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- verb UK, Canada Simple past tense and past participle of
distil . - verb US Simple past tense and past participle of
distill .
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Examples
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This clear and simple method has been distilled from a life spent listening to and reading Zionist propaganda.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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My point, distilled, is how do you coppers feel when you see this Goverment making more and more laws that tend to isolate you from your natural alies, the law-abiding public?
Consultation My Arse! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Or they remember what they distilled from the Hollywood version of the Bible.
Kenneth C. Davis: Americans Don't Know Much About the Bible -- Still! Kenneth C. Davis 2010
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Dame Stella has once again distilled her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 into a spy novel of arresting psychological complexity and unflagging suspense.
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In 1999, the championship fight again distilled into a battle between Ferrari and McLaren, but at the penultimate race, both Ferraris were disqualified when their 'bargeboards' (aerodynamic appendages behind the front wheels) were found to be outside the mandatory dimensions.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Following are 21 tips distilled from the 35 given during the panel session.
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The question is; 2 pieces of dialysis tubing were filled with different solution and immersed in distilled water in a boiling tube: Set-upA (dialysis tubing) contains 4cm cube each of starch solution n distilled water, n Set-upB (dialysis tubing) contains 4cm cube each of starch solution, glucose solution n digestive juiceX.
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Conceding the absence of a rational framework a priori, the Scottish political economists and their utilitarian successors thus argue for the self-regulation of reason as a framework that will eventually and involuntarily be distilled from the unchecked pursuit of so many interests and motives.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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NYT writer drinks NASA water distilled from the finest astronaut pee and sweat.
Boing Boing 2008
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If the beverage distilled from the agave has less than 51% fermented sugars obtained from blue agave, it cannot be called tequila.
Cooking with Tequila: Mexico's National Drink Moves Into The Kitchen, part 1 2006
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