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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
jawbone .
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Examples
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Did we overlook when you "jawboned" the medical establishment (with private, sweetheart deals) or when top aides, invariably representing the "fortunate few," offered blarney but no job creation to "hardworking people" no longer working, hard or otherwise.
The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy 2010
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Halladay, who jawboned his way into being traded to a contending team so he finally could pitch in the playoffs, made a stunning debut, culminating with a dribbler in front of home plate that catcher Carlos Ruiz pounced on and threw to first for the final out.
Top Moments: Rethinking Kanye West, the Beatles and The Event 2010
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To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Big oil will make more money and like we saw when Dubbyah ‘jawboned’ the price of gas down to 4 bucks a gallon [snark] the oil companies made a record profit.
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To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Yet unlike the systemic risk problem, which is endlessly jawboned in Washington today, no one is really talking about the dispersion of responsibility problem.
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Yet unlike the systemic risk problem, which is endlessly jawboned in Washington today, no one is really talking about the dispersion of responsibility problem.
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Lyndon Johnson, a veteran of Senate arm-twisting and cajoling, jawboned to forestall airline and railroad strikes and such.
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