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  • For other people, it's an ability to read others, and those people—with an innate ability to draw on memories, common sense, and experience and to codify it quickly and accurately—manifest an ability that strikes others as being supernatural.†  (source)
  • This son of Savannah had codified the rules of conduct for ladies and gentlemen.†  (source)
  • So the deuteronomists codified the religion.†  (source)
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  • The international basis for this is the Salvage Convention of 1910 (Brussels), which codified the transnational nature of admiralty and salvage law.†  (source)
  • [15] Authors' & Printers' Dictionary ...an attempt to codify the best typographical practices of the present day, by F. Howard Collins; 4th ed., revised by Horace Hart; London, 1912†  (source)
  • It literally means "apartness" and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • They were in the process of being codified into law when Hsu called Day.†  (source)
  • They sang as though, by singing, they could bring about the codification and the immortality of innocence.†  (source)
  • I was too young to be a Red Guard where my brutality would have been codified.†  (source)
  • You should have been on the constitution, codification, and organization committee, but he made himself chairman and left you out.†  (source)
  • "Codified into its very being," said Valentine.†  (source)
  • These started with committee reports— the committee on food resources and natural conservation, the committees on artifacts and inventory, on waste disposal and camp sanitation, on exterior security, on human resources and labor allotment, on recruitment and immigration, on conservation of arts and sciences, on constitution, codification, and justice, on food preparation, on housing and city planning— Cowper seemed to enjoy the endless talk and Rod was forced to admit that the others appeared to have a good time, too— he surprised himself by discovering that he too looked forward to the evenings.†  (source)
  • In the minds of teenagers a decade later, they seem to have codified some expressions.†  (source)
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