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Meanings of sere in English

(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.

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Examples for "swf"
Examples for "swf"
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The tangent drawn here passes through the optimum selected by the SWF.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
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I don't think SWFs will buy a stock just because it's cheap.
Reuters
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SWFs might spread the risk by seeding several firms in the same sector.
Reuters
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Apple needs to allow SWF content on the iPhone and iPad.
Reuters
5
Two days later, he and our travel-loving SWF scheduled a date.
While galileo preys
Usage of sere in English
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He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
2
Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf.
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
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The horizon was merely a blue haze-andthe endless land was sere.
The River and I
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The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
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Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere.
The Sheriff's Son
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The fields showed sere and grayly lifeless in the patches between sodden snow-swathes.
Further Adventures of Lad
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The sere stubble fields brooded in glamour, and the sky was pearly blue.
The Story Girl
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There were sere and brown leaves still fluttering on the scrub-oaks.
The Call of the Canyon
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Here is flesh cooked sere as the shell of a tortoise.
The Coming of the King
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Then sends down a sere Verdasco can only just get a racket on.
The Guardian
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She considered through blinding tears a little patch of sere grass.
Lewis Rand
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The wardrobe is of tweed, linen and calico and tends to the sere.
The Guardian
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The land below wasn't just sere; it was also rough.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Many leaves were yet left on the boughs; but they were sere and withered.
"My Novel" — Volume 09
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Its sere grasses, protruding out of the snow, hissed and bent in the wind.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
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He took to proverbs; sure sign of the sere leaf in a man's mind.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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