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- verb nonstandard Alternative spelling of
anoint .
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Examples
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Well, many of her supporters are hoping for a MIRACLE and that the Super Delegates will "annoint" her the heir appearant or that she will pull a Joe Lieberman and run Independent.
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The parties both pre 'annoint' candidates and hand out their scripts.
Why Obama? 2007
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The parties both pre 'annoint' candidates and hand out their scripts.
Why Obama? 2007
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a Wall Street Journal article that shares his skepticism of this new funding, which will (in their words) "annoint" new technological and corporate "winners" -- something the Journal clearly sees as an unnecessary intrusion of government on free markets.
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Your comments are true, but consider: Most folks writing are compelled to pen what a relatively small group (agents & publishers) annoint as “what the public wants.”
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The Republican convention in Tampa in August will formally annoint the party's presidential nominee.
Mitt Romney reclaims position as GOP frontrunner with crushing Florida win 2012
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The apology was rendered because of the outcry, I'm sure when the nut bags on Fox annoint him their new hero he will take it back.
Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say 2009
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On the othe hand, everyone was very happy to annoint Tim Tebow a 'winner' after a few comeback victories with the Broncos this season, yet Flacco has proved over a lot longer period that he knows how to win games in this league.
Baltimore Ravens 20 New England Patriots 23 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2012
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Brown is going to try to hang on for another year, and his party are going to try to oust him in time to annoint a new leader before the electoral disaster to follow.
Tinker, Failure, Something, Pie « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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I think since blog reviews and reviewers are so new it will take time to see who is reputable and stands the tests of time (like the print reviewers had to do) to those who annoint themselves reviewers.
Publishers and bloggers Roger Sutton 2009
mollusque commented on the word annoint
Variant of anoint.
November 30, 2008
jayzie_cyr commented on the word annoint
Anoint-to consecrate or make sacred in a ceremony that includes the token applying of oil
February 12, 2010
yarb commented on the word annoint
Oh pointy birds!
February 13, 2010