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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nix .
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Examples
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But to blame Clinton for a deal that a Republican-controlled Congress nixed is silly.
Think Progress » White House Accuses Clinton of Sending ‘Flowers and Chocolates’ To Kim Jong-il 2006
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reveals that the latest to be nixed is actually popular children’s author Bill Martin Jr.
Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author. 2010
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An unusual call nixed a Winnipeg opportunity to add more points to finish the first half.
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An unusual call nixed a Winnipeg opportunity to add more points to finish the first half.
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An unusual call nixed a Winnipeg opportunity to add more points to finish the first half.
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An unusual call nixed a Winnipeg opportunity to add more points to finish the first half.
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Habeas corpus is nixed, meaning that the detainees have no right to challenge the grounds for their detention (thus assuring the secrecy of the crime ring, in which mostly innocent people are captured and tortured as so-called "terrorists").
Is impeachment "off the table" due to Congress' voting record? 2008
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But Greene "nixed" the promotion, arguing that it wasn't necessary, he said in deposition.
News 2009
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The next day the James Gang came over to Centennial for dinner and I made decisions on the bathroom tile, grey stone, nixed knotty pine as trim or anything else, having a dislike of it as reminiscent of moldy New England motels going for the antique look.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Moreover, on at least one occasion the Bush administration refused to do what Pakistan would not: In 2005 Donald Rumsfeld nixed a proposed attack on a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders in the tribal region—a group thought to include Ayman al-Zawahiri—in part because the operation, which would have involved more than a hundred Special Forces and CIA personnel, could have destabilized Musharraf.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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