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- verb Present participle of
partake .
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Examples
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Web users can begin partaking in inaugural festivities starting tomorrow, via live streaming of Saturday's Whistle Stop Tour that will take President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to Washington, D.C., from Philadelphia.
Microsoft's Silverlight to stream online video of inauguration 2009
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Web users can begin partaking in inaugural festivities starting tomorrow, via live streaming ...
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Is that the sort of thing anybody would be interested in partaking of?
in a fist of fire, ash and stone casacorona 2009
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They probably did not know that the Gentiles were to be admitted without circumcision or that they were to be on a level with the Jews in partaking of the grace of God.
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The spiritual Israelite derived, in partaking of these legal rights, spiritual blessings not flowing from them, but from the great antitype.
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The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad enough to hear; without witnessing the appalling operation.
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The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad enough to hear, without witnessing the appalling operation.
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The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad enough to hear; without witnessing the appalling operation.
The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Jules Verne 1866
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Cumberland's memoirs have generally been characterized as partaking of romance, and in the present instance he had particular motives for tampering with the truth.
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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Cumberland's memoirs have generally been characterized as partaking of romance, and in the present instance he had particular motives for tampering with the truth.
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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