Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Necessarily.
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- noun   Plural form of needling .
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Examples
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								Seems to me to be just another one of Mason's sarcastic needlings of Dixon's tendency to rain on parades/be pessimistic, no? 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								Now, however, she claims to have a laissez-faire attitude to all things physical, despite the constant needlings of the media, inclined to picture her in bikinis on holiday and mourn/champion her physical inadequacies. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009 
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								He'd tell all those know-it-alls we'll have no bad feelings, or waterboard action or pincushion needlings. 
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								He'd tell all those know-it-alls we'll have no bad feelings, or waterboard action or pincushion needlings. 
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								He'd tell all those know-it-alls we'll have no bad feelings, or waterboard action or pincushion needlings. 
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