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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of seem.

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Examples

  • All your tenderness then seems to be cruelty now: only _seems_, dearest, for I still say, I _do_ say that it is not so.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • April 13, 2008 at 6:11 pm reserbations – check accomydations – check packed – bedder getonit passport – aim shur seems tew be in order yew leabs awn April 27th – check yr return date……..seems to be missin oh an teh earplugs fr the MIL ai suggesht dat yew dubbl cheks yr soooootcases be4 yew leabs mite hab an unespekted Mamakitty in der!

    Conversion to anime: 11% complete - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The long light wearies the eye, a sense of time disturbs and saddens the spirit; and that is the reason, I think, that one half of the year seems so much longer than the other half; that on the dial-plate whose hours are months, the restless finger _seems_ to move more slowly when travelling upward from autumn leaves and snow to light, than when it is travelling downward from light to snow and withered leaves.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

  • But it seems to me -- it _seems_ that I would gladly make the sacrifice. "

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • "The warmth of surface which seems to be imparted by alcohol, only _seems_ to be imparted.

    Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890

  • The only people who use that term, unfortunately, are Aztlanistas of all ethnicities, while the n-word term has become part of mainstream culture it's first appearance in the mainstream media, by the way, dates back to a 1987 St. Petersburg Time article, while the term seems to date back to PC pendejos in charge of HR relations for the government during the early 1980s.

    Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word" Gustavo Arellano 2011

  • The label seems to have stuck for Cylart, however, since later engravings and ballads all make him out to be a greyhound.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The label seems to have stuck for Cylart, however, since later engravings and ballads all make him out to be a greyhound.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The label seems to have stuck for Cylart, however, since later engravings and ballads all make him out to be a greyhound.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The label seems to have stuck for Cylart, however, since later engravings and ballads all make him out to be a greyhound.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

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