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- verb Present participle of
pluralize .
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Examples
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She could always get a job teaching you and yours how to spell…and how to otherwise communicate effectively and without error…such as pluralizing “woman”, etc.
Kathy Griffin on Emmy nom: 'I am now pitted against my archnemesis, Ryan f-ing Seacrest' | EW.com 2010
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I am worried that no one is pluralizing the word "pant."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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I am worried that no one is pluralizing the word "pant."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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The market will not save us and while I am the first to insist on pluralizing connections with those who would struggle with us, those committed to the neoliberal order of growth and the cruel austerity measures that are imposed on the most vulnerable when that system fails are not part of that coalition.
Jairus Grove: A User's Guide to the New Racism Jairus Grove 2010
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The market will not save us and while I am the first to insist on pluralizing connections with those who would struggle with us, those committed to the neoliberal order of growth and the cruel austerity measures that are imposed on the most vulnerable when that system fails are not part of that coalition.
Jairus Grove: A User's Guide to the New Racism Jairus Grove 2010
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I am worried that no one is pluralizing the word "pant."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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By “words used as words” I mean cases where you are pluralizing the word itself, not the object to which the word refers.
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar 2007
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As a sideline, I apply a similar rule for pluralizing.
Preposterous Apostrophes I: Possessives « Motivated Grammar 2007
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The 18th century strikes me as being the time when people might have felt one apology wasn't enough, so they really went in for pluralizing it.
Archive 2009-03-01 DC 2009
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Typically, JoeP forms correct plurals elsewhere in his post ( "GOPers", "districts", "dates"), indicating that he believes the apostrophe is optional for pluralizing - you use it if you feel like it!
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