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conferred

adjective as in presented

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"The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun.'"

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I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.

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Whatever costs—in time, money and potentially even personal liberty—these legal actions bring may be more than offset by the halo of martyrdom conferred on the defendant.

The Americans who drafted and ratified this sentence plainly understood that it conferred citizenship upon American-born children of aliens.

With the bill pending, Republicans conferred behind closed doors and quietly dropped the bill.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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