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- verb Present participle of
busy .
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Examples
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I understand the idea of busying yourself with some task to keep yourself from falling apart, but the way they're doing it doesn't ring true to me.
unknown title 2009
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She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Right now the GOP is busying pocketing as much money as possible before the Corporations appoint the new President of the USA.
Think Progress » For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. 2010
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It's a question all education leaders, politicians, and the chattering classes have been busying themselves with since the release of Davis Guggenheim's searing (and unflattering) documentary.
Steve Barr At Big Task Weekend: We're Close, But We're Still Just 'Cute' Huffington Post 2010
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Typically, the final Bosnian peace accord - that remarkable achievement in modern world history - was reached at the very moment when Speaker Newt Gingrich was, typically, busying himself with what he had called, when threatening it, a "train wreck" - closing down the U.S. Government!
Nigel Hamilton: Rahm Is Going Nigel Hamilton 2010
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She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Pearl Hand sat beside me, busying herself with sharpening her hierro knife.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Pearl Hand sat beside me, busying herself with sharpening her hierro knife.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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