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- noun Plural form of
yielding .
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Examples
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If she just has the moral poise to weather his yieldings to the beast within.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Hildegart felt a moment of sheer hatred for him, for his weakness, for his foolish yieldings to the temptations of darkness.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The all-glorious sun knows none of these yieldings up.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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You must try to obtain high yieldings per hectare and make sure that food is readily available for the people there, because with what you are telling me, food supply is not guaranteed.
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If we can double the yieldings of the sugarcane fields, why should we cut down on the food for our people?
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And you should seek higher yieldings from the farmers by applying agricultural technology.
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But surely, except in the modalities of intimacy, except in the forcings from me of helpless yieldings, and such, he had dealt with me as a slave.
Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983
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He made his appeal simply and, as he explained, without applying the case to any individual: My earnest wish and my fondest hope . . . is that instead of wounding suspicions and irritable charges, there may be liberal allowances, mutual forbearances and temporizing yieldings on all sides.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He made his appeal simply and, as he explained, without applying the case to any individual: My earnest wish and my fondest hope . . . is that instead of wounding suspicions and irritable charges, there may be liberal allowances, mutual forbearances and temporizing yieldings on all sides.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He made his appeal simply and, as he explained, without applying the case to any individual: My earnest wish and my fondest hope . . . is that instead of wounding suspicions and irritable charges, there may be liberal allowances, mutual forbearances and temporizing yieldings on all sides.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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