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- adjective given formally or officially.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confer .
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Examples
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At the breakfast table she eats jam insouciantly with her fingers, and as the crisis emerges, she is uniquely able to placate Claire's child Leo, demonstrating an intuitive wisdom and coming into her own as "Auntie Steel-breaker", the name conferred upon her by said nephew.
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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When he was eighteen years old he had won the title of Scholastic King of Bridge, a designation conferred by the American Contract Bridge League upon the best high school-age player in the country.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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When he was eighteen years old he had won the title of Scholastic King of Bridge, a designation conferred by the American Contract Bridge League upon the best high school-age player in the country.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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James I., while following in the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth, and refusing to acknowledge the title conferred by the Emperor, acknowledged Sir
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By way of expressing his gratitude for the title conferred upon him, he sent an invitation to the king to visit him at his mine, assuring his majesty that if he would confer on him such an exalted favor, his majesty's feet should not tread upon the ground while he was in the New World.
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There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter, with Dejah
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter, with Dejah Thoris.
'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter, with Dejah
Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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There is a happy ending to the storv in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter, with Drjah Thoris.
Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907
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[191] This was the title conferred on Christopher Columbus by the
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