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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decorate .
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Examples
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Virenque, a renowned climber whose name decorates the roads of the Tour's steepest stages.
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A nymph from Syracuse is framed in the coinage that decorates bags, which also suggest the ancient Roman world in their colors of sand and clay.
NYT > Home Page By SUZY MENKES 2011
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SQLAlchemy "decorates" classes with non-intrusive property accessors to automatically log object creates and modifications with the UnitOfWork engine, to lazyload related data, as well as to track attribute change histories.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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SQLAlchemy "decorates" classes with non-intrusive property accessors to automatically log object creates and modifications with the UnitOfWork engine, to lazyload related data, as well as to track attribute change histories.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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SQLAlchemy "decorates" classes with non-intrusive property accessors to automatically log object creates and modifications with the UnitOfWork engine, to lazyload related data, as well as to track attribute change histories.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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SQLAlchemy "decorates" classes with non-intrusive property accessors to automatically log object creates and modifications with the UnitOfWork engine, to lazyload related data, as well as to track attribute change histories.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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This sick individual first "decorates" his victims before killing them with a saw or asphyxiation by spray-on snow.
Laughing Squid 2009
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"decorates" her walls -- when success means not so much painting fine pictures as building fine houses to paint in -- the greatest compliment you can pay to a man of genius is surely to call him either a beggar or a madman. '
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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S. frondaria both (i) modifies its body coloration-from light brown to dark red to golden yellow to whitish grey-depending on its environment's color; and (ii) "decorates" itself with plant material found in this environment-pedals, leaves, etc. -by attaching such materials to its back with silk (see this journal article: here, and another shot by someone else is below.
Ethical Technology IEET 2010
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Photograph by Adam Golfer Amanpour acquired this painting, which decorates her study, 20 years ago, when she visited the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, South Africa.
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