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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of duet.

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Examples

  • "But you know, I duetted with Sinatra once – and I never met him either."

    Cyndi Lauper: rhapsody in blues Alfred Hickling 2010

  • Among the grand things I learned from Imagine… Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle and Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet, the two best factual programmes of the week, were: there was blood from polyps such a pretty word left on the microphone after Harry Nilsson and John Lennon duetted – spatted – to be louder/croakier on their druggy "Many Rivers to Cross", and both voices dimmed hence.

    Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve – review 2011

  • In a stage career that began at the tender age of 9, the multilingual crooner has duetted with everyone from today's rap artists to Frank Sinatra and, of course, Johnny Hallyday.

    The Formidable Nouveautés of Fall Lennox Morrison 2011

  • This was the time when Marvin Gaye first duetted with Tammi Terrell, Stevie Wonder was emerging as a major talent, The Temptations were coming on strong under producer Norman Whitfield, and The Supremes went glam-tastic with “The Happening” and the quasi-psych masterpiece, “Reflections.”

    2008 October : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • This was the time when Marvin Gaye first duetted with Tammi Terrell, Stevie Wonder was emerging as a major talent, The Temptations were coming on strong under producer Norman Whitfield, and The Supremes went glam-tastic with “The Happening” and the quasi-psych masterpiece, “Reflections.”

    Weekly Mishmash: October 19-25 : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • Of course it was also a #1 hit for Mariah Carey, who duetted on the tune with Trey Lorenz for MTV Unplugged.

    Michael Giltz: American Idol -- Lucky 13: The Results Are In 2009

  • In other words, he duetted with a guy on a love song, making Simon's joke actually sort of funny again.

    Michael Giltz: American Idol Returns -- Phoenix 2009

  • Can you actually believe this man duetted with Rage Against the Machine?

    Snoop Dogg torn between Obama, Clinton 2008

  • The horns — Michael Brecker on sax, Randy Brecker and Jon Faddis on trumpet, and Dave Bargeron on trombone — were overdubbed in New York, and Tina Turner and I duetted live on “Tearing Us Apart.”

    Eric Clapton's Salvation Road Clapton, Eric 2007

  • At midnight, the ships in the offing in Belfast Lough all sounded their foghorns... at once melancholic and festive as two ships duetted on an interval of a perfect fifth.

    virtue and venison 2006

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