Definitions
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- noun a person who rules or commands
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Examples
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In the face of floating pass after floating pass, the Chileans hunker down, serious feeling, a slow swayer, tectonic tragedy in their heart but motion in their feet.
Pop World Cup 2010: Group H – Chile 1 Honduras 3 | FreakyTrigger 2010
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"He is the most premeditated and best- synchronized swayer in his profession," Liebling wrote of Archie Moore—what a sentence!
The Bards of Bruising Tim Marchman 2011
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Reed Bunting sedge-scuttler; swayer; a cool perch
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They must have gotten a lot of emails and calls to have swayer make a correction.
Elizabeth Edwards Writes To Slate's John Dickerson: No, We Aren't Exploiting My Cancer 2009
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She'd never be a swayer, but studying then practicing Nancy's amazing taffy walk brought such significant change.
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Ai had four yeers ob Spanish, an jes toodai ai proobed dat ai nose swayer wurds, but cud nawt hoald daon a conbersayshun in it.
Roomba Cat Goes For A Ride - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ephesus, in which Lydian damsels greatly reverence thee; and thou, our national goddess, swayer of the aegis, Minerva, guardian of the city!
Clouds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The swayer in hammocks may find amusement and may enrich science by his record of observations; his memory will be more vivid, his caste the worthier, for the intimacy with wild things achieved when swinging between earth and sky, unfettered by mattress or roof.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Left alone, Hector Strong, lord of journalism and swayer of empires, resumed his pacings.
Happy Days 1919
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The great Hector Strong, lord of journalism and swayer of empires, paced the floor of his luxurious apartment with bowed head, his corrugated countenance furrowed with lines of anxiety.
Happy Days 1919
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