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

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Examples

  • It was this sort of elasticity that won for Baker the nickname the wets hung on him: Purely A.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • But perhaps more important than the celebrations of the drys or the adjustments of the wets was the stirring of activity in some quarters that had remained untouched by the decades of debate.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • But perhaps more important than the celebrations of the drys or the adjustments of the wets was the stirring of activity in some quarters that had remained untouched by the decades of debate.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • It was this sort of elasticity that won for Baker the nickname the wets hung on him: Purely A.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The only revelation that might have been worse for the wets was the statement made by a liquor dealer at an industry meeting the year before: We must create the appetite for liquor in the growing boys. . .

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The only revelation that might have been worse for the wets was the statement made by a liquor dealer at an industry meeting the year before: We must create the appetite for liquor in the growing boys. . .

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The wets were the traditional Tories—partakers in the Keynesian

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • For much of the 1980s, the cabinet at least contained One-Nation Tories (the so-called wets) such as Francis Pym, James Prior and Peter Walker.

    New Statesman 2010

  • At the Blackpool conference in 1981, she saw open revolt from the "wets", even in her own cabinet.

    David Cameron is taking a big gamble with his own party Simon Jenkins 2010

  • On the other hand, sometimes you need a few "wets" to gain a majority and advance your own ideas.

    The Tea Party and the GOP 2010

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