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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
masticate .
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The food, when thoroughly masticated, is conveyed by another channel to the third stomach or many-plies, where it is subjected to muscular action; and, finally, it is conveyed into the fourth stomach, or red bag, which contains the gastric juice, and which in calves is the part used for rennet; and here the process of digestion is completed.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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And a general weariness in having the same conversation about genre versus the mainstream that crops up whenever a young'un who hasn't bothered to read anything published on the internet over the last decade gets the bright idea to write in haphazard fashion about a topic that's like the same piece of gum masticated for a month.
[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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She fits the words in between small mouthfuls that she chews assiduously, her brown rice cud masticated to sweet grainy liquid before she swallows it down.
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Obama and the Democrats might have tried to educate voters on their terms, push the debate forward, and control the narrative before the maw of Fox News and right-wing radio masticated it into slurry.
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media Joseph A. Palermo 2010
hernesheir commented on the word masticated
(p.p.) chewed (food).
(n) masticate. To chew (food) from Late Latin masticare to chew.
December 31, 2008