Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Recollection; something to remember one by.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Regard; mindfulness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
mind .
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Examples
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Who the heck in minding the store with all the idiots running around that State?
Legislators dismiss most ethics charges against Sanford 2009
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The people of Quebec are chiefly engaged in minding their own business, an attitude which arouses the resentment and occasionally the mirth of the rest of the continent.
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Having a global military empire is not what I would call minding our own business.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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"They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business."
The Monster That Ate Congress James Taranto 2010
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And on a Wednesday afternoon I was walking down the corridor of my high school, kind of minding my own business, and there was this artist teaching, who made a great big old ceramic vessel.
Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show Bill Strickland 2002
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And on a Wednesday afternoon I was walking down the corridor of my high school, kind of minding my own business, and there was this artist teaching, who made a great big old ceramic vessel.
Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show Bill Strickland 2002
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And on a Wednesday afternoon I was walking down the corridor of my high school, kind of minding my own business, and there was this artist teaching, who made a great big old ceramic vessel.
Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show Bill Strickland 2002
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The morning that Jed was to start on his mysterious errand -- and he gloried in the mystery -- Mary was "minding" bread in the kitchen and
The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge
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On some of the nearby plantations the younger slaves were made to do light work on Sunday, such as minding the birds and crows from the corn, rice and potatoes.
Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts, 1911
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As a child nothing could afford him greater delight than "minding" other children, or them less.
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