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  • noun Plural form of show.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of show.

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Examples

  • The label shows the silhouette of someone "Tebowing" with a mug of beer in his hand.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

  • The label shows the silhouette of someone "Tebowing" with a mug of beer in his hand.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

  • Recent examinations of this inscription suggest that the label shows signs of being cut from a different original.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • If the label shows that a moisturizer includes lots of heavy emollients such as lanolin, mineral oil, and shea butter, you know it will be too greasy if you have generally oily skin.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • If the label shows that a moisturizer includes lots of heavy emollients such as lanolin, mineral oil, and shea butter, you know it will be too greasy if you have generally oily skin.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • If the label shows that a moisturizer includes lots of heavy emollients such as lanolin, mineral oil, and shea butter, you know it will be too greasy if you have generally oily skin.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • But as the Obama Conspiracy blog details, no direct equivalent to "natural born citizen" appears in Vattel's original French, and the phrase shows up only in English translations of the book issued after the Constitution was written; translations from 1760 and 1787 use Vattel's untranslated word "indigenes," a word that much is more directly descriptive of an indigenous population such as Native Americans than a "natural born citizen."

    Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily's Natural Born Misleaders Terry Krepel 2011

  • And add to all that, Rudy's attempt to postpone mayoral elections then (when that failed) stay in office beyond the end of his term shows his abiding love for democracy.

    Pundit: Rudy's 9/11 Performance Gives Him Claim To "Combat" Experience 2009

  • And I think the title shows that Seeley is definitely in on Frye.

    princeofcairo: An Anatomy of Horror princeofcairo 2009

  • The hops and barley are grown in “red Mars dust composted with human waste and weeds of Earth” and the label shows “Mons Olympus with its top circled in stars against the black Martian sky, and at its foot a tiny alien ship from Earth on a black lava plain.”

    Archive 2009-07-01 Paul 2009

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