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- noun Plural form of
repartee . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
repartee .
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Examples
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Is there no room on your site for actual discussion of the topic – sans the childish insults and boorishness – and civil, polite repartees among your readership?
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Call me what you like, but those little bubble repartees of my neon green to his snowy white document, like nowhere else, the story of our lives.
Tamar Chansky: 2G or Not 2G: A Love Story with Technical Difficulties 2010
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Call me what you like, but those little bubble repartees of my neon green to his snowy white document, like nowhere else, the story of our lives.
Tamar Chansky: 2G or Not 2G: A Love Story with Technical Difficulties Tamar Chansky 2010
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Louis XV was enchanted with the young Dauphiness; all his conversation was about her graces, her vivacity, and the aptness of her repartees.
Marie-Antoinette's Wedding elena maria vidal 2009
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Louis XV was enchanted with the young Dauphiness; all his conversation was about her graces, her vivacity, and the aptness of her repartees.
Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Diary Entry by Rob Kall (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Tuesday Night Clinton Obama Debate'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'major points, strong positions, repartees?
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But, on the present occasion, Louis neglected not to take notice of the favourite buffoon of the Duke, and to applaud his repartees, which he did the rather that he thought he saw that the folly of Le Glorieux, however grossly it was sometimes displayed, covered more than the usual quantity of shrewd and caustic observation proper to his class.
Quentin Durward 2008
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The wisest, or at least the most crafty sovereign of his time, he was fond of low life, and, being himself a man of wit, enjoyed the jests and repartees of social conversation more than could have been expected from other points of his character.
Quentin Durward 2008
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By Rob Kall major points, strong positions, repartees?
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