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- noun Plural form of
dote . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dote .
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Examples
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Anecdotes from the world of last-ditch data recovery:
Dropped Your Powerbook in a Volcano? No Problem « Snarkmarket 2006
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Doesn't conventional wisdom have it that the more a mother "dotes" on her son, the more likely he's going to turn out effeminent or gay?
Question: What's going on at the University of Wisconsin? Ann Althouse 2009
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Doesn't conventional wisdom have it that the more a mother "dotes" on her son, the more likely he's going to turn out effeminent or gay?
Question: What's going on at the University of Wisconsin? Ann Althouse 2009
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"Doesn't conventional wisdom have it that the more a mother "dotes" on her son, the more likely he's going to turn out effeminent or gay?
Question: What's going on at the University of Wisconsin? Ann Althouse 2009
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He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends.
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His grandfather seems to have been the main male influence and his grandmother absolutely dotes on him.
Jackie K. Cooper: "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never": A Surface Look at His Life Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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"Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.
Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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His grandfather seems to have been the main male influence and his grandmother absolutely dotes on him.
Jackie K. Cooper: "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never": A Surface Look at His Life Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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"Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.
Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Isn't He Something movingly shows how the Mizner mama dotes on her scapegrace son.
Road Show – review 2011
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