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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
masticate .
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Examples
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Is it really so important to pay the NYT to tell you that Mr. Man masticates Canine?
Matthew Yglesias » NYT Going Paid: What Does It Mean for Me? 2010
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Winkler's piece is nice, and Joe Wiesenthal masticates it here, and Robert Wenzel here.
How Buffett Was Bailed Out -- Kinda, Sorta, But Yeah, Really 2009
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As he masticates, he expounds on his theory that god has sent him to me, me being variously a "classy young lady", "a lady of very high calibre", "the prettiest thing on Yonge", and so many other cornball lines that I just stop listening.
What the FUCK was I Thinking? Jay 2007
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As he masticates, he expounds on his theory that god has sent him to me, me being variously a "classy young lady", "a lady of very high calibre", "the prettiest thing on Yonge", and so many other cornball lines that I just stop listening.
Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007
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You see, many years of eating have led us into two distinct factions that are locked in a perpetual ideological struggle over what one masticates and ingurgitates.
Archive 2005-08-01 RICHARD 2005
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You see, many years of eating have led us into two distinct factions that are locked in a perpetual ideological struggle over what one masticates and ingurgitates.
Utopia On My Plate RICHARD 2005
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Joyce masticates Homer's Odyssey and spits it out in his saga of a day
'Ulysses' in Chinese 1995
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Watch a monkey eating nuts and see how thoroughly he masticates each particle.
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After it has been in the second stomach for some time, and whenever the buffalo feels ready for it, the food comes back into the mouth, and he then bites or masticates it just as long as he likes.
Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin
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Watch the innocent in bristles as he places his graceful right paw upon the ear of corn, while he shells and masticates.
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