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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fawn.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2010

  • 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.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2010

  • 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

  • Is it appropriate to say our visiting troupe of commissioners "fawned" over a mouse?

    marconews.com Stories 2010

  • 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.

    American Idol Episode Recap: The Top 9 Perform 2011

  • 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

  • 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.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, April 26, 2010 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Obamas get royal treatment in Britain 2011

  • 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.

    Obamas get royal treatment in Britain 2011

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