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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
return .
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Examples
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Funds with Ginnie Mae or GNMA in their name returned an average of 5.8% in the 12 months through August, according to preliminary data from fund tracker Morningstar Inc., and 6.8% annualized over five years.
Using Ginnie Mae Funds as a Cash Stash Annelena Lobb 2011
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My expectation is that they'll attack her as if she's Vladimir Lenin returned from the dead.
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Modin returned from a six-game absence (groin) and had five shots in the first period.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Without carrying the lock with him, he went directly to his shop, and at the expiration of his term returned, applied his instrument, and open flew the lock.
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The way he called me son instead of my name returned me to southern Texas in the days before World War Two; days when the slightest error in words could hold dire consequences for a black man.
A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002
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The way he called me son instead of my name returned me to southern Texas in the days before World War Two; days when the slightest error in words could hold dire consequences for a black man.
A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002
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Her eyes glared hotly and then her expression returned to one of self-pity.
Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997
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Her eyes glared hotly and then her expression returned to one of self-pity.
Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997
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At the conclusion of his term returned to his home at Wheatland, near
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan 1878
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At the expiration of his term returned to his home at Fremont, Ohio.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes 1878
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