Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
provand .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
provand .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
provand .
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Examples
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Well, i have no problem with immigrants or even unassimilated immigrants, i mean what harm is a little diversity as long as it does not cross the line with the hole barer clash but the problem with Illegal immigrants is simple, It's Illegal and for good reason and that is to provent barer clashing.
And Bring on the Mexicans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The only thing that could provent this is if a director and or screenwriter with indie expierence gets invovled.
Fox Developing Cowboy Bebop Live-Action Feature Film! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Darryl WoodfordMy point was that in the case of performance enhancing drugs, it's not the state stepping in to provent the market, it's a seperate body e.g.
Consensus 2008
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My point was that in the case of performance enhancing drugs, it's not the state stepping in to provent the market, it's a seperate body e.g.
Consensus 2008
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To all android developers here is you chance, the people have spoken and it seems they are interested in a way to provent them from text messaging or even phone calls while they might of had to much to drink.
Mail Goggles for Gmail prevents drunk typing « Boy Genius Report 2008
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If I recall correctly the Australian special forces were actually in Iraq to provent the destruction of oil wells slightly prior to the invasion of 20 March 2003.
Another Prime Bush Ally Dumped-- Aussie Howard "Suffers Humiliating Defeat" 2007
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I'm sorry, but we're too busy cleaning up the mess we made in a country in which we already had people on the ground to provent widespread human rights violations.
From: Bush To: World Re: Sudan Chris 2004
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I'm sorry, but we're too busy cleaning up the mess we made in a country in which we already had people on the ground to provent widespread human rights violations.
Archive 2004-09-01 Chris 2004
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Zebedee Tugwell, boat-builder, for the yearly provent of two and sixpence sterling.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Doubtful rights go cheap; and so the foreshore westward of the brook being claimed by divers authorities, a tidy little cantle of it had been leased by Admiral Darling, lord of the manor, to Zebedee Tugwell, boat-builder, for the yearly provent of two and sixpence sterling.
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