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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dare .
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Examples
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But now that you have dared -- _dared_ to insult me and my family in such a way, I will tell you what I will do.
Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann
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Symes dared not -- _dared_ not, she told herself -- enforce his threats.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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I heard them many, many days ago -- yet I dared not -- I _dared not speak_!
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As if forcing himself to relax, Riker took a deep breath, but his expression dared Vaughn to prove him wrong.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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As if forcing himself to relax, Riker took a deep breath, but his expression dared Vaughn to prove him wrong.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...
Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010
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As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...
Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010
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As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...
Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010
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As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...
Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010
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In adapting the French text, Marin dared to think small and the chamber ensemble and chorus here indeed make much more of much less.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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