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- noun The act of
drying dishes after they have beenwashed up .
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Examples
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Nearly ten years later, another group of scientists studied the environmental changes in the northern Chad area during the past 6,000 years and came to the conclusion that the Sahara underwent a more progressive drying-up process.
Anuradha K. Herath: How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped the Sahara Anuradha K. Herath 2011
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Nearly ten years later, another group of scientists studied the environmental changes in the northern Chad area during the past 6,000 years and came to the conclusion that the Sahara underwent a more progressive drying-up process.
Anuradha K. Herath: How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped the Sahara Anuradha K. Herath 2011
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Ewald Nowotny, head of Austria's central bank, noted that the bank-recapitalization requirements could lead to a drying-up of new loans.
Split Decision: Notes of Caution Amid the Relief Brian Blackstone 2011
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The near collapse of the financial system that set off the global crisis was due in part to financial institutions suddenly lacking access to funding markets, and liquidity drying-up across securities markets.
Jeanne Gobat: Reducing the Chance of Pulling the Plug on Liquidity Jeanne Gobat 2011
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Much of Britain's overdraft is, as he insists, attributable to the drying-up of revenue rather than any great spending splurge, and the unspoken upshot is that general rises in taxation will ultimately have to help restore the books.
Labour and the deficit: Stumbling towards a strategy | Editorial 2011
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"While gold might be enjoying some safe-haven buying, we warn that should the euro-zone debt crisis result in a drying-up of the region's money markets, all commodities will suffer, including gold," he said.
Gold Jumps as Market Shifts Sights to Italy Tatyana Shumsky 2011
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Nearly ten years later, another group of scientists studied the environmental changes in the northern Chad area during the past 6,000 years and came to the conclusion that the Sahara underwent a more progressive drying-up process.
Anuradha K. Herath: How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped the Sahara Anuradha K. Herath 2011
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The near collapse of the financial system that set off the global crisis was due in part to financial institutions suddenly lacking access to funding markets, and liquidity drying-up across securities markets.
Jeanne Gobat: Reducing the Chance of Pulling the Plug on Liquidity Jeanne Gobat 2011
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To put it bluntly: the northern white rhino's gene pool is more accurately a rapidly drying-up gene puddle.
The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink 2010
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He added that liquidity was drying-up before the end of the year.
Asian Shares Mixed To Start Off Week Shri Navaratnam 2010
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