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Definition of Parlayed
1. parlay [v] - See also: parlay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlayed
Literary usage of Parlayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing (1988)
"Though she has since left the station, Ms. Chin has parlayed her experience there
into a free-lance business, editing national stories for other stations ..."
2. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"I could hardly believe that such a quantity could be parlayed into 15400 marks,
or about $700, but that is what he told me and what I dutifully recorded. ..."
3. The Politics of Law and Order: A History of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr, 1918 by David Clay Large (1980)
"... could have done much to further a kind of German "Southern Strategy," according
to which rightist Bavarians might have parlayed their successes south of ..."
4. Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist by June Z. Fullmer (2000)
"... and operated a great factory in Tipton which specialized in the manufacture
of soap—a meeting that both men quickly parlayed into a warm association. ..."
5. Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds by George Black (1993)
"... for example, parlayed their earnings into a contracting and construction
business that made them the richest men in Kurdistan. While the government was ..."
6. Confucian Feminist: Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978) by Baosun Zeng, Thomas L. Kennedy (2002)
"After 1950, while on Taiwan, she parlayed her role as an international spokesperson
for Christianity and China's Nationalist government and her tireless ..."
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