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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
steep .
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Examples
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A name steeped in wartime history for British expats, these “drinkers with a running problem” simply were out to get some exercise, rid themselves of the weekend excess and celebrate their good living with a cold one.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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A name steeped in wartime history for British expats, these “drinkers with a running problem” simply were out to get some exercise, rid themselves of the weekend excess and celebrate their good living with a cold one.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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By your own admission, your knowledge of the economy is bankrupt as evidenced by your burning desire to continue funding this war steeped in steeped ideologies.
McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success 2008
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The first brews would have been concoctions of crushed or malted grain steeped and heated slowly in water, and then baked and submerged again.
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Tech support has improved over that period from downright insulting to borderline acceptable, but “Customer Service” remains, at best, a phrase steeped in irony.
Blindsight 2nd Printing; TAD Review in Flint Journal Review « Whatever 2006
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Peter Matheson, as macho and prideful as a matador, had been steeped in konjo, a Japanese word Wolf had learned many years later from his aikido sensei, which meant a distinctly masochistic obsession for physical acts that involve an enormous degree of hardship and pain.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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"One person, one vote" is a phrase steeped in history, but it has its limits.
FOXNews.com 2009
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Known as kibei, they were fluent in Japanese, steeped in Japanese history and culture, and supporters of Japanese expansion in the Far East.
Latest Articles 2008
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Known as kibei, they were fluent in Japanese, steeped in Japanese history and culture, and supporters of Japanese expansion in the Far East.
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The term is steeped in Soviet rhetoric: Lenin invoked it after the 1917 revolution, and Stalin, himself denounced as a parasite by Trotsky, used the label against Jews, dissidents and others.
Putin Calls U.S. a 'Parasite' Over Its Debt Richard Boudreaux 2011
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