Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, same as
declinate , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Declinate.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
decline .
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Examples
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After being criticized for releasing stridently homophobic recordings by the comedian Andrew Dice Clay, the label declined an album by Houston rappers the Geto Boys that included a track, “Mind of a Lunatic,” which described murdering a woman and having sex with her corpse.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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After being criticized for releasing stridently homophobic recordings by the comedian Andrew Dice Clay, the label declined an album by Houston rappers the Geto Boys that included a track, “Mind of a Lunatic,” which described murdering a woman and having sex with her corpse.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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After being criticized for releasing stridently homophobic recordings by the comedian Andrew Dice Clay, the label declined an album by Houston rappers the Geto Boys that included a track, “Mind of a Lunatic,” which described murdering a woman and having sex with her corpse.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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After being criticized for releasing stridently homophobic recordings by the comedian Andrew Dice Clay, the label declined an album by Houston rappers the Geto Boys that included a track, “Mind of a Lunatic,” which described murdering a woman and having sex with her corpse.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Presented as a single by Jagger to fulfill a contractual obligation to DECCA records, the label declined to release it.
FAQ: Welcome to the Rolling Stones' Mailing list FAQ list Version 1.08 1994
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A spokeswoman for the label declined to comment on his arrest Thursday.
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His observation that middle-class support for Evo Morales has declined is not a statement about whether it should have declined.
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Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for three of the year ` s five status changes: Benin declined from Free to Partly Free, and both the Central African Republic and Niger moved into the Not Free column owing to authorities ` attempts to limit news coverage, particularly in conflict areas.
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NRCC spokesman Ken Spain declined to reveal the size of the ad buy but described it as "significant."
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Still, its population has declined from a high of almost 700,000 in the mid-20th century to roughly 300,000 today.
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