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- noun Plural form of
spate .
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Examples
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When he did, it would be in spates and for a number of days, he would stalk me through the store.
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When he did, it would be in spates and for a number of days, he would stalk me through the store.
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There are no statistics for the number of attacks on councillors during this year; there were "spates" of attacks on councillors and others perceived as collaborators in February in
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In addition to temporary "spates," due to heavy rain, most rivers are fuller at one time of year than another, our rivers, for instance, in winter, those of Switzerland, from the melting of the snow, in summer.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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And thereat not another word could the missionary get from me, even though he baited me with more photographs that sent my head whirling with a rush of memory pictures and that urged and tickled my tongue with spates of speech which I sullenly resisted and overcame.
Chapter 6 2010
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SAN'A, Yemen—One of the deadliest spates of violence in months against demonstrators here has left over 50 people dead in two days and drawn in international officials in an effort to secure President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation and head off a worsening crisis.
Yemen Deaths Add Pressure for Deal Hakim Almasmari 2011
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It ends the use of a controversial crime-fighting tactic police had argued was needed to protect citizens during spates of violence.
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After spates of recalls in the last year alone, including a massive, nationwide egg recall of nearly half a billion eggs and numerous deaths, the food safety overhaul seemed like an uncontroversial, obvious improvement to a broken system that fell far beyond the left-right paradigm of most modern politicking.
Jon Stewart Tackles Food Safety Bill Paranoia The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Interview scenes, for the benefit of those of you joining us late in this conversation, are spates of dialogue where one character (usually the protagonist) is trying to extract information (the pursuit of which is often the driving force behind the plot) from another character (sometimes, but not always, historically reluctant to spill.)
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D.C. officials have agreed to end a program that used checkpoints to screen people going in and out of D.C. neighborhoods during spates of violent activity.
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