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- noun Plural form of
sink . - verb Third person singular simple present of to
sink .
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Examples
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The high interest rates keep the City buoyant while the rest of Britain sinks, joining the Euro is the only plausible solution and therefore must do this before industry is battered anymore
Should Britain Join the Euro?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For the most part the problem with the money sinks is that they are badly handled, badly managed.
zornhau: Kurtzhau discovers the logic of Empire zornhau 2010
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Many of the bathrooms are pretty old, with white tiles, porcelain sinks ...
Nick Carr: Open House New York: Exploring the (Nearly!) Empty Post Office Building on 8th Ave Nick Carr 2010
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James Lumin sinks into the glass of his office window, the coolness of it a welcome balm to his frazzled synapses.
A Sky Without Zeppelins: Chapter Eleven amberfocus 2008
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As McCain sinks along with his doomed party, lets not forget how and why the American ship of State is also sinking – we were bushwhacked by greed and lies.
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If the world again sinks into the ruins of some ideological framework this history will have been written in vain and later people will revise it for themselves.
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Often the word sinks into a mere exclamation, or becomes an expression of flattery.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Almost a quarter of all the world's CO2 ends up in the oceans, but in May scientists reported in Science that recent climate change has weakened one of the Earth's natural carbon 'sinks' --- the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
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But one advantage of large project-oriented or center-oriented* grants is that they are educational 'sinks' -- they soak up surplus PhDs.
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But one advantage of large project-oriented or center-oriented* grants is that they are educational 'sinks' -- they soak up surplus PhDs.
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