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- verb Present participle of
denominate .
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Examples
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Nevertheless, the idea of denominating the years serially in a single era count, such as the Olympic dating from 776 B.C. and the Seleucid from 311 B.C., did not originate in the Christian era until it was introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in A.D. 525, and the
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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Today, the U.S. dollar stands alone as the reserve currency of the world economy--the currency that nations use for investing their own reserves and for denominating commodity and other transactions.
David Paul: Oil Price Swings as a Dollar Hedge Pose a New Threat to Our Fiscal Future David Paul 2011
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The text denominating a little town like Intercourse in Pennsylvania takes up almost as much size as Philadelphia.
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Instead, the converse is true: given that Oresme rejects the traditional view that accidents are accidental forms, he must avoid the use of substantives in denominating the ontological status of accidents and thus quasi-automatically arrives at formulations that are characteristic of the theory of complexly signifiables.
Nicole Oresme Kirschner, Stefan 2009
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This is rumors, which have been denied by oil-producing countries, that they are thinking of abandoning the dollar as the main currency for denominating the price of a barrel of oil.
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What is the true denominating currency here; the one limited factor.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2009
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Based on research Professor Epley conducted with colleagues from Harvard, Epley concluded that denominating the money taxpayers will receive "rebates" - instead of "tax bonuses" - decreases the chances that Americans will spend the money, which is the opposite of the intent of the refund.
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Mr. Putin earlier called for denominating transactions for Russian oil and gas exports in rubles.
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Based on research Professor Epley conducted with colleagues from Harvard, Epley concluded that denominating the money taxpayers will receive "rebates" - instead of "tax bonuses" - decreases the chances that Americans will spend the money, which is the opposite of the intent of the refund.
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The historical stability of the US government, economy and, most importantly, its financial markets has made the abundantly supplied dollar the preferred medium of denominating trade and financial exchange.
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