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patronizes

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Third person singular of patronize

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Like Guzmán, Barrera patronizes restaurants by strolling in and having his men confiscate the other diners' phones, locking the place down until he finishes eating.

Laurie Metcalf plays the head doctor, Jenna James, a wannabe fecal-research luminary who helplessly patronizes her nurses, DiDi (Niecy Nash, the world's most skillful underplayer) and the needy, bossy Dawn Alex Borsteinn).

He never patronizes you or shows off at your expense.

"Molotov's is not really Google Glass country," Brian Parks, a thirty-two-year-old who patronizes the bar but wasn't there that night, told a local news station.

Karachi, a city of as many as eighteen million people — Hindus, Christians, Zoroastrians (called Parsis), and Muslims (Shia, Sunnis, Ismaelis, and various Sufi-inspired sects to name a few) — patronizes a saint, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, to keep them safe from the sea; rock bands play, and there is a centuries-old tradition of poetry slams, called Mushairas.

She not only bakes low-fat cookies, she patronizes American designers who sometimes manufacture their clothes in our own garment districts, with union labor, rather than you know where.

At the Guy's Frenchy's stores that Kate patronizes, not much of the inventory is tattered or stained, although all of it is wrinkled.

Yet Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul have been on a tear recently, insisting that focussing on reproductive rights patronizes women.

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Who patronizes such an oddball spot?

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I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.

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