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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sketch.

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Examples

  • The concept I sketched is for a typical household, and obviously the point of sharply diminishing marginal returns to additional income for real households will actually take the form of a distribution, such that for some households that point will be considerably lower (and vice-versa).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010

  • Neither of the arguments I have just sketched is without merit.

    A More Perfect Union 2004

  • Neither of the arguments I have just sketched is without merit.

    A More Perfect Union 2004

  • Nevertheless, the view I have sketched is often a help in thinking of these problems.

    G.P. Thomson - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The realistic promise that America initially offered, in the terms sketched in the Declaration of Independence - that everyone would be free to work hard for the values that make life possible and to flourish - seems to be dying and along with it the optimistic outlook on the world's future, which is slowly disappearing, except in some spots where the principles America was founded upon are beginning to be taken seriously.

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News By TIBOR MACHAN 2010

  • We thus avoid both horns of the dilemma sketched above.

    Intention Setiya, Kieran 2009

  • So the idea sketched thus far is really a family of theses, each corresponding to a different way of filling in the following schema:

    Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External Finlay, Stephen 2008

  • I shall get the idea sketched out here and work it up at Kami's.

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • To explain each of these would require a chapter devoted to a profound internal analysis, and that is a work that can scarcely be called sketched out at the present day.

    Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

  • On another point, the dilemma sketched out by Timothy regarding MI5 would place limits on its activities with respect to other intelligence agencies.

    The Guardian World News Timothy Garton Ash 2010

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