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- verb Present participle of
forereach .
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Examples
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The letter further reads that with the extension of Forest Rights Act to Jammu and Kashmir state it will have a multiple, forereaching and positive impact on states economy and will defiantly redress the "historical injustice" committed against Gujjars- the major dwellers and conservators of forests.
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So we set a little sail, and commenced forereaching slowly on our course.
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The Java kept the weather-gage tenaciously, forereaching a little, and whenever the __Constitution_ luffed up to close, [Footnote: Log of _Constitution_.] the former tried to rake her.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Soley represents the _Java_ as forereaching on the _Constitution_;
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Note: [35.1] For do but ask yourself, my dear Charlie, "lovingly leaning over towards him," I rest it with your own heart now, whether such a forereaching motive as Charlemont hinted he had acted on in his change -- whether such a motive, I say, were a sort of one at all justified by the nature of human society?
The Confidence-Man 1857
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"I had by this time joined the fleet, tranquil enough in appearance, though inwardly I was fuming at the prospect of my two prizes being taken by the frigate; and, as I perceived that my ship sailed much better than those of the enemy who were near me, I kept away little by little, at the same time forereaching on them.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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I think it is due to their forereaching science, which assures them that this world has entered upon the last stage of its existence which began with the arrest of its axial rotation, and which will end with the total extinction of life through the evaporation of all the waters under the never-setting sun, and the consequent complete desiccation of this now so beautiful land. "
A Columbus of Space 1890
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"I rest it with your own heart now, whether such a forereaching motive as Charlemont hinted he had acted on in his change -- whether such a motive, I say, were a sort of one at all justified by the nature of human society?
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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“We're forereaching too near the Hog's Back, Capt.
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"We're forereaching too near the Hog's Back, Capt.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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