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- adjective Alternative spelling of
weather-beaten .
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Examples
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Monsanto is apparently out to put a friendly, slightly weatherbeaten, gently grizzled face on industrial agriculture see above photo, taken at a DC bus stop just outside USDA headquarters.
Kerry Trueman: Behind Monsanto's Satisfied Farmer Ad Campaign Kerry Trueman 2011
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Monsanto is apparently out to put a friendly, slightly weatherbeaten, gently grizzled face on industrial agriculture see above photo, taken at a DC bus stop just outside USDA headquarters.
Kerry Trueman: Behind Monsanto's Satisfied Farmer Ad Campaign Kerry Trueman 2011
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Her book "When Things Fall Apart" sits on my bookshelf, dog-eared and weatherbeaten from much use.
New Harbinger: 5 Steps For Letting Depression Be Your Teacher New Harbinger 2011
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Darren the scaffolder doubtless just wanted to look more youthful – that's a whole other discussion – but it's distressing that in an economy as grim as ours, a man should feel the need to hide the signs of honest toil, trading his weatherbeaten appearance for a face that suggests a life lived more luxuriously.
Let's face it, chaps, facelifts just don't suit you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011
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Her book "When Things Fall Apart" sits on my bookshelf, dog-eared and weatherbeaten from much use.
New Harbinger: 5 Steps For Letting Depression Be Your Teacher New Harbinger 2011
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Her book "When Things Fall Apart" sits on my bookshelf, dog-eared and weatherbeaten from much use.
New Harbinger: 5 Steps For Letting Depression Be Your Teacher New Harbinger 2011
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Their weatherbeaten faces reflected a century of drudge, drought, rising fuel prices and a sharp decrease in demand for anything corn or soy.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The open court before the church, though it too is bare and dirty, with lonely, crumbling walls and pillars about it, yet has in its centre a weatherbeaten cross that speaks of service to the Lord.
American novelist Charles Fleming Embree set his first novel at Lake Chapala 2009
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Her book "When Things Fall Apart" sits on my bookshelf, dog-eared and weatherbeaten from much use.
New Harbinger: 5 Steps For Letting Depression Be Your Teacher New Harbinger 2011
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Fairview Park was a broad expanse of grass, pathways, and small clumps of weatherbeaten hawthorn and poplar.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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