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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
receive .
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Examples
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In the New Testament, Jesus said, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me" Mark 9:36-37.
Andrew Hysell: Faith Leaders And The Campaign For Healthy Kids Andrew Hysell 2011
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In the New Testament, Jesus said, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me" Mark 9:36-37.
Andrew Hysell: Faith Leaders And The Campaign For Healthy Kids Andrew Hysell 2011
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In the New Testament, Jesus said, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me" Mark 9:36-37.
Andrew Hysell: Faith Leaders And The Campaign For Healthy Kids Andrew Hysell 2011
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In the New Testament, Jesus said, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me" Mark 9:36-37.
Andrew Hysell: Faith Leaders And The Campaign For Healthy Kids Andrew Hysell 2011
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In the New Testament, Jesus said, "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me" Mark 9:36-37.
Andrew Hysell: Faith Leaders And The Campaign For Healthy Kids Andrew Hysell 2011
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The title receives an basically perfect 5/5 score.
Review: 'Up' on DVD and Blu-ray Mike 2009
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Now we can use the facts above to deduce the messages that the brain receives from the blinking dots.
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Hubel and Wiesel have disclosed one of the most well guarded secrets of the brain: the way by which its cells decode the message which the brain receives from the eyes.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 - Presentation Speech 1981
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This would happen, for example, when there is confusion about the identity of an individual because his/her name receives multiple hits in the NICS database e.g., an individual named John Michael Smith initially submits an application without his full middle name and causes a check to be run on a different John M. Smith.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Josh Horwitz 2012
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The initially quite lacking server browser of the multiplayer component of the title receives yet more interface improvements with this newly released patch.
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