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- verb Present participle of
applaud .
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Examples
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Really CNN, with the Poles feelingbeing betrayed and Putin applauding the announcement to pull the missle shield.
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William F. Buckley is probably applauding from the grave.
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My counterpart got a monetary merit award, and I got the privilege of applauding from the audience.
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While Michael Pfleger's words are offensive, the cheering and applauding from the audience worries even more.
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A message from a Catholic priest: "Your providential success is good for all since, in applauding you, we proclaim the very evangelic truth and charity which give life and salvation their being."
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He also added that but once had all the club members united in applauding the same speaker; only Samuel Jones, who afterwards became the "golden rule" mayor of Toledo, had been able to overcome all their dogmatic differences, when he had set forth a plan of endowing a group of workingmen with a factory plant and a working capital for experimentation in hours and wages, quite as groups of scholars are endowed for research.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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So, after much discussion, it was decided that she should have her way in all things and the family content themselves with applauding from the front.
Rose in Bloom 1876
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Nay lose no time in applauding, I'le in, the Carrier goes this morning, farewell Lodwick. — [Goes into the Basket.
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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He was so preoccupied by his own intimate sensations that the idea of applauding never occurred to him, until he perceived his conspicuousness in not applauding, whereupon he clapped self-consciously.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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My opponent, Republican Bill McCollum, is "applauding" Senate Bill 6 and giving it "two thumbs up".
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