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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.

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Examples

  • Mine action since 1999 had removed 2.2 million "emplaced" antipersonnel mines; destroyed

    ReliefWeb - Headlines 2009

  • Seniors are already missing consistent Checkups because of the emplaced Co-Payments.

    Social Security Ad Nauseum, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • "Although certainly a Christian symbol, the cross was not emplaced on Sunrise Rock to promote a Christian message," Justice Anthony Kennedy said of the cross first put up in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

    Justices allow cross on public land in California 2010

  • The Communists put more than 4,000 laborers to work repairing the Toksan Dam and emplaced antiaircraft defenses around it.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • For this purpose he emplaced around that base at least two divisions of North Vietnamese regulars.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • For this purpose he emplaced around that base at least two divisions of North Vietnamese regulars.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • They emplaced the EASEP geophysical package, including a laser reflection array that is still being used by earth-based astronomers.

    Moon Pirates - NASA Watch 2009

  • For this purpose he emplaced around that base at least two divisions of North Vietnamese regulars.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • When this flip happens, which can be done with about 1 megawatt of emplaced solar power, then the net flow of goods back toward the earth can become positive.

    A Shift in Policy? Moon Base Axed? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Standard Romulan procedure would have been to decommission emplaced weapons by self-destruction, Worf went on.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

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