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- noun Plural form of
spring . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
spring .
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Examples
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In the far West are numerous springs of petroleum, which are known to the hunters as "_tar springs_," because of the accumulations about them of the products of the evaporation and oxidation of petroleum to tar or asphalt.
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Such is the immediate logic of the title springs to mind.
Gaza Invasion Protesters; Don't Feed the Beast-- Let's start talking about smart protest."
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The title springs from his assertion that cinema is 'the ultimate pervert art.'
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Each of their springs is assigned a “spring constant”, which is not the same as the physical spring constant k, which they call the spring rate.
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My writing, I have begun to understand I am learning anew with each newly written word springs from the same need to measure.
A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about Everything Is Illuminated
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The connectedness springs from the idea that any assigning we try to do of behavior by ethnic identity is patently ridiculous.
Review: 'Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven' at Studio Theatre
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This defiant tribute springs from a need to impose their collective identity on this alien and menacing landscape.
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It's the raw emotion the springs from a fear of change.
Carolyn Hax: Getting custody of husband's kids has this wife panicking
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Your view springs from a factually, objectively disproven and inaccurate view of how the economy functions.
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SAP's motion concerning extrajudicial communications in large part springs from a recent incident involving the New York Times in which Times reporter Joe Nocera sharply criticized Leo Apotheker, named Chief Executive at PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Sept. 30.
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