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- verb Present participle of
dot .
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Examples
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Alberto Gonzales and company are so busy destroying civl rights (setting race/gender relations back 100 years) that they’ve been derelict in dotting their “i’s and crossing their “t” s in terrorism cases.
Think Progress » FISA Judges: Bush Spying Program Threatens Legitimate Anti-Terrorism Investigations 2005
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When you're shooting downhill at 30 miles an hour, defying ice and moguls, it can be tough, hazardous and just plain stupid to try to decipher the myriad designer labels dotting the guy who's about to cut you off.
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It's something called the Airman's Information Manual and the dotting is a little -- oh, good, you can see very well now.
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And you could do the subtitling as part of this if you prefer by "dotting" them onto the appropriate Trim line.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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"We clearly want to build new nuclear power stations in the UK; we have a shortlist of sites that we're looking at at the moment and this is kind of dotting the i's and crossing the t's" if we decided to build a station at Oldbury, a spokesman for EON UK told AFP.
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2008
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In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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While I recognize that this is well in advance of our hearing in December, I cannot impress upon you the urgency of crossing our Ts and dotting our Is now.
Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011
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There were other domes dotting the black and red surface of the planet.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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There were other domes dotting the black and red surface of the planet.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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