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  • verb Present participle of tear-gas.

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Examples

  • But I did go the day after the odious tear-gassing of American citizens less than a mile from my home.

    Conan Neutron: The Occupy Movement Is Not a Bunch of Filthy Hippies, It's Something Brand New Conan Neutron 2011

  • Somehow, that revelation -- along with the realization that more people shop for shoes and iPads than occupy Wall Street, yet no one's tear-gassing hordes of shoppers when they block traffic -- made me rethink the nostalgia of Christmas shopping.

    Janice Harper: Shopping for Presence: A Christmas Lesson Janice Harper 2011

  • Somehow, that revelation -- along with the realization that more people shop for shoes and iPads than occupy Wall Street, yet no one's tear-gassing hordes of shoppers when they block traffic -- made me rethink the nostalgia of Christmas shopping.

    Janice Harper: Shopping for Presence: A Christmas Lesson Janice Harper 2011

  • Yet it can't show enough restraint to refrain from fixing a buddy's ticket, tear-gassing Occupy Wall Street demonstrators that had already been rendered helpless by police restraints, or behaving in a civil manner when fellow cops are hauled into court.

    Dan Collins: Ray Kelly Should Turn in His Badge Dan Collins 2011

  • Yet it can't show enough restraint to refrain from fixing a buddy's ticket, tear-gassing Occupy Wall Street demonstrators that had already been rendered helpless by police restraints, or behaving in a civil manner when fellow cops are hauled into court.

    Dan Collins: Ray Kelly Should Turn in His Badge Dan Collins 2011

  • One reason was the leadership of the liberal Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who ordered the eviction but also no beatings, tear-gassing or police violence.

    Tom Hayden: Los Angeles Shows an Alternative Approach to Occupy Tom Hayden 2011

  • Somehow, that revelation -- along with the realization that more people shop for shoes and iPads than occupy Wall Street, yet no one's tear-gassing hordes of shoppers when they block traffic -- made me rethink the nostalgia of Christmas shopping.

    Janice Harper: Shopping for Presence: A Christmas Lesson Janice Harper 2011

  • Somehow, that revelation -- along with the realization that more people shop for shoes and iPads than occupy Wall Street, yet no one's tear-gassing hordes of shoppers when they block traffic -- made me rethink the nostalgia of Christmas shopping.

    Janice Harper: Shopping for Presence: A Christmas Lesson Janice Harper 2011

  • Yet it can't show enough restraint to refrain from fixing a buddy's ticket, tear-gassing Occupy Wall Street demonstrators that had already been rendered helpless by police restraints, or behaving in a civil manner when fellow cops are hauled into court.

    Dan Collins: Ray Kelly Should Turn in His Badge Dan Collins 2011

  • With the quashing of free media, mass tear-gassing, beating and arrest of protesters, and absence of political space for opposition candidates to campaign or express dissenting political opinion, conditions for free, fair, and open elections are non-existent.

    Father Roy Bourgeois: Time to Shut Down the School of Americas 2010

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