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- verb Present participle of
tatter .
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Examples
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Unfortunately, after two years of heavy losses, the brand was already tattering.
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Unfortunately, after two years of heavy losses, the brand was already tattering.
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After tattering the Mets' roster, injuries are now taking their toll on the team's media relations department.
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Hands down he is one of the most alluring actors of recent years; he elevates Inglourious Basterds to acting heights when it is tattering to its end.
Oscar Preview: Bringing Up Oscar (A Full Preview of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards) 2010
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The .45-caliber rounds blew the glass out of the back and side windows and stitched across the doors, ripping stuffing out of the seats, exploding a side mirror, tattering the hood, flattening a tire in under a second.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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The .45-caliber rounds blew the glass out of the back and side windows and stitched across the doors, ripping stuffing out of the seats, exploding a side mirror, tattering the hood, flattening a tire in under a second.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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One of the sacrifices they made is the tattering of a glamorized entertainment myth of war and fighting in the face of bloody reality and burned indelibly upon their mind's eyes, and upon their hearts.
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The .45-caliber rounds blew the glass out of the back and side windows and stitched across the doors, ripping stuffing out of the seats, exploding a side mirror, tattering the hood, flattening a tire in under a second.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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What's more, facing over-capacity and bad debt, they are furiously engaged in holding together the tattering economy in the rough seas of the global Great Recession.
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Because, apart from seeing the sort of World War II things we have already witnessed this year and in many other films, there is an honesty and freshness in John's relationship with Maurice, which keeps the tattering fabric from shredding.
Michael Russnow: Good the Movie is Only Somewhat So: Another Nazi Film About a Flawed Relationship 2009
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