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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
smolder .
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Examples
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The envelope smolders from the stool across the room so to avoid it; I roll over giving it my back.
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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But what smolders on is the scandal sparked by the fire.
Casino Arrests Stir Scandal in Mexico David Luhnow 2011
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The U.S. military presence in Iraq is scheduled to end in December, after more than eight years, but the conflict smolders on.
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The display of Confederate flags within those cemeteries, however, became a contentious issue that was not resolved until a 2002 court decision that forbade it.35 The Confederate flag and other Confederate insignia remain volatile symbols, evidence that the war still smolders.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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On turning 50, Matt said, " I'm lucky to have survived AIDS for 20 years, but I face the unknowns of a longer life with a virus that still smolders within my aging body and immune system."
Sean Cahill: The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV Sean Cahill 2011
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