered the law-and-order-oriented presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in 1968.
Supreme Irony 2004
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The genuinely unpopular excesses of the Warren Court in deferring to the rights of accused criminals triggered the law-and-order-oriented presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in 1968.
Supreme Irony 2004
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Why is Larkin deferring $3 million of his annual $9 million salary?
USATODAY.com - After a long, dark winter, Santo walks in sunshine 2002
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Now I can understand it, he was like a man who had received a precious, interesting, and long-expected letter, and who lays it down before him and purposely refrains from opening it, turning it over and over in his hands, examining the envelope and the seal, going to see to things in another room, in short deferring the interesting moment of perusal, knowing that it cannot escape him.
A Raw Youth 2003
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Actually, I’m surprised none of the comments mention Kennedy once again deferring to international law as part of the basis for this decision.
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Sonicfrog: Actually, I’m surprised none of the comments mention Kennedy once again deferring to international law as part of the basis for this decision.
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