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- noun Plural form of
host . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
host .
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Examples
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In the US, I'd probably just bring a nice bottle of champagne and flowers, but one of the hosts is a recovering alcoholic, so that's out.
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Remembering that one of my hosts is the Empire Club, I feel that I should say one word about what Sir Winston Churchill delighted to call the "British Commonwealth and Empire".
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(Over the holidays, Charmin hosts 20 "clean, comfortable" bathrooms in Times Square.)
How to find a bathroom in Times Square—and win $50,000 too 2010
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This immunity for hosts is a sharp distinction from the offline world.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Communications Decency Act of 1996 Meets the Closed Frontier 2010
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The reason regular viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report remain so loyal to the hosts is because they can clearly sense that beneath the jokes beats a genuine, unironic heart, an unshakable belief shared by both men that there really are “better angels of our nature:” honesty, integrity, intelligence, compassion.
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England's World Cup record as hosts is currently 100%.
The more I hear of the World Cup bid the more I like bog-snorkelling Paul Wilson 2010
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This immunity for hosts is a sharp distinction from the offline world.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Communications Decency Act of 1996 Meets the Closed Frontier 2010
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The reason regular viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report remain so loyal to the hosts is because they can clearly sense that beneath the jokes beats a genuine, unironic heart, an unshakable belief shared by both men that there really are “better angels of our nature:” honesty, integrity, intelligence, compassion.
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They switch bodies with hosts from the intended space or time destination.
H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror 2009
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They did, after all, drop their hosts from the rafters like Ziegfeld showgirls, while draping the proscenium in tinsel lights and the stage in drapes.
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