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Definition of Filibustered
1. filibuster [v] - See also: filibuster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filibustered
Literary usage of Filibustered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"What State, what territory in this Union has not been filibustered from the
Indians, or purchased from those who h&d filibustered it ? ..."
2. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1903)
"V 8. atty. for Eastern Dist. of Pa., 1896-1900; prosecuted many important criminal
cases, convicting the Cuban filibustered, ..."
3. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"... filibustered one hour and 30 min his way through [Country 16], using different
altitudes, positions and estimates that he told [Country 16's] Military ..."
4. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1919)
"I have sat here and filibustered day after day in silence refusing to vote, but
I cannot now recall that I ever did it for a high or a noble or a worthy ..."
5. Woodrow Wilson and His Work by William Edward Dodd (1921)
"Now, three senators, led by Sherman of Illinois, with the consent of Lodge and
Johnson, themselves aspirants to the presidency, filibustered to death all ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"The United States have themselves been to a certain extent filibustered in the
same way. The Irish party has of late become so formidable, that the native ..."
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