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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
meddle .
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Examples
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Yes, Harry Reid got lucky that Sarah Palin meddled in his race and gave him the opportunity to run against a crazy extremist.
Jane Hamsher: Top 10 Surprise Election Night Losers Jane Hamsher 2010
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Yes, Harry Reid got lucky that Sarah Palin meddled in his race and gave him the opportunity to run against a crazy extremist.
Jane Hamsher: Top 10 Surprise Election Night Losers Jane Hamsher 2010
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Yes, Harry Reid got lucky that Sarah Palin meddled in his race and gave him the opportunity to run against a crazy extremist.
Jane Hamsher: Top 10 Surprise Election Night Losers Jane Hamsher 2010
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Every man "voted," as they called it -- that is to say meddled with public affairs -- until at length, it was discovered that what is everybody's business is nobody's, and that the "Republic" (so the absurd thing was called) was without a government at all.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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A friend and I were seriously planning on going but this ice storm has kind of meddled with our plans.
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Plenty of countries rightly 'meddled' in the affairs of the United States when they saw black children being blown down by powerful water hoses and attacked by dogs at civil rights marches.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Spectator of the Free World: Obama and Iran 2009
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Rarely, however, do discussions of this fact proceed beyond a verbal slapping ourselves on the wrists for having "meddled" to further our own interests.
Jon Santiago: Revisiting American Involvement in El Salvador: The Massacre at El Mozote 2009
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Bizos said Ben Menashe "meddled" in the U.S. presidential vote in 1980 and Australia's 1986 elections.
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I kind of meddled in his life 8 years ago and made things better, then a lot worse (I'm sure I'll mention it in some old journal entry I'll post later) but we're probably both past that.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2003
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Her bearing, however, had a dignity and a decision which would make even Mrs. Marchmont hesitate before she "meddled" again.
From Jest to Earnest Edward Payson Roe 1863
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