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  • verb Present participle of trump.

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  • noun (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit

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Examples

  • Sashal, I suspect very little of that survived Texas v. Johnson, so it’s not going to help much in trumping the absurd California statute.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » California High School Sends Kids Home for Wearing American Flag on Cinco de Mayo 2010

  • It’s tactics at the cost of strategy, short term trumping long term.

    Why You Should be Ignoring Your Search Results | Impact Lab 2005

  • If the Comcast rep is right about the website terms trumping the terms on the brochure, then it was the consumer's responsibility to check the website and make sure that it is "unlimited usage" and not "unlimited access."

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

  • And that, between the loss, losing the war in Iraq and losing our jobs, is kind of trumping other concerns.

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2007 2007

  • Hear that dreary blunderer, who has unwittingly contradicted what his chief has just asserted -- "trumping," as it were, "his partner's trick."

    Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

  • Well, I don't see how the framing of "fairness 'trumping' the right to discriminate" could possibly be wrong. the Supreme Court should have 10 justices, and when there was a 5-5 split, there would be a deathmatch between one of each of the opposing sides to determine the verdict.

    MetaTalk bearwife 2010

  • Well, I don't see how the framing of "fairness 'trumping' the right to discriminate" could possibly be wrong. the Supreme Court should have 10 justices, and when there was a 5-5 split, there would be a deathmatch between one of each of the opposing sides to determine the verdict.

    MetaTalk bearwife 2010

  • Well, I don't see how the framing of "fairness 'trumping' the right to discriminate" could possibly be wrong. the Supreme Court should have 10 justices, and when there was a 5-5 split, there would be a deathmatch between one of each of the opposing sides to determine the verdict.

    MetaTalk bearwife 2010

  • Well, I don't see how the framing of "fairness 'trumping' the right to discriminate" could possibly be wrong. the Supreme Court should have 10 justices, and when there was a 5-5 split, there would be a deathmatch between one of each of the opposing sides to determine the verdict.

    MetaTalk bearwife 2010

  • PM-in-waiting Najib Razak has scored a major coup by 'trumping' Anwar Ibrahim in the defection game.

    Malaysiakini 2009

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