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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
commit .
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Examples
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I won't spoil it for you; suffice to say, Anakin commits an evil act in the name of good.
‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ 2.13: ‘Voyage Of Temptation’ Recap » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Just as Quentin commits his worst act of betrayal, Penny appears with astonishing news: hes been to Fillory and can take them all.
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In offering us cowboys who are gay, then, Brokeback Mountain commits heresy, but it is knowing heresy, matter-of-fact heresy.
January 2006 2006
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In a shocking (for 1909) ending, Martin commits suicide.
Wolf Dying: Page III 2004
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In effect, such a phrase commits the province to ensuring the federal government recovers not only its investment but what they anticipated getting back as well. it's a bit of a nebulous idea but there should be no doubt about it: If the reserves have grown - as expected - and the potential federal return on investment has grown - as expected - the the question actually lays claim to zilch.
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Who is it that commits a karmic cause and who is it that experiences its result?
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Every writer of a long word commits errors, where there appears neither ambiguity to mislead, nor obscurity to confound him; and in a search like this, many felicities of expression will be casually overlooked, many convenient parallels will be forgotten, and many particulars will admit improvement from a mind utterly unequal to the whole performance.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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The court order also "commits" the mental-health system to providing the treatment.
DJ Jaffe: What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting DJ Jaffe 2011
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The court order also "commits" the mental-health system to providing the treatment.
DJ Jaffe: What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting DJ Jaffe 2011
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In addition to committing the patient to accept the treatment, under the "Model Law" AOT 'commits' the mental health system to providing it.
DJ Jaffe: Largest & Longest Study: New Treatment Law Helps Mentally Ill Avoid Incarceration, Homelessness and Hospitalization DJ Jaffe 2010
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