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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wink.

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Examples

  • His sword winked out, and then his armor as he gasped and clutched at his throat in a way that reminded the dwarf grotesquely of his nephew Joffrey's death.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • His sword winked out, and then his armor as he gasped and clutched at his throat in a way that reminded the dwarf grotesquely of his nephew Joffrey's death.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • However, gender apartheid is often "winked" at, minimized and certainly accepted at the most powerful and monied levels of our society.

    Tiger's Potential Bully Pulpit 2010

  • He hasn't met the president-elect, but "we kind of winked at each other" at a rally in June, he said.

    Electoral College Meets to Begin Final Steps 2008

  • I found his profile and "winked" at him because I thought he was cute.

    katress Diary Entry katress 2006

  • Final round, par three, 16th hole, Woods is trying to get it close, and did he ever, leading Chris DeMarco by a stroke after this shot here went toward the hole, stalled, kind of winked at the audience hanging out there and then just got one more revolution, and in.

    CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2005 2005

  • But some people kind of winked and nodded and skirted the issue.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2003 2003

  • And so I just -- I kind of winked at the cameraman.

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2002 2002

  • They would undergo any hardships or risks for gain, and while our government may not have openly countenanced their traffic, still it was thought they "winked" at it.

    History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

  • Sly-scheming Hermes "winked" knowingly at Jupiter when he was

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Various

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