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- verb Present participle of
excise .
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Examples
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And it ends with a flat-out indictment of the failure of the Labour Government in excising “the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange” from its party constitution in 1995.
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And it ends with a flat-out indictment of the failure of the Labour Government in excising “the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange” from its party constitution in 1995.
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I believe I have read that the editor’s defense is that the NYT was justified in excising the actual theme — the real meaning — of the letter because there was balance provided by * another* soldier’s words in the same article.
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What do you mean by "excising" the cancer of capitalism? by Don Smith on Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 at 9: 21: 49 PM
Capitalism as cancer, and the new economy that could emerge from its eradication 2009
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The clove's uniform creamy colour went all the way through as the inner bud hadn't yet formed, so there were no green bits in it and because it was so fresh there were no mouldy old bits that needed excising which is fairly typical of older garlic.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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The clove's uniform creamy colour went all the way through as the inner bud hadn't yet formed, so there were no green bits in it and because it was so fresh there were no mouldy old bits that needed excising which is fairly typical of older garlic.
At My Table 2006
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Others he retained, notably the policy of "excising" offshore Australian islands from the country's migration zone.
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I became a copy editor and a news editor and have passed the intervening decades fixing the work of others, excising cliches like "The rest, as they say, is history."
Media Maxine 2009
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Plus, this films transplants the whole Vampires Vs. Werewolves shtick out of the modern big guns, fast cars world (thankfully excising the over-done bullet time slo-mo) and brings it into the Swords and Armor realm (which means we may get one of the requisite action bits with thousands of arrows falling from the sky).
Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert@the Movies!A Quick Look At The Weekend’s Cinematic Offerings! 2009
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This was a humanitarian effort designed to prevent a slaughter and weaken Gaddafi to the point that the rebels have a fair shot at excising the guy.
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