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"ref": "1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384",
"text": "I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.",
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"ref": "1991, Fidelis Odun Balogun, Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story",
"text": "We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1996 November 15, Mac Brent Milleur, “Same script, different ending”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.mil-bucks (Usenet)",
"text": "Glenn needed to use his strength- get verticle and jumpshoot- to out athletize Mullin, but only really did this once.",
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"text": "You won't athletize without regular exercise."
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"To get athletic or act in an athletic way."
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"(intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way."
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"ref": "1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296",
"text": "To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.",
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"ref": "1926, Arthur Stringer, Cristina and I",
"text": "But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.",
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{
"ref": "1999 January 6, colin odden, “A drummer that NO ONE can copy!”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet)",
"text": "Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2009 December 17, Jonathan P., “My apologies”, in pcclass (Usenet)",
"text": "My apologies to Albert for de-athletizing him. Who am I to make such a decision?",
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},
{
"text": "Months of training finally athletized my skinny body."
}
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"To make athletic."
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"(transitive) To make athletic."
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"ref": "1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384",
"text": "I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Fidelis Odun Balogun, Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story",
"text": "We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996 November 15, Mac Brent Milleur, “Same script, different ending”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.mil-bucks (Usenet)",
"text": "Glenn needed to use his strength- get verticle and jumpshoot- to out athletize Mullin, but only really did this once.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"text": "You won't athletize without regular exercise."
}
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"(intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way."
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"ref": "1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296",
"text": "To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Arthur Stringer, Cristina and I",
"text": "But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999 January 6, colin odden, “A drummer that NO ONE can copy!”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet)",
"text": "Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 December 17, Jonathan P., “My apologies”, in pcclass (Usenet)",
"text": "My apologies to Albert for de-athletizing him. Who am I to make such a decision?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "Months of training finally athletized my skinny body."
}
],
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"To make athletic."
],
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"(transitive) To make athletic."
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