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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
welch .
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Examples
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The Arab League asked the UN for help to beef up the mission, but, with due respect to the Arab League's enterprise that was limited in scope in the first place, what, pray tell would a few more UN-issued helmets and flak jackets accomplish given how Assad just figuratively lobbed his shoe at the Arab League and welched on his own pledges to the League during the League's recently ineffective observer deployment?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012
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The Arab League asked the UN for help to beef up the mission, but, with due respect to the Arab League's enterprise that was limited in scope in the first place, what, pray tell would a few more UN-issued helmets and flak jackets accomplish given how Assad just figuratively lobbed his shoe at the Arab League and welched on his own pledges to the League during the League's recently ineffective observer deployment?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012
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When Bush suggested the Moon, he welched on his funding promise.
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The Arab League asked the UN for help to beef up the mission, but, with due respect to the Arab League's enterprise that was limited in scope in the first place, what, pray tell would a few more UN-issued helmets and flak jackets accomplish given how Assad just figuratively lobbed his shoe at the Arab League and welched on his own pledges to the League during the League's recently ineffective observer deployment?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012
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December 4th, 2008 at 11: 54 am welshing, welshed also welched, welsh·ing also welch·ing, welsh·es also welch·es Informal
Travelling Thieves, Pickpockets, &c. 1957 | clusterflock 2008
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It will surprise no one to learn that the ILD welched on the promise.
Ellen Feldman: Scottsboro: The Musical and the Myth Ellen Feldman 2010
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Lines got crossed, deals were welched on, cheaters were cheated, witnesses were eliminated — so much so that on any given day in any given part of town, any outlaw might have reason for killing any other.
Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010
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It will surprise no one to learn that the ILD welched on the promise.
Ellen Feldman: Scottsboro: The Musical and the Myth Ellen Feldman 2010
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Lines got crossed, deals were welched on, cheaters were cheated, witnesses were eliminated — so much so that on any given day in any given part of town, any outlaw might have reason for killing any other.
Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010
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Lines got crossed, deals were welched on, cheaters were cheated, witnesses were eliminated — so much so that on any given day in any given part of town, any outlaw might have reason for killing any other.
Becoming Al Capone Jonathan Eig 2010
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