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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
jump-start .
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Examples
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For over the course of a six-decade career, Frankenthaler jump-started American painting not once, but twice.
Pushing Past Abstraction Eric Gibson 2011
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He was pissed at first, but kept listening and there he was, deep into the music via his headphones when he suddenly heard the Dick Dale song “Miserlou” and he jump-started his portable recording tools on his computer . . . while we are doing about 150 miles per hour.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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This woefully sad excuse for our once-wonderful democracy has jump-started inquiring minds.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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This woefully sad excuse for our once-wonderful democracy has jump-started inquiring minds.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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This woefully sad excuse for our once-wonderful democracy has jump-started inquiring minds.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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In fact, the Brazilian government has consistently played a central role in economic planning and investment since the 1930s, when Brazilians jump-started industrialization and sought economic autonomy in response to worldwide depression.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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World War II jump-started New York's economy, and a few benefits trickled uptown to Harlem, but from the Depression to the 1990s times were hard, never more so than during "the fiscal crisis that engulfed New York City in the mid-1970s."
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World War II jump-started New York's economy, and a few benefits trickled uptown to Harlem, but from the Depression to the 1990s times were hard, never more so than during "the fiscal crisis that engulfed New York City in the mid-1970s."
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"The microbe-rich concoction jump-started life," Mr. Sinskey said.
Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure? jaY MCINERNEY 2010
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This woefully sad excuse for our once-wonderful democracy has jump-started inquiring minds.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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