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- verb Present participle of
deputize .
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Examples
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Q General, have you moved forward on the idea of deputizing local and state officials to seize marijuana or to arrest people?
Mccaffrey Pena And Mccurry Briefing On Drug Meeting ITY National Archives 1996
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The same goes for 'deputizing' or encouraging citizens to do this with other citizens.
Marty Robins: Environment Matters...but So Does Freedom! Marty Robins 2010
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The same goes for 'deputizing' or encouraging citizens to do this with other citizens.
Marty Robins: Environment Matters...but So Does Freedom! Marty Robins 2010
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Judges have also begun to question the company's practices of "deputizing" hundreds of bank executives to handle foreclosures by naming them "vice presidents" of MERS.
MERS CEO to Leave Company Nick Timiraos 2011
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The same goes for 'deputizing' or encouraging citizens to do this with other citizens.
Marty Robins: Environment Matters...but So Does Freedom! Marty Robins 2010
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It was Ganthet who first gave Kyle Rayner a Green Lantern ring, and he was also integral in "deputizing" Lanterns across the spectrum during "Blackest Night."
Comic Book Resources 2010
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It remains unknown whether the generals had wanted Mubarak to resign outright and he resisted, resulting in a compromise of the transfer to Suleiman — but the confusion Thursday suggested that deputizing Suleiman had not been the generals' preferred choice.
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Grey shoots the video himself, deputizing his son to shoot the 'drive by' shots.
Steve Rosenbaum: The People Powered Web Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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Grey shoots the video himself, deputizing his son to shoot the 'drive by' shots.
Steve Rosenbaum: The People Powered Web Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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It remains unknown whether the generals had wanted Mubarak to resign outright and he resisted, resulting in a compromise of the transfer to Suleiman — but the confusion Thursday suggested that deputizing Suleiman had not been the generals' preferred choice.
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