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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
immolate .
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Examples
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Clarke joked about that yesterday in tickling the ribs of a critic who had once reported his 'inexorable slide into irrelevance', a beautiful phrase immolated in the post-win victory exchanges.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In a superb essay also published in Making and Meaning Timothy Anglin Burgard recounts Lobdell's experience, in April of 1945, of entering a barn in Gardelegen, Germany where Nazi troops had immolated more than 1,000 concentration camp internees.
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011
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The dozen or more protesters that self-immolated in Egypt didn't do it for the tweets.
Dave Pell: Egypt, Twitter and the Straw Man Revolution Dave Pell 2011
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The dozen or more protesters that self-immolated in Egypt didn't do it for the tweets.
Dave Pell: Egypt, Twitter and the Straw Man Revolution Dave Pell 2011
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The dozen or more protesters that self-immolated in Egypt didn't do it for the tweets.
Dave Pell: Egypt, Twitter and the Straw Man Revolution Dave Pell 2011
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Seppukoo was founded a couple years ago to assist you in your virtual suicide - simply log in and your Facebook page is ritually immolated post by post.
Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution Claire Gordon 2011
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No matter what the LAS configuration, would an Orion in a sidemount Shuttle configuration stand any chance at all of surviving a Challenger-type accident where the ET gets immolated almost immediately?
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Seppukoo was founded a couple years ago to assist you in your virtual suicide - simply log in and your Facebook page is ritually immolated post by post.
Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution Claire Gordon 2011
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In a superb essay also published in Making and Meaning Timothy Anglin Burgard recounts Lobdell's experience, in April of 1945, of entering a barn in Gardelegen, Germany where Nazi troops had immolated more than 1,000 concentration camp internees.
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011
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I have gathered wind-storm deadfall to build the pyre upon which this laptop will be ritually immolated in celebration of the abandonment or "completion," as people unfamiliar with writing would call it of the endeavor.
The Writing Team Joel Achenbach 2011
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