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- verb Present participle of
trammel .
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Examples
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Arguably, on the other hand, it is the very trammeling of such inquiry that open-records laws seek to avoid by providing the means to the public to sift and winnow.
Brec Cooke: Washington Post, New York Times Fail on FOIA Brec Cooke 2011
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Even the newspaper editorial boards -- or, more precisely perhaps, their publishers -- applauded and said trammeling on a public vote was statesmanship.
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I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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I tried for the good-publicity approach but he went for door number two: the fascists trammeling free press.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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I'm one of those antediluvian killjoys who have always found them a mind-numbing, headache-inducing, imagination-trammeling, morally desensitizing, graphically violent and misogynistic waste of time.
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Oh, and despite Hillary's trumpeting, McCain is going to keep troops in Iraq for god knows how long, and probably keep Bush's track record of trammeling our reputation with the rest of the world.
New Toy Steven Barnes 2008
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Rather, such abuse constitutes serious trammeling of civil liberties and-still worse-can tip the precarious balance of constitutional checks and balances.
Why Did Bush Run Around the Low-Hurdle of FISA and Wiretap Without After-the-fact Permission? 2006
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