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- verb Present participle of
kick-start .
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Examples
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The federal government has gone into record debt in the name of kick-starting a recovery that is still mediocre.
The New Lackluster 2011
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When he learns his true love, model/pop star Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), is in Los Angeles, Aldous makes it his quest to win her back … right before kick-starting his world domination.
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Cridland said public-private partnerships are the key to kick-starting investment projects, despite the controversy surrounding the private finance initiative, which has been the mainstay of private involvement in public infrastructure investment and was roundly condemned as overly costly and inefficient by two recent parliamentary reports.
CBI says Britain's ageing road and rail networks are damaging investment 2011
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Already, some rightwing voices have called for the scrapping of the minimum wage, and a bonfire of other regulation supporting workers' rights, as the price of kick-starting the economy.
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We are the f**cking generation that's kick-starting a new battle on cancer.
Yael Cohen: What Provokes Even the Mildest of Towns? Yael Cohen 2010
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When he learns his true love is in California, Aldous makes it his quest to win her back … right before kick-starting his world domination.
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The haunt and the beat grooved a place inside that began kick-starting a shake that booty feeling as you walked toward even more mood lights, caverns and bodies undulating with an appetite for more …
Sangrita and sangria 2009
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We are the f**cking generation that's kick-starting a new battle on cancer.
Yael Cohen: What Provokes Even the Mildest of Towns? Yael Cohen 2010
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Mr. Davutoglu also said his government was kick-starting efforts to get Iran to return to international negotiations aimed at containing its nuclear program.
Pressure Mounts in Washington to Launch Aid Effort Jay Solomon 2012
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We are the f**cking generation that's kick-starting a new battle on cancer.
Yael Cohen: What Provokes Even the Mildest of Towns? Yael Cohen 2010
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