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  • noun Plural form of wear.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wear.

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Examples

  • I have two great books that give me inspiration as the term wears on.

    Archive 2007-12-01 The List Writer 2007

  • I have two great books that give me inspiration as the term wears on.

    Packed lunches The List Writer 2007

  • But now e-mails get you any time of day or night - sillier as the term wears on.

    Pink or purple? 2006

  • The label wears the logos of Kirkland Signature (Costco’s in-house brand), Disney, and the USDA Organic certification, all set in a peaceful blue sky above a field featuring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, ’Roo and a unnamed bluebird (in the banner labeling the crackers “Organic”) gamboling about happily.

    Kirkland Signature Disney Organic Animal Crackers - Vanilla jkd 2007

  • The label wears the logos of Kirkland Signature (Costco’s in-house brand), Disney, and the USDA Organic certification, all set in a peaceful blue sky above a field featuring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, ’Roo and a unnamed bluebird (in the banner labeling the crackers “Organic”) gamboling about happily.

    Archive 2007-09-01 jkd 2007

  • The most outlandish is a get-up Mr. Laurin wears to play golf.

    Why Malkovich Is Fun to Watch 2010

  • The dark blue suit he wears is one he bought two years ago, at the boy's section of a department store on Magazine Street when he launched his long-shot bid for office.

    Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans Steve Hendrix 2010

  • Jean Crain wears such pretty dresses with such detail and her mother does too.

    Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009

  • Does TP really have nothing better to report on than polls such as this, or what Sarah Palin wears, or what tea-partiers may have said to a politician?

    Think Progress » More Americans have a ‘favorable’ opinion of the IRS than of the Tea Party. 2010

  • The scene was recreated for a photograph on the spot: the white headpiece Mr. Santos wears is his shirt and the "pen" in his hand is a vulture 's feather.

    A Modern Marat 2010

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