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Example sentences from the Web for readiesBut you must put all fun and games aside by Friday as Mercury, squaring Jupiter, readies to enter your sign. What the Stars Hold for Your Week, June 26-July 2, 2011|Starsky + Cox|June 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST As Obama readies his health-care speech tonight, Sarah Palin is on the offensive again, railing against "death panels." Bring On the Death Panels!|Eric Pape|September 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST But meanwhile he gains no real strength, he readies no new height of contemplation. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times|Thomas Hill Green He 'readies up the broads,' as he terms it, by cutting all the high cards convex, and the low ones concave. Sharps and Flats|John Nevil Maskelyne
Can a Tartar be said to cook, when he only readies his steak by riding on it? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History|Thomas Carlyle A gale of wind, accompanied with heavy rain, often readies its climax just about the dawn. Hodge and His Masters|Richard Jefferies The fact that he was not so billed made him realise what a small part of any secret ever readies the general ear. The Mayor of Warwick|Herbert M. Hopkins
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pl n the readiesinformal a variant of ready (def. 8) Word Origin for readiesfrom ready money Words nearby readiesread between the lines, readdress, Reade, reader, readership, readies, readily, read in, readiness, reading, reading chair Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to readiesfit, provide, fix, gird, equip, brace, arrange, warm up, organize, get, strengthen, make, brief, set, fortify, post, order, prep, clear the decks, fill in |