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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
parlay .
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Examples
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But the thing I really don't get is how all of this gets "parlayed" into "The Priss"?
Sometimes Copycatting is Dangerous Heo 2006
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"You can't promise anything in this game, but I really felt that Ruben kind of parlayed to me that this type of situation would not happen."
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The obscenely overrated thriller Drive parlayed good reviews to a solid $11.3 million opening.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: What the Massive Opening of The Lion King 3D Really Means for 3D and the Popularity of the Theatrical Experience Scott Mendelson 2011
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They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2012
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The obscenely overrated thriller Drive parlayed good reviews to a solid $11.3 million opening.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: What the Massive Opening of The Lion King 3D Really Means for 3D and the Popularity of the Theatrical Experience Scott Mendelson 2011
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Walker has parlayed a Bill Clinton appointment as Comptroller General into a lifetime career as a benefit-cut advocate, a career that not only pays well but provides enough over-the-top media flattery to embarrass a Maharajah.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security RJ 2011
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He parlayed one response into a business that earned $750,000 last year, he confirmed.
Tutor Network Scores To Grow Sophia Hollander 2012
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Thousands of unemployed or underemployed workers have parlayed one-off job requests into part- or full-time work.
Serfing the Web: Sites Let People Farm Out Their Chores Emily Glazer 2011
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He was actually an extremely popular Australian rules football player named Mark “Jacko” Jackson who parlayed his fame into a #1 hit (in Australia) and some movies.
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The title of her 1927 release and also that of a movie adaptation starring Clara Bow, Glyn parlayed her Edwardian success far past that era convincing the cynical post-Great War generation that theirs was not the only period for love and sin.
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