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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fizzle .
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Examples
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Yes, providing for a family is something we all can identify with, but the rich frat boy, whose ultra-rich and consequentially disconnected from the common masses 'plight poppy's attempt to gain a second term fizzled out because he didn't know how to use a credit card, couldn't!
Who is left to kill? 2007
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Seven flights of fancy that fizzled is an article on MSNBC about 7 'technologies' that haven't been realized, yet.
November 2003 2003
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Seven flights of fancy that fizzled is an article on MSNBC about 7 'technologies' that haven't been realized, yet.
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His bid to win the Cup title fizzled when he got off to a slow start in the Chase, but he tied Sam Ard's record with 10 Nationwide wins and had 57 top-10 finishes all year -- 36 in 48 starts in Nationwide and Cup.
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Overnight, the idea fizzled, and the Reagan - Bush team went on to victory in the fall over Jimmy Carter and then victory in the Cold War over the Soviets.
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The pov shift was jarring, and the beginning kind of fizzled out without going anywhere – what was all that musing about electronic mony * for*?
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Then, the movement kind of fizzled out from embarrassment.
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The story line was good but it just kind of fizzled out at the end.
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Our friendship kind of fizzled out -- he wrote to me and asked if I could send him money.
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, 1963-2008 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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About two weeks ago, we had a 400-point rally and that kind of fizzled out and went away.
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