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- noun Plural form of
gear . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gear .
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Examples
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Under the gears is a carbon fiber layer which really sets them off.
Boing Boing 2007
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These twin gears are the main reason why the juice produced is of such high quality.
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Back to school means changing gears from a relaxing summer to buckling down and studying.
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The twin gears have recesses within them that give the gears a sharper cut, this reduces and eliminates the chance of the machines clogging.
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As McCain gears up for the toughest re-election campaign of his career, he has abandoned his support for cutting Medicare and Medicaid by some $1.3 trillion over 10 years and has grown increasingly protective of the government-sponsored program.
Think Progress » McCain To Propose Amendment Prohibiting Changes To Medicare Using Reconciliation 2010
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He is 100% connected with DC insiders, taking money directly from the main gears that keep the Republican political machine moving.
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The thing that really grinds my gears is that I just got into mashups and have just started monkeying around with podcasting, and now suddenly everyone is doing it.
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Defense, after all, wins championships, and that's still the staple of a league that shifted gears from the Showtime offenses of the 1980s to the slowdown defenses of the '90s.
USATODAY.com - Suns ready to rise for playoff offensive 2005
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This project is a total shift in gears for me, which is proving quite helpful to my overall creative process.
April 8th, 2005 2005
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When, as thy fav'rite pass'd, thou stood'st in gears,
To a dead Jack-Ass 1803
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