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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nudge .
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Examples
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Then, fifteen years later, I had an encounter with a bear which once again nudged the old childhood passions back to the surface.
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence 2010
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Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.
Page 4 2010
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence 2010
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence 2010
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With another whack, Yashin nudged the puck between Lundqvist's pads - leaving the Rangers goalie with his head thrust upward in disgust.
USATODAY.com - Hockey - N.Y. Rangers vs. N.Y. Islanders 2006
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Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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Our calculations show that the $10 million bonus Woods earned winning this year's FedEx Cup title nudged him over the $1 billion mark in career earnings.
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Our calculations show that the $10 million bonus Woods earned winning this year's FedEx Cup title nudged him over the $1 billion mark in career earnings.
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Spivek saw his expression and nudged him, trying to break the trance.
The After Wife Lexi Davis 2009
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