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  • verb Present participle of involve.

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Examples

  • Atwood also addresses the controversy surrounding her rejection of the SF label; she says it's a misunderstanding stemming from her very narrow definition of the term, a definition involving gizmos and skintight unitards.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • I chose the title involving global warming because their argument seems somewhat similar to the argument that we can't fully explain the 20th century global warming by the first natural model we write down so it must be caused by the first "unnatural" but convenient effect we think about, namely the greenhouse effect.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • I'm far more offended by minstrelizing robots with no plausible connection to hip hop by any imaginative stretch and the use of mudflap a derogatory term involving the assumption of a dirty and uncivilized penis than a series of black monsters set in Africa of all places.

    Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Steven Barnes 2009

  • Updated 3: 46: Lilly Ledbetter, a Supreme Court plaintiff so famous she appeared at the Democratic National Convention in August, just made her first appearance in a question by Chairman Leahy, along with Savannah Redding, the plaintiff in the case this term involving a strip search of her when she was 13 years old.

    Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing (Day 3) 2009

  • _______________________Chevy Chase, MD: The newspapers quoted leading civil rights lawyers as pessimistic at the conclusion of the oral arguments in two cases argued this term involving whether high schools could consider race in deciding which schools students could attend.

    Transcript: Civil Rights and the Law 2007

  • Because achieving a bestseller with a title involving poetry would be more difficult.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • So when I read the notice of a new title involving retired heroes and villains in a community, it felt like it had the soon-to-be-patented Simone quirk of humor that makes her other writing so enjoyable.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Fred Perry 2006

  • I quite understand, having read up on it that "corporate ethnography" is more a term involving a corporation's own use of ethnography to do something like determine how its customers are adapting to a product.

    Anti Anti-Anecdotalism 2006

  • So when I read the notice of a new title involving retired heroes and villains in a community, it felt like it had the soon-to-be-patented Simone quirk of humor that makes her other writing so enjoyable.

    Comic Musings for 12/5 Fred Perry 2006

  • He writes two important opinions in this term involving the constitutionality of the Social Security Act. LAMB: You say that Justice McReynolds told John Knox when he was in the house, no smoking, no lady friends.

    The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR�s Washington 2002

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