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-wards
- variant of -ward:
towards; afterwards.
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Origin of -wards1
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She still wants indentured servants—excuse me, wards—to run the hospital for her, and she still wants power over all of them.
Assertions of dominance over the wards, Dr. Edwards, and the other officers are pretty much all she has left.
The likes of Coffman are “probably” already halfway wards of the state anyhow.
The children teased my parents about their budding romance and my parents, in turn, fell in love with their tiny wards.
The focus was on health care workers treating people in the isolation wards.
Yet what an angry, disgusted woman I was when I went over this road before, lawsuit-wards, so to speak.
Many of the Royalists had fled to the hospitals, where, in the wards of infection, they shared the beds of the dead and the dying.
There is to be no sovereign power, great or small, other than American, and tribal wards are to supersede dattoships.
And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple.
In his capacity of Indian agent Walter Lowell often had occasion to scan the business deals of his more progressive wards.
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