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  • verb Present participle of neglect.

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Examples

  • Still to come: Sen. Kent Conrad is sticking up for TARP and the stimulus; Matthew Yglesias thinks Obama's biggest economic mistakes came in neglecting the Fed; Milton Friedman would support quantitative easing; and There Will Be Blood as a Super Nintendo game.

    Wonkbook: 57% worry about mortgage; midterm might cost $4 billion; to triangulate or not to triangulate? Ezra Klein 2010

  • If you let your children shop at Abercrombie, chances are you take pride in neglecting your children and think that exposing them to heavy doses of sexualization is probably a good thing.

    Abercrombie & Fitch--Where The Ugly Go To Die 2008

  • Realising the error of my ways in neglecting Alan Clark's diaries, two volumes quickly arrived and these, as I've said make fruitful and fascinating reading.

    Sunday Confessions on Monday 2007

  • Realising the error of my ways in neglecting Alan Clark's diaries, two volumes quickly arrived and these, as I've said make fruitful and fascinating reading.

    52 entries from February 2007 2007

  • The vociferous property owners at Wednesday's Council meeting were stark evidence that the Administration of Mayor Robinson-Briggs has seriously stubbed its toe in neglecting to involve the business community in any 'visioning' process for the city's future.

    Assemblyman Green is absolutely right Dan 2007

  • Realising the error of my ways in neglecting Alan Clark's diaries, two volumes quickly arrived and these, as I've said make fruitful and fascinating reading.

    Sunday Confessions on Monday 2007

  • The vociferous property owners at Wednesday's Council meeting were stark evidence that the Administration of Mayor Robinson-Briggs has seriously stubbed its toe in neglecting to involve the business community in any 'visioning' process for the city's future.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Dan 2007

  • Whatsoever he seeketh, that I accomplish for him, and I have no excuse in neglecting that he biddeth me do; because I am Sultan over two-and-seventy tribes of the Jinn, each two-and-seventy thousand in number every one of which thousand ruleth over a thousand Marids, each Marid over a thousand Ifrits, each Ifrit over a thousand Satans and each Satan over a thousand

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The following night, the maiden appeared once more, admonishing the knight for his lack of chivalry in neglecting a damsel's petition.

    11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003

  • He says he has no doubt I have long repented of my 'unfortunate marriage,' and if I will only acknowledge this, and confess I was wrong in neglecting his advice, and that I have justly suffered for it, he will make a lady of me once again – if that be possible after my long degradation – and remember my girls in his will.

    Agnes Grey 1931

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