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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
purvey .
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Examples
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They consume and utter the most incomprehensible words, commonly purveyed from the latest management consultants working with them.
Development Opportunities « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Most familiar are those adapted from the culinary sphere, to refer to dishes initially purveyed by Chinese immigrants, mainly from Canton, and hence from Cantonese: chop suey, bok choy, dim sum, wonton.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Most familiar are those adapted from the culinary sphere, to refer to dishes initially purveyed by Chinese immigrants, mainly from Canton, and hence from Cantonese: chop suey, bok choy, dim sum, wonton.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Complaint Department: Surely, this is the finest catnip zucchini ever purveyed by fawning monkeys unto a deserving Cat, here verily upon the floor of this office.
[AKICILJ] for forty days and forty night they rode through red blood to the knee ellen_kushner 2009
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All of them purveyed what seemed like idealistic causes but their real agenda was, and still is, designed to capture the minds of innocent people and, through devious mind control means, corral them into doing their bidding.
Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie Warren Adler 2011
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Simplistic, dogmatic opinions purveyed by screaming partisans on all sides is the style of our times in which people demand answers to problems before they have even asked the questions.
Thomas Singer, M.D.: C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange M.D. Thomas Singer 2011
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Simplistic, dogmatic opinions purveyed by screaming partisans on all sides is the style of our times in which people demand answers to problems before they have even asked the questions.
Thomas Singer, M.D.: C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange M.D. Thomas Singer 2011
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This was the image of Mr. Joly purveyed recently by a major French magazine.
Mr. Joly's Particularly Pure Terroir Jay McInerney 2010
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Simplistic, dogmatic opinions purveyed by screaming partisans on all sides is the style of our times in which people demand answers to problems before they have even asked the questions.
Thomas Singer, M.D.: C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange M.D. Thomas Singer 2011
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Simplistic, dogmatic opinions purveyed by screaming partisans on all sides is the style of our times in which people demand answers to problems before they have even asked the questions.
Thomas Singer, M.D.: C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange M.D. Thomas Singer 2011
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