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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
contribute .
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Examples
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What makes you think that everyone who contributes is an American or Lives In America and therefore will appreciate your lack of sense of humour.
New Full Length Incredible Hulk Trailer Finally Released! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The canvas to which Palin's comment contributes is one of establishing 'otherness'.
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Paul Griffin contributes a poem about alliteration, the device that uses repeated sounds: “Some writers rate readers as rotten and ratty/And treat them to tricks that are terribly tatty.”
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Paul Griffin contributes a poem about alliteration, the device that uses repeated sounds: “Some writers rate readers as rotten and ratty/And treat them to tricks that are terribly tatty.”
E.O. Parrott’s Witty Guide to the Different Kinds of Poetry « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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To the extent that I understand what I am saying, I understand the particular differences that the expression contributes to the statements, questions, commands, etc. that I make with it.
Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007
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If it can't be published in a letter to the editor, it shouldn't be published as a comment, especially when the name calling contributes nothing to the argument.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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SARS digital folk art, exhibit "T": Susannah Breslin contributes
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Not surprisingly, HLS's own Jonathan Zittrain contributes a quote. posted by nerdlaw. org at
nerdlaw.org 2003
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It is this emphasis on individual circumstances and character that again contributes to the value of the "Memorandum" as a piece of history.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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On top of this the light chain contributes with more than 10 000 variants.
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