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- noun often used in plural Plural form of
plaudit .
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- noun enthusiastic approval
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Examples
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Obviously the “rich girls weep” gains applause and plaudits from the public at large and the government.
Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Back in New York, his ground-breaking model has provoked controversy as well as plaudits from the White House.
Can Geoffrey Canada rescue America's ailing schools? Barack Obama hopes so Paul Harris in Harlem 2010
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The authors, both pollsters, will either win plaudits in future years or be forgotten like many hyperbolic, wrong-headed forecasters through the eons.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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The authors, both pollsters, will either win plaudits in future years or be forgotten like many hyperbolic, wrong-headed forecasters through the eons.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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Then they would care more about justice for the victimized than getting plaudits from the New York Times.
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The authors, both pollsters, will either win plaudits in future years or be forgotten like many hyperbolic, wrong-headed forecasters through the eons.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
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He had thought that this next six months would see France once more in its rightful place as the natural leader of Europe, handing out this fatcat job here, this little pourboire there, accepting the plaudits from a grateful Eurcracy and European political elite for a job well and truly done.
Archive 2008-06-29 2008
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He had thought that this next six months would see France once more in its rightful place as the natural leader of Europe, handing out this fatcat job here, this little pourboire there, accepting the plaudits from a grateful Eurcracy and European political elite for a job well and truly done.
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So Bush makes a direct assault on the rich and you will find no plaudits from the MSM or Jeff.
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He is laughed at, plucked, hustled, and robbed, by those who deafen him with their "plaudits" -- their roars.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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