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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fawn .
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Examples
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But a few years ago, I'd heard so many ugly stories about treatment of the people who aren't quite-important-enough that I finally had to call the fawned-over conference out in one of my highest-read BusinessWeek columns ever, all but guaranteeing I'll never be let in its hallowed doors.
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But a few years ago, I'd heard so many ugly stories about treatment of the people who aren't quite-important-enough that I finally had to call the fawned-over conference out in one of my highest-read BusinessWeek columns ever, all but guaranteeing I'll never be let in its hallowed doors.
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At one point on the tour a visiting reporter from Sky News marveled to the press corps at the way Canadians "fawned" over the Queen, an elderly foreigner from Britain.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Is it appropriate to say our visiting troupe of commissioners "fawned" over a mouse?
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The Judges Say: The judges all fawned over the fact that James was emotional, even shedding a tear or two at the end of the song.
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When they first arrived in Washington, the Tea Party freshman class was fawned over and adored.
Michael B. Keegan: The Terrible Twos: The Tea Party Throws a Tantrum Michael B. Keegan 2011
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He has been endorsed by influential conservatives, was fawned over by superstar commentator Glenn Beck on Fox News and has a deeply energized base of supporters.
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With his black turban and golden gun hanging down below his long gray beard, Mr. Mojadidi was pictured blithely using a remote to switch TV channels as a scantily clad woman with a blue burqa covering her face fawned over her man.
This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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They were fawned over at Westminster Abbey, greeted warmly at No. 10 Downing St. and, finally, lauded at the first state dinner thrown here for a U.S. president in eight years.
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They were fawned over at Westminster Abbey, greeted warmly at No. 10 Downing St. and, finally, lauded at the first state dinner thrown here for a U.S. president in eight years.
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