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- adjective Not
stemmed .
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Examples
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A previous, similar effort failed in May when the mud couldn't overcome the unstemmed flow of oil.
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A previous, similar effort failed in May when the mud couldn't overcome the unstemmed flow of oil.
BP: Static Kill Is Working On Gulf Oil Spill, 'It's A Milestone' 2010
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And treasure, too, in gold and gems, and forms of life as yet undreamed, that beckons fancy, leaves unstemmed mens' desires, wants, and needs -
APED: "beneath" hradzka 2009
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Fortunately, you can disable stemming by enclosing the words you wish to remain unstemmed in EXACT e.g.
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The tide of calamity that was to purge and fortify the sinews of His Faith had swept on with unstemmed fury.
God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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Quick over Madison's face surged the red in an unstemmed tide -- volcanic within him his love that he knew now possessed his very soul, jealousy that, blinding, robbed him of his senses, roused him to frenzy.
The Miracle Man 1909
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The sense of her nearness, of her trust, of the warm living fire of her love swept over him unstemmed; and, when she turned and looked in his eyes, he caught her in his arms and held her there with a fierce tenderness, her face thrown back, the veins of her throat pulsing to the touch of wind and night, her lips parted, her lashes hiding her eyes.
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The fire was extinguished almost as rapidly as it began, but the torrent of Mrs. Clancy's eloquence was still unstemmed.
The Deserter Charles King 1888
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In England the duties are, on unmanufactured: Stemmed or stripped and unstemmed, containing 10 pounds or more of moisture in every 100 pounds weight thereof, 3s. 6d. per pound; containing less than 10 pounds of moisture, 3s.
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Oh, how I longed to stem their unstemmed tides; to land upon those magic islands which the foot of man or beast never trod, whose beauty and verdure are guarded by the stern hand of death!
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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