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- verb Present participle of
multiply .
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Examples
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It is vital that the hierarchy atone for their own role in multiplying the abuse by moving known abusers from place to place.
Think Progress » Donohue: ‘There’s a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors.’ 2010
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Second, being fruitful and multiplying is part of the problem today.
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Yet, at the same time, threats will be multiplying from a youthful population in the crescent of instability running from Africa through the Middle East and into the former Soviet bloc.
Too old to fight? Richard 2006
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The art of financiering consists principally in multiplying and confusing accounts, till, at last, no one has courage to undertake an examination of them.
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And this mode of communicating poetic invention still remained, when the advanced civilization of man, in multiplying manuscripts, might have made many suspect that the time had arrived when the poet was to cease to sing, and to learn to write.
Preface - Part I 1822
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Until we know what those facts are, there’s no point in multiplying hypotheticals.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy: 2010
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Not merit in the idea of multiplying 7 and 13/16th by 9 and 17/64ths.
War on the Penny Continues Unabated - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Not merit in the idea of multiplying 7 and 13/16th by 9 and 17/64ths.
War on the Penny Continues Unabated - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Really like the idea of multiplying tax free (at least tax free on the recipient as these stimulus checks actually represent tax increases on the unborn, who will burdened with paying for them) stimulus check benefits with buying things to get even more tax benefits.
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Corporate Law Minister Chris Bowen flagged in December the idea of multiplying by five the penalty for breaking sharemarket trading rules.
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