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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mainline .
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Examples
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Because it is lucrative, our multinationals offer them extremely low wage labor [sic] that cannot be turned down. blames this kind of now rampant conditioning of students by progressives on philosophical elites at the turn of the twentieth century - notably those who "mainlined" John Dewey's
Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online Candace de Russy 2010
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REVIEW SUMMARY: A mainlined dose of beautifully rendered classic SF.
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Gordy had on his hands a young performer who had mainlined every great 45 by Ray Charles, James Brown, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Clyde McPhatter, Smokey, Marvin and everybody else who mattered, held the high they produced and could output that potent mixture into his own otherworldly style on record, and more amazingly on stage.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Gordy had on his hands a young performer who had mainlined every great 45 by Ray Charles, James Brown, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Clyde McPhatter, Smokey, Marvin and everybody else who mattered, held the high they produced and could output that potent mixture into his own otherworldly style on record, and more amazingly on stage.
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Basically, I lay down on the sofa, and mainlined carbs.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: How This 60-Year-Old Yogini Lost 40 lbs After Spinal Fusion Surgery Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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And when it was too much, he mainlined that China White in such quantities that he knew damn well it would kill him.
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YOU Matt, with your fearless devotion to revealed truth, have patiently and unalterably mainlined the notion of an increasingly unavoidable doomsday scenario directly into my brain.
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REVIEW SUMMARY: A mainlined dose of beautifully rendered classic SF.
January 2010 2010
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This cognitive relativist stuff is stuff Obama mainlined in college and at law school.
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Basically, I lay down on the sofa, and mainlined carbs.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: How This 60-Year-Old Yogini Lost 40 lbs After Spinal Fusion Surgery Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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