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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rile .
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Examples
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Palin riles up her supporters to “take the country back.”
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They're calling it an earmark, a word that riles emotions in a time when Republicans and Democrats are trying to wring savings from the federal budget.
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Footnote UPDATE August 24 Commenter "riles" notes that the beer-bottle officer is not the same one who carried the rock.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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How any of this "riles" Pete Andre is not certain.
Anorak News 2009
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I should extremely like to see your reasons published in detail, for it 'riles' me (this is a proper expression, is it not?) dreadfully "(Darwin to Gray, January 1st,
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Pacino's ruffled, passionate evocation of working-class Brooklynite Sonny -- who riles the gawking crowd outside the bank with chants of "Attica!"
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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Pacino's ruffled, passionate evocation of working-class Brooklynite Sonny -- who riles the gawking crowd outside the bank with chants of "Attica!"
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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For example, GOP riles crazies and threats of violence ensue?
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What riles Darko C. and other people in Myanmar most is that the sanctions have done relatively little to harm the people they supposedly target: Top army leaders and the powerful tycoons who got rich during the old military regime.
Sanctions Put Rock Band in Hard Place James Hookway 2012
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Pacino's ruffled, passionate evocation of working-class Brooklynite Sonny -- who riles the gawking crowd outside the bank with chants of "Attica!"
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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