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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
behold .
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Examples
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Now for sensations of sheer impotence, nothing can compare with a jack-pole, when the horrified driver beholds his leaders prancing gaily up the road and his wheelers jogging steadily down the road, all at the same time and all harnessed together and to the same rig.
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From a public relations standpoint, the utter lack of diplomacy in such expressions as Zubik's reveals how out of touch the Catholic hierarchy is with what the worlds sees when it beholds the church.
Michele Somerville: Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status Michele Somerville 2011
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The man who wants to limit himself to what is knowable in exact terms is caught up in the crisis of reality: he beholds the withdrawal of truth.
"The basic form of Christian faith is not: I believe something, but I believe you." 2009
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Mr. Ghent beholds the capitalist class rising to dominate the state and the working class; Mr. Brooks beholds the working class rising to dominate the state and the capitalist class.
A REVIEW 2010
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The man who wants to limit himself to what is knowable in exact terms is caught up in the crisis of reality: he beholds the withdrawal of truth.
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The man who wants to limit himself to what is knowable in exact terms is caught up in the crisis of reality: he beholds the withdrawal of truth.
It "deals with the largest issues, and does so in a way..." 2009
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Borges descends into the basement and immediately beholds the Aleph:
Telling Tails Tim O 2009
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But for me what gives the story its ultimate power — its exquisitely imagined beauty — is the moment at which Borges beholds the unbelievable, obscene, detailed letters that the love of his life had written to Carlos Argentino, that pompous ass upstairs.
Telling Tails Tim O 2009
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How The Big Bang Theory's gang of geeks beholds the John-and-Yoko relationship of "Shamy," aka Sheldon and the even more arrogant Amy (the very funny Mayim Bialik). ...
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The man who wants to limit himself to what is knowable in exact terms is caught up in the crisis of reality: he beholds the withdrawal of truth.
New Releases 2009
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