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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.

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Examples

  • But then he called - what we call lawyered up so he has not taken a lie detecter test and basically he ` s not talking to the police much anymore.

    CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2007 2007

  • I understand this editorial, and Ernst's review, was repeatedly "lawyered" before publication: so I would like to say very well done to my learned friends for approving the text which appeared.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jack of Kent 2009

  • I understand this editorial, and Ernst's review, was repeatedly "lawyered" before publication: so I would like to say very well done to my learned friends for approving the text which appeared.

    BMJ: The "Plethora" Has Been Completely Demolished Jack of Kent 2009

  • You can bet this one was one of the most heavily "lawyered"

    CJR 2009

  • You can bet this one was one of the most heavily "lawyered"

    CJR 2009

  • And final results in some of the most important contests may be days, week, or even months away, due to expected problems in counting absentee, provisional and write-in votes, and the inevitable call for recounts from campaigns that are lawyered up to the gills.

    Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • And final results in some of the most important contests may be days, week, or even months away, due to expected problems in counting absentee, provisional and write-in votes, and the inevitable call for recounts from campaigns that are lawyered up to the gills.

    Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The Florida recount had been lawyered up and judged over.

    Harry Shearer: Who's Illegitimate? The Presidents. Who Says? Harry Shearer 2011

  • First it was she found true love with Neil Schon of Journey and now that she lawyered up, they are grasping for a way out so she doesn't have to pay up her side of our financial obligations, Tareq told me.

    Michaele And Tareq Salahi Divorce: Former 'Real Housewife' Lied To Everyone, Says Estranged Husband 2011

  • And final results in some of the most important contests may be days, week, or even months away, due to expected problems in counting absentee, provisional and write-in votes, and the inevitable call for recounts from campaigns that are lawyered up to the gills.

    Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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