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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
locate .
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Examples
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Marin locates the converse of this fetishistic masochism in "the sadism of the subject who is fascinated by the body of the King," exemplified as much in Wolcot as in the caricature that Marin goes on to analyze.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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Unlike a pronoun, a specific name locates, sums up, emphasizes an event that has been or will become; it is done to orientate (even if, as in a lie, to veil).
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Cristaudo, Wayne 2008
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At the same time, the introduction of voice (assuming no effective voice alteration software) closes down a whole range of other performative possibilities, because voice socially "locates" people so powerfully (like those darned Australians).
Mike fright 2006
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The other chapter, a survey of "Festivals of Revolution," locates "the celebratory May Day, a festive seizure of working-class initiative that encompassed demands for shorter hours, improvement in conditions, and socialist agitation and organization" against the backdrop of the traditional spring calendar of class confrontation.
Happy May Day ghostwes 2006
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Pasternak locates ground zero in Cane Valley, 30 miles northeast of Arizona's gorgeous red rock country, Monument Valley.
Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010
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Until finally she locates the killer and follows him in her car to her old intersection.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Shape of a Story, and Why We Tell/Read Stories 2009
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Though Maeve locates him quickly, their troubles have only begun, and they're soon caught in the crossfire of a heated battle between rich developers intent on gentrification and the last tenants at a decaying flophouse, a trio of old Jewish men calling themselves the Resistance.
Review of "On the Nickel," a mystery by John Shannon Art Taylor 2010
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Guided by MRI, the doctor locates and destroys fibroids with ablation and without making an incision.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: For Women of Child-Bearing Age, What to Know About Painful Fibroids M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Pasternak locates ground zero in Cane Valley, 30 miles northeast of Arizona's gorgeous red rock country, Monument Valley.
Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010
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Though Maeve locates him quickly, their troubles have only begun, and they're soon caught in the crossfire of a heated battle between rich developers intent on gentrification and the last tenants at a decaying flophouse, a trio of old Jewish men calling themselves the Resistance.
Review of "On the Nickel," a mystery by John Shannon Art Taylor 2010
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