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Weet


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Wet.
  • (v. i.) To know; to wit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Akers also spoke of the progress of the Weeting phone-hacking inquiry, agreeing with the characterisation put to her by Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, that she was "closer to the finishing line than the starting gun".
  • (2) Most of the evidence that officers of the Yard's Operation Weeting are studying deals with the News of the World's activity during 2005 and 2006, by which time Brooks had left the paper to edit the Sun.
  • (3) The arrests represent the third alleged phone hacking conspiracy identified by Scotland Yard since Operation Weeting began in 2010.
  • (4) A similar review by Durham Police was carried out into the phone hacking investigation, Operation Weeting, which identified a lack of coordination in the way victims were being approached and spoken to.
  • (5) "The arrests were made at approximately 0600 hours by officers from Operation Elveden which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the MPS inquiry into the phone-hacking of voicemail boxes.
  • (6) The police argued in court that, although there had been some failures, Operation Weeting had provided an adequate remedy and there was no case for a judicial review.
  • (7) Akers also said there were a total of 6,349 potential victims in various evidence collated by the Weeting team, although only a small proportion of these could be identified as likely phone-hacking victims.
  • (8) Operation Weeting, they say, is specific to the activities of disgraced private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and his attempts to access voicemail messages, and therefore a new inquiry may be required.
  • (9) He is the sixth person to be arrested by the Weeting team.
  • (10) Operation Weeting, which is responsible for Tuesday's arrests, is the third investigation into hacking run by Scotland Yard.
  • (11) This step came after executives who had joined NI more recently discovered its existence and sent it to the Operation Weeting team investigating News of the World phone hacking.
  • (12) Operation Elveden, which runs alongside the Met's Operation Weeting team, was launched as the phone-hacking scandal deepened last July.
  • (13) Foskett explained that he was reversing the earlier refusal to allow the claimants to pursue a judicial review because the fresh police investigation into the scandal, Operation Weeting, had produced significant new evidence to support their claims.
  • (14) In July this year, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, the senior detective in charge of the Operating Weeting inquiry into phone hacking said there were just under 4,000 victims identified at that time by officers.
  • (15) It is running in parallel with the Met's phone-hacking investigation, Operation Weeting.
  • (16) Operation Weeting is focused on the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for hacking voicemail in January 2007.
  • (17) In lumbar case a two ways procedure in 3 weetes space permitted complete removal, a monoparesia and sphincters troubles, regressive spontaneously in 5 months, complicated first performed laminectomy.
  • (18) The four were all arrested by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting inquiry into alleged phone-hacking.
  • (19) Morgan was interviewed under caution in December 2013 officers working on Operation Weeting.
  • (20) The Metropolitan police confirmed on Friday: “On 23 July following an investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World, detectives from Op Weeting submitted a file to the CPS for their consideration.” The CPS did not specify under which law it would consider charges.

Wept


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Weep
  • () imp. & p. p. of Weep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week, he wept as he signed an executive order on gun control .
  • (2) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
  • (3) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
  • (4) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
  • (5) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
  • (6) She wept for another hour before she turned to face me.
  • (7) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
  • (8) In the unsaddling area she wept uncontrollably and hugged her mother, boyfriend and her mentor and fellow team member Carl Hester, who came fifth here.
  • (9) Both Bob and Maureen bowed their heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from the court clerk.
  • (10) Mothers appeared and wept for lost sons and daughters.
  • (11) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
  • (12) He wept openly while being interviewed pitch-side by the same TV Globo reporter (Tino Marcos) who in 2010 looked embarrassed when the keeper started choking on his own tears when prompted to discuss his fluffed attempt to punch a Wesley Sneijder cross which led to the winning goal.
  • (13) The day after the ruling, celebrity chef Paula Deen went on the Today show and wept over accusations of racial and sexual harassment that are destroying her empire.
  • (14) Bhutto's supporters at the hospital wept, smashed the glass doors and started fires around the hospital periphery.
  • (15) So what if Júlio César wept after flying like a bird and saving two penalties?
  • (16) Gary Glitter wept in the dock as he blamed a collapsing career, financial troubles and being in a “bad place” for his decision to download images of men sexually abusing young children on to his computer.
  • (17) "I couldn't stop crying when the final whistle went," wept their centre-half Sam Allardyce.
  • (18) The inscription at the foot of the cathedral's bell tower reads: "When He beheld the city, He wept over it.
  • (19) Earlier, during the bail hearing's third day, Pistorous wept as the defence advocate Barry Roux summed up his case.
  • (20) Some of the senators wept at her story, she said, and then later voted against her.

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