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covers the waterfront

covers the waterfront is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cover the waterfront.

Meaning of cover the waterfront

Verb

cover the waterfront (third-person singular simple present covers the waterfront, present participle covering the waterfront, simple past and past participle covered the waterfront)

  1. To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.
    • But on the other hand, we continue to see huge sales of teacher-oriented textbooks that cover the waterfront of the major facts, laws, and theories in each and every domain of science.1975, J. W. George Ivany, Today's Science

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What is covers the waterfront the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Covers the waterfront is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cover the waterfront.

Words near covers the waterfront in the dictionary

  1. covers one's tracks
  2. covers oneself in glory
  3. covers shorts
  4. covers someone's ass
  5. covers the buckle
  6. covers the waterfront
  7. covers up
  8. coversand
  9. coversands
  10. coversed cosine
  11. coversed cosines

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