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  • noun Plural form of comer.

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Examples

  • While both those actors could probably do a fair job, I think there are certainly better options out there to portray captain america among up and comers from a variety of television shows.

    Joe Johnston to Direct Captain America | /Film 2008

  • Similarly, if you want to set up an action group, you need to decide what your action will be, and retain control of it – opening the mailing list to all comers is not a responsible way to run an organisation.

    Prism « Sven’s guide to… 2006

  • On the morrow, the King made a wedding-feast to which he gathered all comers from the Islands of the Inner and

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the pressure to play events for up-and-comers is fierce.

    USATODAY.com - Injuries still an issue for top women 2004

  • The proper selection of the new comers is one of greatest importance.

    British Settlement in Canada 1933

  • In that period of fifteen years the population increased from 18,000 to 40,000, accounted for partly by the large number of new-comers from the British Isles, and partly by the several railroad lines that were begun in the province.

    Old Toronto 1925

  • Oo-koo-koo, complacent in his own sagacity in having detected a difference in the speech of the new-comers from the English which he had been accustomed to hear in Charlestown, and animated by a wish to believe, hearkened with the more credulity to an expansive fiction detailed by the specious Irishman as to their mission here.

    The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Public schools take all comers, which is as it should be.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • Public schools take all comers, which is as it should be.

    Teacher Appeals to New President on NCLB Jim Horn 2009

  • I certainly think that I've tried to maintain a tone and my White House has tried to maintain a tone that is open to all comers, that is not sharply partisan.

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2009 2009

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