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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.

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Examples

  • Taking second overall in the Grand Prix and winning the U.S. title jumpstarted Cheever's season a year ago, as he went on to win World Cup silver twice and finish No. 3 overall in the world.

    SI.com 2012

  • "That kind of jumpstarted us in terms of offense," Lambert said.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • "That kind of jumpstarted us in terms of offense," Lambert said.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • "That kind of jumpstarted us in terms of offense," Lambert said.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • "That kind of jumpstarted us in terms of offense," Lambert said.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • "That kind of jumpstarted us in terms of offense," Lambert said.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • Jay Thompson is an old friend and an amazing poet and a bit of a songwriter that kind of jumpstarted the project, we just wrote a bunch of songs together and one of them, this song,

    Three Imaginary Girls - Seattle's sparkly indie-pop press Billy Corazon 2009

  • Has civilzation been jumpstarted time and again by aliens after world cataclismic events?

    SF Signal is Looking for Mind Meld Topics - What Do You Want To See? 2009

  • Two decades later it was the State Quarter program that jumpstarted a moribund market.

    Aging Baby Boomers and Rare Gold Coin Prices : Coin Collecting News 2010

  • Among the projects that will be jumpstarted with this new funding are the Midtown Tunnel tube in Norfolk, the extension of HOV/HOT Lanes on I95/395 and the widening of I-66 in Northern Virginia, work on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, and the widening and improving of multiple sections of Route 58 in southern and western Virginia.

    UPDATED: Key Democratic panel approves McDonnell's transportation plan Rosalind S. Helderman 2011

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  • with habanero salsa, of course.

    September 21, 2009