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engages

verb as in promise to marry

verb as in start a fight; attack

verb as in interconnect; bring into operation

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On the other end of the spectrum, there lies an artist like Lena Dunham, who engages in a flaunting of the flawed self.

There is little question that the UNABOM subject also engages in much symbolism.

She said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”

Through these subsidiaries BHI engages in data center consulting, design, maintenance, service, and cleaning.

And to be honest, when a celebrity engages in outrageous antics in public, they deserve what they get.

It is the crowning of my own life rather than that of the British Empire that engages my present thought.

Which runs directly into the throat of said Pragmatic Sanction; and engages to make it, mere waste sheepskin, so to speak!

Proudly the tall tribesmen walked among the engages—seeming to pay no heed, but the eye of an Indian misses nothing.

There is some ship-building, some brewing, with oyster and trawl fishing; the fishery engages nearly seven hundred persons.

The slugs and ounce balls slapped into the dirt from the muskets of the creole engages and they were losing warrior after warrior.

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On this page you'll find 257 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to engages, such as: employ, enlist, appoint, charter, secure, and enroll.

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

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