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  • noun a running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.

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Examples

  • And Deutsche Asset Management has issued a report calling for the establishment of a "reen"

    CSRwire.com 2008

  • The next event she is preparing for is next month's opening of the European Parliament in Brussels, where she will later sc reen her film and then agitate for changes in the Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP.

    The Maverick Marchioness Bruce Palling 2011

  • Colorines (pronounced "co-lo-reen-ays") are red flowers that bloom during the dry season (March) on trees in Morelos.

    Morelos' Exotic Foods For The Brave At Heart 2008

  • Colorines (pronounced "co-lo-reen-ays") are red flowers that bloom during the dry season (March) on trees in Morelos.

    Morelos' Exotic Foods For The Brave At Heart 2008

  • For instance, look at the human and the turtle: the layout of our Hox d genes is vary similar, with 13-12-11-10 laid out with approximately the same distances between them, and furthermore, there are conserved non-coding elements, most likely important pieces of regulatory DNA, that are illustrated in light yellow-reen and dark green vertical bars, and they are the same, too.

    How to make a snake - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • [G] reen thinking -- with its shrill intolerance of dissenting views, its deep distaste for free movement and free choice, and its view of individuals, not as history-makers, but as filthy polluters -- poses a more profound threat to liberty even than the government's paranoid anti-terrorist agenda.

    The Intolerance of Environmentalism 2008

  • I knew a girl who was actually named Urine pronounced yoo-reen by her mom, who saw the word and thought it sounded pretty.

    Patients Say the Darndest Things Mother Jones RN 2008

  • Huh? Poor Tobey, most “fo-reen” cars these days are built right here in the good ol US by good ol Americans.

    Think Progress » Did George Bush deface the American flag 2006

  • Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan, pour in the onion, reen chillies, red chillies, urad dal, mustard and cumin seeds and the coriander.

    Archive 2007-09-01 bhags 2007

  • Again, the post mortem investigation listed "[g] reen paint on the left hand and forehead and white paint on the lower back" in its description of the external appearance of the body. 38

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

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