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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
imbibe .
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Examples
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We doubt Barbie, with the goal of preserving her figure, actually imbibes or eats any of these items.
The Barbie Closet: A Tweenage Dream Marshall Heyman 2012
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The typical parent, at all income levels, imbibes the fiction that it is their responsibility to take away the struggle in their children's lives.
Richard Watts: We Don't Spoil Our Children Anymore -- We Entitle Them Richard Watts 2011
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I have not imbibed in a very long time, I tell him, and fear that such a thing will give me gas, but he persuades me to come into an establishment he knows and to bend an elbow with a pint of something pale and weak while he imbibes a beverage of a more muscular variety.
Michael Winship: Making Ends Meet in Coin-Operated Washington Michael Winship 2010
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And fittingly, because today is Cinco de Mayo, Hellboy imbibes a lot of tequila along the way.
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The typical parent, at all income levels, imbibes the fiction that it is their responsibility to take away the struggle in their children's lives.
Richard Watts: We Don't Spoil Our Children Anymore -- We Entitle Them Richard Watts 2011
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The typical parent, at all income levels, imbibes the fiction that it is their responsibility to take away the struggle in their children's lives.
Richard Watts: We Don't Spoil Our Children Anymore -- We Entitle Them Richard Watts 2011
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I have not imbibed in a very long time, I tell him, and fear that such a thing will give me gas, but he persuades me to come into an establishment he knows and to bend an elbow with a pint of something pale and weak while he imbibes a beverage of a more muscular variety.
Michael Winship: Making Ends Meet in Coin-Operated Washington Michael Winship 2010
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Vampire tale 'Let Me In' successfully imbibes the essence of the Swedish original.
'Social Network': Password Is Perfection Joe Morgenstern 2010
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The typical parent, at all income levels, imbibes the fiction that it is their responsibility to take away the struggle in their children's lives.
Richard Watts: We Don't Spoil Our Children Anymore -- We Entitle Them Richard Watts 2011
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She's not confined to prison but to an institution where workers can monitor what she imbibes.
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